Category: WordPress

In WordPress, when users leave comments on your blog posts, they are often asked to provide their name, email address, and website. By default, WordPress includes a checkbox labeled “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” This checkbox allows users to have their information saved in cookies,…

WordPress can be a gift out of the box. WordPress provides a pre-structured website set up in a search-engine-friendly way, you have loads of excellent template designs to get you up and moving fast, and there are endless ways of customizing your installation. We have plenty of customers that run WordPress, and almost immediately, their…

Since WordPress 5.2, there is a built-in feature that detects when a plugin or theme causes a fatal error on your site and notifies you with this automated “error e-mail”. We have all seen the e-mails, and nothing freaks folks out more than seeing this sort of message, usually regarding a plugin or two. However,…

Back in the good ol’ days, it was cool to have the “website” field in your WordPress comment form. Although it’s not a required field, this is a sure-fire recipe for spam, not to mention it is just one more thing a user must think about filling out to engage with your content. So, these…

Let’s talk about WordPress and how to combat the slow website speeds that come with it. Sure, plugins, JavaScript, heavy theme files, and other usability issues play a factor. But we aren’t going to go there today; today, we will talk about the built-in WordPress Cron Jobs, discuss what they do, and then show you…

Why is it that those tiny red notification bubbles indicating WordPress plugin updates are available freak us out so much? In my business, we have provided website maintenance services to thousands of WordPress websites. We stand firm on our stance to only update WordPress plugins when there is a significant security loophole to patch or…

Let’s talk about the honest answer to why legitimate web developers hate WordPress. It may not technically be about WordPress itself but more about the stigma and headache surrounding the platform. The why. I have been working as a business owner and web developer since 2006, and I vividly remember in my education days this…

Contact form 7 is the most developer-friendly WordPress plugin for controlling and managing your WordPress website forms. By default, when you create a new web form, the user-submitted form contents are delivered to you via plainly formatted text or an HTML formatted email. So, what’s the problem? Well, Contact Form 7 leaves it up to…

Try to keep cool and get ready to forgive, forget and move on — keep this mindset when your website gets hacked. WordPress hacking is widespread, and it can be a scary episode if this is your first time going through the experience. Why Me? Why My Website? First, keep in mind that 99% of…