Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
Content hygiene refers to the constant maintenance of posts and pages on your site. As time goes by, your site begins to accumulate content that makes it “dated”. Facts that were once true, are no longer so. Comparisons that used to be valid, could do with a refresh. Opinions that seemed correct at the time, […]
As of this writing, Google is currently rewriting the title tag of the white house website to indicate that Joe Biden is the Vice-President instead of the President: In other words, without the consent, or knowledge of the website in question, Google is blatantly lying about what the site contains. Those of us who track […]
In July 2021, WordPress 5.8 was released with a powerful new feature – the block pattern directory. It’s an addition to WordPress’s existing library of themes and plugins and is sure to be a huge asset for web developers. I must admit, I didn’t see the potential for block patterns until I took a look […]
Debugging in WordPress is annoying. It’s turned off by default, and there’s no GUI for viewing the errors. Turning it on requires you to add lines to the wp-config.php file – something not everyone is comfortable doing, particularly given that it’s so sensitive and can easily destroy your entire site if you’re not careful. As […]
All website owners are SEOs, whether they know it or not. Those of us who have been running websites ever since we started working have seen how our content models evolve with time. Website design has changed so much as well! But the promise of the web was always this – every business is on […]
On the 26th of July, 2021, the well-known plugin Autoptimized released a new update that allows for deferring in-line JavaScript. Here’s the new option as seen in the settings screen: This new ability, lets you final defer inline JavaScript so that it doesn’t mess up your page load times. But should you enable it? And […]
On the 26th of July 2021, Google announced that it would be rolling out something called the “Link Spam Update” over the next two weeks. Unlike most core updates, however, this time Google is actually asking website owners to change their behavior – namely add rel=”sponsored” to their affiliate and guest post links. Last year, […]
Have you ever come across a website that’s almost an exact duplicate of yours? It can be a somewhat disorienting experience! It seems incredible that a 3rd party would take your content and claim it as its own without attribution. They even copy the images! These people are called “scrapers”, and site scraping can be […]
I think a lot about tables in content. Despite being cast away in favor of things like GridLayouts for website design, they’re still invaluable for doing their primary job – displaying data in a structured manner. And because I use a lot of data myself on my site, I’m always looking for ways to make […]
When you have a large site, maintenance can be a hassle. You might have multiple authors and thousands of comments to sift through, on top of all the regular work like updating plugins, etc. One solution that many organizations take, is to outsource the comment moderation. Of all the possibly risky areas of a site, […]