WordPress has a number of “hooks” that you can use to insert code into different parts of the theme. These hooks remove the need to manually modify the theme files. Using this, we can do all kinds of cool things like inserting custom content into the header, the title, and the footer. For example, I’d […]
Should You Enable Comments On Your Website?
The past few years have seen a dramatic change in the way conversations evolve around web articles. At first, before social media, the only avenue was the comments section underneath the article. Then much of the conversation began to revolve around the distribution channels – like Facebook comments. If you want to disable or enable […]
How To Rewrite Your WordPress URLs To Point To A CDN
Subscribing to a CDN is just half the battle. The next challenge is finding a way to rewrite the URLs of all your static assets to the new CDN URL. In this article, I’ll share the best plugin I’ve found for the job, and why other solutions don’t work. Note that you don’t need to […]
NameHero’s Official YouTube Channel Crosses 1,000,000+ Views
I’m proud to announce we’ve crossed an important milestone: our Official YouTube Channel has officially reached 1,000,000+ Views! Have you subscribed yet? If you’ve followed our Blog it’s likely you’ve noticed how much I enjoy doing video tutorials. Prior to NameHero I operated an Internet Marketing discussion forum where we’d hold live seminars across the […]
Patch WordPress Without Upgrading Using NameHero
It’s no secret that people don’t upgrade WordPress, even when they should. We usually put this down to laziness or ignorance, but believe it or not, there are sometimes valid reasons to hold off on the upgrade. Valid business reasons. But of course, that comes at a price. And sometimes that price is higher than […]
2 Approaches To Keep WordPress Free Of Malware
As your website becomes more popular, it becomes a higher priority target for hackers. You might not have too much to lose at the beginning of a business’s lifecycle, but when it starts generating revenue, the costs of being hacked increase dramatically. There are several ways in which your website can be compromised like: Unauthorized […]
Can You Still Make Money With Reseller Hosting In 2019?
I was recently asked by a potential client if Reselling Web Hosting is still as lucrative as I’ve posted about previously. This is a very interesting question as two years ago almost to this day, I published another article on Where I See The Web Hosting Industry In Five Years. Given we’re ~50% past this […]
How To Register A Domain Name For Your Child
My brother and I were talking this week and he brought up a great question: do you register the domain name of your kids? This immediately made me think back to 1998 when I started working online. My first “dot com” was prowebresources.com and I paid $75 for it at Network Solutions. During this time, […]
How To Prevent Bots From Hammering Your Login Page
At some point in your site’s journey, you become important enough to start getting hit by spambots. I don’t know exactly what the limit is, but it always happens. This can take many forms – rogue crawlers, comment spam, and login spam. Of these three, by far the last one is the most annoying. You […]
Why AMP Pages Might Be A Bad Idea For Your Site
We all have experience with AMP pages, whether you realize it or not. Google is trying to make the web a more uniform experience, where the only distinction between website is the content – not the speed, or ads, or any of the other quirks that normally hinder the experience of a website. As a […]
