The few people I know who own a website are pretty casual about their backup strategies. I don’t blame them – unlike us who live and breathe in the industry, most individuals have other stuff to do in their life, and don’t spend time thinking about “best practices” or “worst-case scenarios”. Nevertheless, if you or […]
Should You Purchase Plugins From CodeCanyon?
The other day I saw what I thought was a cool table plugin on CodeCanyon. Now since I personally display a lot of data on my website, tables are a particularly interesting topic for me. I’ve written about two table plugins on NameHero already, here and here, and am always on the lookout for better […]
One Year Of Gutenberg – I Take It All Back!
It’s been almost exactly one year since Automatic released Gutenberg – the new text editor on WordPress, and I’ve been using it almost continuously since then. When it first came out, I found it lacking in many respects and wrote a blog post on how annoyed I was. Since then however, a lot of things […]
Why I Won’t Use Google’s “Site Kit” for WordPress
A little over a month ago on the 31st of October, Google released “Site Kit” for WordPress. It blends together all of Google’s tools like Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed insights, and presents their results together in the WordPress report screen. It’s a neat idea, and I can see where they’re going with it. WordPress […]
Managing The LiteSpeed Cache From cPanel
One of the biggest benefits of NameHero is the server-based caching. This is in-built into the hosting service with the LiteSpeed web server, and delivers dramatic performance gains if you have a relatively static site like most people. Keep in mind that this is superior to the normal caching plugins for platforms like WordPress such […]
How To Generate An AutoSSL In cPanel With NameHero
Way back towards the end of 2016, we at NameHero decided to offer free SSL certifications via a partnership with Let’s Encrypt. This was at least two years before Google pressured the rest of the web hosting industry into switching to HTTPS for hosting reasons. Like so many other things, NameHero was there well before […]
How To Configure PHP Options In NameHero cPanel
Most of the time when you get web hosting and install WordPress on it, everything works by default out of the box. But sometimes, you might try doing things a little differently – perhaps install software that isn’t standardized, for example. Or you may need to increase certain in-built PHP limits like the memory allocation, […]
How To Generate A CSR At NameHero In cPanel
When you purchase web hosting with NameHero, you get a free SSL certificate via Let’s Encrypt. We’ve had this for quite a while – long before Google indicated that it will tie rankings to HTTPS sites. From a security and encryption point of view, these Let’s Encrypt certs are every bit as secure are any […]
How To Prevent Your Own Visits From Logging In Analytics
Every website owner uses analytics of some sort or another to track visits to their site, and other related metrics like referrals, conversions, etc. I remember way back in 2004, using basic scripts that just provided a bare log of visitors and their referrals. And how far we’ve come from then! But we all face […]
Clear Cloudflare Caches After WordPress Updates to Avoid Errors
A few days back, we got the new version of WordPress – 5.3. My hosting settings are configured to automatically update WordPress to all the latest versions, so when I logged into my admin screen a few days later, it was already up to date. As I was composing a new post in my MS […]