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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!
Over the past few days, I’ve ended up migrating my site to a NameHero VPS. And in all this, I’ve found the absolute best way to test your site on the new server before you change your DNS records. The Problem Making the final switch of your DNS records is an act of faith. You […]
I’ve recently had a chance to fire up Cloudflare’s analytics once again. Almost exactly a year ago, I’d written about the now rebundled Browser Insights that Cloudflare deprecated. They’ve since consolidated their analytics into a new product – Web Analytics. And while it’s much better than the older Browser Insights, it’s not ready to replace […]
One of the downsides of no longer using sidebars is that you lose space to put stuff like “Related Posts”. But I still stick with my decision to do away with sidebars on my site – mostly because when it comes to long-form content, the sidebars vanish quickly anyway. For lasting benefits, you’ll have to […]
Updated: May 1, 2023 The All-in-One WP Migration plugin is hands down the best tool you can use to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. I used it myself a couple of days ago to transition my website to one of NameHero’s new WordPress Hosting packages, and it really is simple. We […]
A few days back, Google released an update to its search quality rater guidelines regarding controversial content. While not new, this particular section is a bit troubling. I think this can have potentially sinister implications. It instructs search raters to flag content that “may be unpleasant or uncomfortable”. With a special focus on users in […]
Like it or not, Google is the unlikely champion of website speed. By integrating CWV speed and usability metrics as ranking criteria in the SERPs, platform creators are finally starting to take the issue seriously. As a user and fan, WordPress often frustrates me with their lackadaisical approach to speed issues. For the longest time, […]
A few days back, I got this warning message in the Google search console concerning my review of NameHero on my site WP-Tweaks: This was a structured data error, which was surprising, considering I hadn’t changed any structured data for this particular page – at least nothing which could have led to this error. I’ve […]
If you’ve run a website for a while, you know that you can sometimes get emails from hackers trying to use the “password reset” button. While this shouldn’t work because they don’t have access to your email (hopefully!), it can still be annoying to sift through the spam, and in general, it causes additional workload […]
It seems obvious, but John Mueller is wrong. The recent outage of Facebook’s entire infrastructure left many businesses high and dry that relied entirely on a single marketing channel like Instagram (for instance). If anyone sold products exclusively on one of these platforms, they essentially ceased to exist for those 6 hours. Now obviously this […]
“Warming” or “Priming” a cache refers to the practice of loading a page even before a visitor comes to your site. The purpose is to fill the cache (either the server or CDN) so that when a visitor finally does hit your site, it serves them a fast cached copy instead of a slow one […]