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 […]
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 […]
Say Goodbye To Getting Locked Out With WordPress 5.2
I’ve been working on WordPress sites since 2006. Since then, I’ve moved domains, switched web hosts, burned through several iterations of core WordPress, themes, and plugins. My sites have broken, been DDoS’d, and sometimes even misconfigured out of existence! But even with all this experience, I still feel a stab of panic if one of […]
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 […]
How To Enable Dynamic Caching On NameHero
Normal shared hosting is pretty basic. You get a Linux server, with the ability to install a few applications, and that’s it. Cheap web hosting doesn’t include any additional features like a real CDN, backup solutions, or dynamic caching. Which is what makes NameHero so different from other hosts on the market. Unlike the big […]
How To Put An Image In The WordPress Title
Most blog titles will be plain text. That’s what users expect generally and it’s what they like to see on Google. It’s a fine line between standing out in the SERPS and being seen as spam. It’s possible if you do it carefully. Sometimes you may have seen additional character sets in the titles of […]
The Best WordPress Table Plugin (For Now)
I’ve had a long history with displaying tables in WordPress. I particularly like them because Google tends to pick them up for featured snippets. Unfortunately, finding the right one for me isn’t easy because of the following requirements: Needs to easily display on smaller screens Needs to display a “caption” tag Should be easy to […]