I got started building NameHero as I needed a platform where I could manage all my domain names I had purchased as investments in one place. Since the late 90s I’ve been investing in .coms that I felt are of value. Just like physical real estate, .com values have continued to increase year-after-year and I […]
How To Use A Postback URL To Get Email Notifications
Managing a site requires you to keep constant track of stuff. How many page visits are you getting on your landing pages? What’s the bounce rate? Is your site down? And many, many more parameters. These are relatively simple to track via analytics software, because they occur on your site. You can set up notifications […]
Upgrading To PHP 7.2 And Using Other PHP Versions
At the end of 2018, PHP 5.6 officially quit receiving security updates along with PHP 7.0. Towards the end of quarter 4, our team worked around the clock to ensure our entire infrastructure was prepared for this change. I’m proud to announce that PHP 7.2 is now the default PHP version across our entire network! […]
How To Clean WordPress Of Jetpack Junk Code
I love Jetpack. It’s a plugin with a ton of functionality. Recently Automattic – the company behind Jetpack – has been improving its utility, allowing users to access features that previously required purchasing separate plans. Such as CDNs for WordPress related JS and CSS, and fast image hosting from EDGE servers across the globe. They […]
How To Display The “Last Modified” Date On Posts
Article freshness is an important aspect of maintaining a site. Too many of them focus on churning out new content, without a care for updating old posts and pages. Some content of course, is evergreen. “How to” articles are a great example. You’ll find a whole bunch of them here on the NameHero blog! But […]
3 Ways To Force Whitespace In The WordPress Editor
A few days ago, I had to solve a weird problem with formatting in WordPress. I use a table plugin that automatically expands the table columns to fit the widest content. However, I wasn’t happy with where it was breaking a sentence and wanted to increase the table column. So I decided to put some […]
Where To Put Custom CSS In WordPress Without A Plugin
The default way in WordPress to include custom CSS is to use the “Additional CSS” feature in the theme customizer under “Appearance” in the dashboard like this: While this is an easy and convenient way to insert additional CSS for your theme, it’s fatally flawed because the system uses a GET request for the CSS, […]
How To Remove The Image Border In WordPress Widgets
For one of the most popular web page building platforms in existence, WordPress can get pretty frustrating with basic stuff. I guess most of that is due to its organic growth from a blogging platform, to a full-fledged design tool. Sometimes we need to fix basic stuff that you’d imagine would be its bread and […]
How To Add Custom Image Dimensions To WordPress Dropdowns
For some of us who write a lot on WordPress, a few extra seconds shaved off a routine task can be huge, especially when we have to repeat those things multiple times in a single post. For example, sizing images is a big one. Using Custom Image Dimensions in WordPress Every website’s layout is different, […]
How To Safely Disable XMLRPC In WordPress (While Keeping Jetpack)
One day I got a bunch of notifications from my WordPress security plugin that some IP addresses were blocked because of multiple incorrect login attempts. By itself, this is nothing to wonder at – after all, WordPress is the platform most targeted by hackers simply because it’s so popular. What was surprising, was that it […]