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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!
While the web is supposed to function in a uniform manner regardless of where you access it from, it rarely lives up to those ideals. In the real world, pages are fast or slow depending on where you access them from. Some connections are fast, and some are slow. And while in general, closer servers […]
It’s been almost exactly one year since Automatic released Gutenberg – the new text editor on WordPress, and I’ve been using it almost continuously since then. When it first came out, I found it lacking in many respects and wrote a blog post on how annoyed I was. Since then however, a lot of things […]
A little over a month ago on the 31st of October, Google released “Site Kit” for WordPress. It blends together all of Google’s tools like Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed insights, and presents their results together in the WordPress report screen. It’s a neat idea, and I can see where they’re going with it. WordPress […]
One of the biggest benefits of NameHero is the server-based caching. This is in-built into the hosting service with the LiteSpeed web server, and delivers dramatic performance gains if you have a relatively static site like most people. Keep in mind that this is superior to the normal caching plugins for platforms like WordPress such […]
Way back towards the end of 2016, we at NameHero decided to offer free SSL certifications via a partnership with Let’s Encrypt. This was at least two years before Google pressured the rest of the web hosting industry into switching to HTTPS for hosting reasons. Like so many other things, NameHero was there well before […]
Most of the time when you get web hosting and install WordPress on it, everything works by default out of the box. But sometimes, you might try doing things a little differently – perhaps install software that isn’t standardized, for example. Or you may need to increase certain in-built PHP limits like the memory allocation, […]
Every website owner uses analytics of some sort or another to track visits to their site, and other related metrics like referrals, conversions, etc. I remember way back in 2004, using basic scripts that just provided a bare log of visitors and their referrals. And how far we’ve come from then! But we all face […]
Yesterday on the 12th of November 2019, Automattic released the latest version of WordPress – v5.3. It’s the last major release for this year and brings a bunch of improvements to the Gutenberg editor, behind the scenes features for developers, and readies WordPress for the upcoming release of PHP 7.4. Here’s the full list of […]
Late last month (October 2019), Google released “BERT” – a new algorithm update. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, and is basically a complicated way of saying that Google now understands natural search queries better than before. It’s estimated to impact more than 10% of all search queries – a massive change that […]
Google is finally bringing page speed into the mainstream Google interface. So far, we only had Google’s fuzzy statement that page speed is a factor in your Google search rankings. This has been the case for years. To support this, they’ve created lots of tools like PageSpeed insights, and even the Chrome developer tools has […]