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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!
WordPress is a curious combination of the static and the dynamic. The overwhelming majority of WordPress pages are static – they hardly ever change. On the other hand, the entire architecture of the CMS is based on a dynamic database. Pages are generated from scratch each time a request is made. It seems a bit […]
I woke up this morning to see the following message from Google in my e-mail inbox: I wasn’t surprised by this of course. In fact, I’ve been expecting this. Google has been warning us for a long time that they’re removing support for noindex in robots.txt. So if you’ve been relying on this to prevent […]
Comments and discussions on a website can be tricky, and there are many solutions to this. One of these is Facebook comments. I’m seeing more and more sites implement Facebook comments, and it usually pains me to see them. There are so many disadvantages to using Facebook comments, that literally anything else would be a […]
With the number of options available to website owners these days, I don’t blame them if they suffer from a bit of choice paralysis:). Along with all the features available on different hosting products, they also need to figure out the details of an important part of their security – namely SSL. Since last year, […]
WordPress’s origins as a content management system, have often clashed with its recent metamorphosis into a site builder. One of these conflicts was the awkward way of inserting code into the editor. Because it started out as a way of adding pure content via the WYSIWYG editor, it was considered unnecessary for HTML or Javascript […]
The Jetpack plugin is one of the most staple plugins on any WordPress installation. Ever since its release in 2011, it’s been a runaway hit with millions upon millions of downloads. It’s developed and maintained by Automaticc themselves, and so doesn’t run into any trust issues. I’ve been a staunch advocate of Jetpack for years […]
Unlike other hosting providers, NameHero offers object caching on your website for free. This is due to our use of the LiteSpeed web server, and the LiteSpeed caching plugin. Other hosts typically utilize Apache, which doesn’t have such functionality out of the box. As a result, the object caching is an additional module that you […]
When designing websites for mobile devices, you’ll keep finding unusual use cases that you didn’t plan for. No matter how responsive your theme is, you’ll need to decide how to handle a variety of scenarios. Tables are one example. I’ve long struggled with the conundrum of how to display them on mobile devices. Should responsive […]
One of the challenges in creating a content heavy website, is about retaining your visitors. When you have a lot of posts, chances are that a reader will be interested in more than just the current article. Of course, a well-crafted piece of content will have internal links to all parts of your site, and […]
I’m a big fan of responsive WordPress themes – ones that have it built in right from the start. In fact, I’d previously written about how we need to stop using separate themes for mobiles, and instead maintain the same code base for all devices. Unfortunately, sometimes our themes don’t give us that luxury and […]