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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
Quality customer support in web hosting is expensive to provide. And if you’re with a provider like NameHero that takes customer care very seriously, you’ll notice that there are plenty of cheaper web hosts out there. You might even ask yourself “Is it worth it?”. In this article, I’ll explain how customer support in web […]
Just because we have a new technology, doesn’t mean we all need to scramble on to it. Or more precisely, we should try out everything, and choose to keep what works. Discard the rest. For years now, Google has been pushing AMP for websites to display on mobile phones. And for years, I signed up […]
Because of how widespread WordPress is, most web hosts offer “WordPress Hosting” in addition to their normal web hosting packages. This trend seems to have really taken off in the past few years and has forced many hosting providers to also display “WordPress Hosting” on their website. But what does this mean? Is WordPress hosting […]
The Starter Cloud is the most basic web hosting package from NameHero. Make no mistake – while it’s the cheapest of the NameHero plans, it’s super fast thanks to the LiteSpeed web server that provides in-built server caching. That’s something no other web host provides for basic plans – they usually reserve this functionality for […]
I’d written earlier about how to load the Google Tag Manager only on specific pages, and I’d mentioned there that we could ensure that certain tags would only fire when the user was or wasn’t logged into the CMS. A great use-case scenario for this is when we don’t want our Google Analytics code to […]
When WordPress 5.2 released on 7th May 2019, it included the new “wp_body_open” action, which allowed to insert arbitrary code into the body section of WordPress. One of the best uses of this new functionality was inserting Google Tag Manager (GTM) code, because Google recommends placing it in the body and not the header or […]
If you search for any guide on the Internet on the “proper” way to include CSS in WordPress, you’ll get a lot of advice telling you to hook into the “wp_enqueue_scripts” function and attach your external CSS file from there. Heck, I myself have explained how to do this in an earlier tutorial! This advice […]
It’s always seemed a bit weird to me that WordPress doesn’t extend its taxonomy system to posts. While with posts, you can make use of the extensive category/tag infrastructure and manipulate them in a variety of ways, this same facility doesn’t apply to pages. As a result, we lose out on a lot of conveniences. […]
In the early 2000s, heading into the first decade, there were a few common pieces of wisdom that everyone accepted when it came to speeding up your site for CSS, JS, and HTML: Minify EVERYTHING Combine EVERYTHING So if your site had 10 CSS files and 5 external JavaScripts, you would ultimately have just 2 […]
There are many web hosts out there who will provide you with hosting for just a few pennies per month – or occasionally even for free! While there’s a wide range of acceptable pricing for hosting, you’re not doing yourself any favors by getting it so cheap. In this article, I’ll explain the dangers of […]