I continue to grapple with the consequences of uninstalling Jetpack on my WordPress website. Earlier, I’d written about how I needed to find an alternative contact form solution to replace the one that Jetpack provided. Now, there’s one more piece of functionality that I’m sure many people use, and which Jetpack provides for free – […]
Replacing The Jetpack Contact Form In WordPress
Last week, I wrote about how I finally uninstalled Jetpack from WordPress. The plugin was too large, had constant updates, utilized external services, and was generally getting too unwieldy. I made the case that it was better to have smaller, specialized plugins instead of a single large one. It helps with site stability by removing […]
Should You Use the Default WordPress Sitemap?
In version 5.5, WordPress finally announced that it would automatically generate XML sitemaps for the website. Sitemaps have been used for years to inform search engines about pages on your site. Without that, there would be no way for a crawler to discover all the pages unless they were linked to by others. And if […]
Updating Your Website for The New Year: Remember These
We’re approaching the end of the year, and websites need to start preparing for the different ways this can impact their appearance in the search results. For example, my site promotes NameHero services and compares hosting solutions with one another. A large amount of my traffic comes from people using search terms with the year […]
Why I Finally Uninstalled Jetpack From WordPress
I’ve been a faithful Jetpack user for years. I’ve watched as Automatic constantly brought in new features and functionalities, making it ever larger. I’ve had my share of problems with deactivating the REST API and the XMLRPC functionality, while trying to keep Jetpack working. Yesterday however, I took the plunge and uninstalled Jetpack from my […]
Five Important cPanel Tools You Need To Be Familiar With
As a beginner, cPanel can be pretty confusing. The tool has evolved to be a swiss army knife for web hosting management. Over the years, it’s evolved to have so many options, that it can intimidate those new to cPanel. On top of that, if you add the plugins inserted hosting providers, it can get […]
Do You Need A Dedicated IP For Your Website? (Hint: No)
If you look at NameHero’s shared hosting packages, you see that none of them offer a dedicated IP address. Some web hosts do provide this even on shared hosting, so it’s understandable if wonder whether or not this has an impact on your search rankings. There’s been a lot of confusion around this point, and […]
Why Amazon Lightsail Is Bad for Web Hosting Customers
Amazon would like nothing more than to claim yet another marketplace for itself. Among the many in which they’re already the biggest fish, they’ve come to dominate the hosting infrastructure space with AWS. But providing the infrastructure to allow for web hosting isn’t the same as providing actual web hosting. And here I fear, is […]
How Is LiteSpeed Caching Different From Cloudflare Caching
CDN providers are getting into the caching game. They’re realizing that the days of restricting caching to static content are over. Now many of them are exploring ways to take entire HTML pages and store them on EDGE servers. Cloudflare recently took an official step towards this goal when it introduced its “Automatic Platform Optimization” […]
Why Cloudflare Browser Insights Isn’t Ready (Just Yet)
When Cloudflare announced its own analytics solution nicknamed “Browser Insights”, I was very excited to try it out, along with thousands of other people who have come to enjoy Cloudflare’s services. So I took it for a test spin, and it shows a lot of promise. The interface is amazing, and allows one to easily […]