Posts Tagged ‘updates’
Celebrating more than 10 years of WordPress maintenance and support
3,717 days! Almost every day since switching from building new WordPress sites to maintaining, refurbishing, and updating old ones, I’ve logged into my InfiniteWP console and backed up and updated all my maintenance clients’ websites. The reason I chose IWP all those years ago is that it is self-hosted and doesn’t have per-site charges. There…
Read MoreWhy every website needs a 50,000 mile checkup
Hey, if WordPress is so great why do so many web developers offer maintenance plans? Is WordPress really that insecure? Fragile? Hackable? No! A well-built WordPress site on a good hosting plan is surprisingly secure. So… why should you still get a good WordPress maintenance plan? Here’s how I explain things to my clients: WordPress…
Read MoreNote to self: converting a site to Google Analytics 4
This post includes the steps for converting a site from Google Analytics 3 (GA3) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4.) I’m posting it so I’ll be able to find it myself, but it may be helpful for others as well. If I find further information about making the switch I’ll try to update this post. Earlier…
Read MoreDon’t tell anyone but we’re beta testing daily backups and WordPress software updates for all maintenance clients…
We’ve been making weekly backups and software updates for our maintenance clients for a very long time. Since sometime back in 2012. We started officially in late 2013 or early 2014. We always watch for malware and software vulnerabilities and run updates as soon as developers release fixes. When we upgrading our hardware and software earlier…
Read MoreRedesigned Greener Living Solutions – Landscape Architect and Residential Construction
It’s great working with clients who spend all day thinking about design. We were first asked to rebuild the Greener Living Website when browsing the web on phones and tablets was still almost a novelty. Because we’ve got an ongoing maintenance agreement with them we’ve had several opportunities to adjust and tune the site in…
Read MoreMoving websites on shared hosting is easy, moving email on shared hosting is hard so…
This post is about choosing a 3rd party to host your company’s email instead of using the free email service that comes with almost all shared hosting plans. I got a call on Friday from a former client, a small, highly-technical business with a handful of very large, old-school Fortune 100 customers. Their site and…
Read MoreUpdate for December 2018: Signs of Naughty and Nice Websites
Photo by kevin dooley Two lists with a seasonal flair from web security provider Sucuri! “Naughty” features include outdated software, resused passwords, every user is an Administrator, and no automatic backups. They also point out that if you’ve got more than one website it’s a security risk if they’re all kept in the same folders…
Read MoreWordPress 5.0 will be cool, but waiting a week for WordPress 5.0.1 will be worth it
The new Gutenberg blog editor is just one of the nice improvements that comes with WordPress 5.0. It’s a very big change though. And while it’s been tested by thousands of users they were still making bug fixes and feature changes almost up to the last minute. That might be par for the course, but in…
Read MoreOnce you get your website secure it’s easy to keep it secure!
It’s a mistake to say “WordPress is insecure.” Yes, it may have once been insecure but then Toyota’s cars once had motorcycle engines! A lot’s changed. David Hayes recently said this very clearly. It is very common for people who know very little about WordPress to say that it’s insecure. And there’s some reasons from history that this diffuse…
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