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The war on HTTP has been won. With Google now enforcing HTTPS on all sites, under penalty of a ranking hammer, most serious web admins have migrated their sites to SSL. This has also been helped along by two things. First, Chrome now treats non-https sites as dangerous, scaring users into expecting SSL protection at […]
For all its customizability, WordPress made it quite difficult to change appearances right until the end of 2016. Even now, articles all over the web before this date give outdated advice on how to modify WordPress’s CSS, and suggest all kinds of complicated solutions like creating special customizers etc (I’m looking at you WPMU DEV!). […]
WordPress was built for writing “normal” articles (Until Gutenberg that is!). It’s never been able to properly format code in posts. A bunch of problems crop up when trying to insert code into WordPress like: Losing indentation Incorrect HTML encoding Inability to write HTML code without breaking the editor In this tutorial, I’m going to […]
You can’t call yourself a true WordPress expert until you’ve built at least one plugin of your own. Perhaps you want to distribute it for use on the WordPress plugin repository, or maybe you prefer an approach like hosting it on GitHub. Or you might even develop a plugin just for one site! Something that’s […]
I’ve struggled with spam comments for years on my personal blog. When I first started blogging in 2006, I’d wake up in the morning with a ton of spam messages that had slipped through traditional spam solutions like Akismet. The useless traffic was killing my site speed, and I had to implement all kinds of […]
Having trouble accessing your website? Perhaps you can access it on your computer by your friend can’t? If you’ve checked for an IP block and still can’t access, it’s possible you have some DNS issues. DNS issues can be extremely frustrating and they can create some pretty big problems for your website. The good news […]
The original design of WordPress was for posts and pages with text and image-based content. It didn’t really envision that people would want to create complex HTML inside their content. Of course, we have the “Text” or “HTML” tab into which we can directly write HTML code, but it isn’t ideal. For one thing, the […]
Sometimes you just need to change a word or a string of characters throughout your WordPress installation. And that text isn’t always in the post content. Most of the information of WordPress resides in the database in hundreds of fields and a dozen tables. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to find and replace […]
Updated: 7/12/2023 We often get asked in our pre-sale queries what is the best way to host more than one website in an account. All of our basic web hosting packages, except for the Starter Cloud, allow the ability to host more than one website: As you notice above, the Plus Cloud allows hosting for […]
In a previous article, I’d shown you how to connect to your MySQL WordPress database remotely through the HeidiSQL program. Now if you need to take a backup, it’s extremely easy. Just open your database in HeidiSQL, right-click the database you want and export as SQL. Problem solved! However, this is purely a GUI interface. […]