It can happen to anyone. Despite your best efforts your WordPress website can become compromised. Once you recover the content of your website and restore its proper functionality, here are a couple of other important things to check for to protect yourself from recurring attacks. Install a security plugin If you have not done so … Read more
One of the last major visible updates to WordPress introduced Gutenberg, the new visual block editor. The growth of visual editing tools like Wix, SquareSpace, and Elementor highlighted the age and ineffectiveness of the default WYSWIG editor, and the WordPress team knew it had to adapt. Gutenberg will have it’s fifth birthday later this year, … Read more
When choosing a new car, we focus a lot on finding the paint color we like and seat covers that fit our style. Everyone just assumes that the car is going to come with a functioning engine, air bags, suspension, onboard entertainment system etc. The same philosophy is often applied to building a new website … Read more
What is a page builder? A WordPress page builder is a tool that allows you to create a page or a post on your site without needing to know any HTML code. There are many options available to you. Choosing the one that suits you best will make the editing experience more pleasant and encourage … Read more
Page/Post Scheduling Most WordPress users are aware of the ability to preview new pages and posts, and save them as a draft until you are ready to publish. But on more than one occasion I’ve been surprised to find that some of our content creating customers don’t realize WordPress has the built in ability to … Read more
With cold winter weather in full swing and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought I’d write about the WordPress plugins that make web developer nerds like us feel warm and fuzzy inside! WordFence Security In our opinion (and we’ve been doing this for 20+ years now), WordFence is the single best method to … Read more
You have probably seen this term a lot if you are researching website options for your company or organization. Most of the choices at your disposal fall in one of two categories: “self hosted” and “builder” based. Your builders would be Wix, Weebly, Squarespace etc. All of these platforms are hosted and run by the … Read more
What is UX design? UX comes from User Experience. In simple words it is the way in which people interact with a website. The goal of UX design is to make sure that the user has a positive and intuitive experience when using a product or service. A positive user experience can lead to higher … Read more
If you have a WordPress site you undoubtedly have a number of plugins installed on the site. Over time the number can build up and you start to lose track of what you have, forget the reason the plugin was there in the first place and things begin to complicate. Your WordPress Dashboard starts to … Read more
Most people think that a Website Backup is like Flood Insurance – something you should probably do to protect yourself from a large scale (and extremely unlikely) disaster but do not want to pay a monthly fee for. I want to challenge both statements – site backups serve many more purposes and you do not … Read more