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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!
A few months ago, I was auditing my site and jettisoning some of the additional code and scripts that were loading, slowing things down, and causing conflicts. One of these was a little external Javascript file that was parsing some of my links and adding target=”_blank” to them, to make the links open in a […]
Over the years, Google’s algorithms have placed an increasing focus on “site authority”. It all started off with their “PageRank” metric, and even though Google has now discontinued their public data on PageRank, they’ve openly proclaimed that it still plays a role. Last year, the famous “Medic” update made SEOs all over the world lose […]
As web designs constantly evolve, new trends take hold for a while, and then vanish. Over a span of 12 years, my own site has undergone many redesigns – each of which represented a different phase of web evolution. And it’s not just the outward appearance that’s subject to these trends. Many different backend processes […]
Every now and then, an idea comes along that seems good, but when you think about it a little more, the flaws become apparent. This happened when I thought of moving my CDN to something other than Cloudflare, but then the disadvantages became suddenly apparent once I tried it. But there are other, more disruptive […]
I’ve written before about the insufficiency of 3rd party comment systems like Facebook, and recommended that you stick with the default, native WordPress comment system. Even though there are plugins for comments that make use of your own database, you never know if they’re going to stick around for long or be updated to comply […]
These days I’m seeing more and more sites ditch the left or right sidebar that’s such a staple of website design. And indeed, how many of us include a sidebar merely by habit? Because we saw it somewhere else? When making the decision to keep or remove the sidebar, we also need to rely on […]
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, […]