We spend so much time on NameHero giving advice on which code to add to WordPress. It occurs to me that we haven’t given an explanation so far, about the most common mechanism in WordPress for modifications – actions and filters. So this is a quick introduction to them, why they’re useful, and two examples […]
When Should You Use A Page Builder For Your Site?
If you’re a newbie to web hosting, you might have seen services on certain web hosts, offering “page builders” to create your new site. Or perhaps you’ve heard of products like “Wix”, which allow you to host your site on their domain, and which allow you to quickly build out site elements like contact forms, […]
Can Joomla Compete With WordPress?
If you’re thinking of starting a website, and have done a bit of research, two names quickly come to the fore – Joomla! and WordPress. They’re both CMSs (Content Management Systems), free and open source, and are available on all web hosting platforms. If your host is using cPanel, the in-built plugin Softalicious will already […]
How To Add “Target Blank” To Your Links In WordPress
A few months ago, I was auditing my site and jettisoning some of the additional code and scripts that were loading, slowing things down, and causing conflicts. One of these was a little external Javascript file that was parsing some of my links and adding target=”_blank” to them, to make the links open in a […]
3 Benefits of a Redirect Plugin in WordPress
When you’ve had a website for long enough, you start to get all kinds of weird requests for non-existent URLs. Sometimes, you might be forced to unpublish a post for one reason or another, and you need to do something with the incoming traffic. God forbid, if you need to change a post’s or a […]
The Most Basic Way To Increase Your Site Branding
Over the years, Google’s algorithms have placed an increasing focus on “site authority”. It all started off with their “PageRank” metric, and even though Google has now discontinued their public data on PageRank, they’ve openly proclaimed that it still plays a role. Last year, the famous “Medic” update made SEOs all over the world lose […]
3 Outdated “Best Practices” For Your Site
As web designs constantly evolve, new trends take hold for a while, and then vanish. Over a span of 12 years, my own site has undergone many redesigns – each of which represented a different phase of web evolution. And it’s not just the outward appearance that’s subject to these trends. Many different backend processes […]
Should You Use Relative Internal Links in WordPress?
Every now and then, an idea comes along that seems good, but when you think about it a little more, the flaws become apparent. This happened when I thought of moving my CDN to something other than Cloudflare, but then the disadvantages became suddenly apparent once I tried it. But there are other, more disruptive […]
What Does The New cPanel Pricing Mean For The Hosting Industry?
On the 27th of June 2019, cPanel released a bombshell report that it’s dramatically increasing the cost of its licenses, and changing the entire licensing model itself. This wasn’t just a regular price increase. Plex has had occasional price hikes, but nothing unmanageable. The new cPanel pricing on the other hand, make it completely unaffordable […]
WinSCP – An Easy And Free FTP Client
Transferring files to and from your hosting account is a big part of managing your website. Even though we have tools these days that reduce the need, it’s still important. For example, you can install WordPress using cPanel using the Softaculous app, but you often need to modify your .htaccess or robots.txt file to optimize […]