Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
We get a ton of pre-sale questions here at NameHero asking us for a comparison against some of the other top brands within the web hosting industry. Rather than trying to have our sales representatives do the comparisons I try to do blog posts and videos on our YouTube channel to help our customers decide: […]
In October 2016, the guys working at WordPress decided to include a CSS customer in the theme customization options. Previously this functionality was available only to Jetpack users, and it was one of the reasons why I used to recommend Jetpack to everyone. Before this, users needed to find a 3rd party plugin for their […]
On the 6th of November, Automattic released a new version of Jetpack with an exciting new feature – “Site Acceleration”. I generally hold off for a week or so before installing a new plugin update, just to wait for any potential bugs to be worked out. But once I had it installed, I got a […]
jQuery is a staple feature of almost all websites on the web. If a site has Javascript, it probably has jQuery. Unfortunately, this success has brought some problems with it, as explained below. While there’s no easy solution, one step towards mitigating it is to load jQuery from a CDN. There are lots of tutorials […]
I’ve spent the weekend speeding up my site with Cloudflare. At the end of the day, here are my pagespeed results from Google’s Lighthouse tool: As you can see, I’ve scored in the green for everything, and I already know what I have to do to reach 100%. And all of this was due to […]
If you’ve followed our blog, you may have noticed a couple different tutorials on how to setup a WordPress staging environment: How To Setup A WordPress Staging Site How To Clone Your WordPress Website With 1 Click While both of these options work well, there is still a bit of manual work needed to push […]
WordPress’s taxonomy can be pretty confusing. First, we have the default separation between “posts” and “pages”. Then we have categories and tags. In addition, we can have custom post types which opens the door to an endless number of variations. Figuring out the interactions between the taxonomies can be tricky. For example, by default, “pages” […]
For a content platform built around articles and posts, WordPress does a pretty lousy job when it comes to displaying tables. Granted, they’re not usually part of standard articles and posts, but they add so much more to content, that there really should be a dedicated widget for them in the default editor. Perhaps it’s […]
It’s a very common for our customers to signup for web hosting and want to forward the email from their domain to their Gmail account. Many businesses want to use their domain for their email address as it looks more professional, but they only want one place to login and check their email. I understand […]
Sometimes you need to display a list of pages in a WordPress post. Perhaps you’re designing a 404 landing page and want to show the user all the pages on your site so they can navigate wherever they want. Or maybe you’re creating a knowledgebase of your site and want to create a user-friendly “sitemap” […]