A short while ago, NameHero launched its new website builder – a product that allows complete beginners to get started with hosting their website. I’d written an introductory blog post about the service, explaining some of the salient features. Notably, it’s free for the first week, so customers can actually start building their website to […]
Shared Hosting Tips For Beginners
Web hosting can be quite a daunting concept for a beginner. It’s a lot to wrap your head around – domain registration, hosting, website builders, WordPress, and more. It’s no wonder that people are intimidated and go for potentially sub-optimal solutions like Wix or other services that lock you into a provider with high fees! […]
My Favorite Cloudflare Page Rules
Cloudflare can be used in innovative ways to improve the performance of your site. The most obvious use-case is of course, the caching of static assets, but there are so many other functionalities. For example, page rules are some of the most impactful features that Cloudflare offers. We can use them for caching, forwarding, disabling […]
Why You Should NEVER Edit Plugins From Inside WordPress
There are many examples on this blog, where we provide code to add to your theme’s functions.php file, or even for insertion into a child theme. For example, here’s a tutorial from our knowledgebase on how to add custom code to WordPress. However, we perhaps don’t stress often enough how important it is to NOT […]
Exciting Changes Coming to WordPress 5.5!
WordPress 5.5 is scheduled for release on the 11th of August 2020. While it’s still almost a couple of weeks away, here’s a quick rundown of the major changes to expect. There’s no doubt about it – this is a major release, and it’s only the second one in 2020. As always, the changes fall […]
Is a VPS More Complicated Than Shared Hosting?
Shared hosting has the limitation that your resources aren’t dedicated to you alone. You’re always “sharing” them with someone else. So when you see “X GB” RAM on a shared hosting specifications page, it’s understood that you won’t be getting all of that for yourself. Providers have to juggle resources to constantly ensure that each […]
3 Free SEO Tools – And Limited Utility Of Google Search Console
SEO is a weird mix of art and snake oil. It’s most definitely not a science – no one knows all the rules of Google’s search algorithms, and none can make a guaranteed claim that one particular method is the most effective of all. But this uncertainty has led to the rise of many complicated […]
Using the NameHero Website Builder to Kickstart Your Website
NameHero recently launched its own website builder to help you get started on your next business idea without having to make any down payment, or even provide a credit card. I’ve been writing about web hosting for years, and I can tell you that no one allows you to have a free trial to kick […]
Should You Forbid Google Featured Snippets On Your Site?
Just because Google introduces something new, doesn’t mean that it’s automatically good for us as website owners. Aside from the fact that they’re not omniscient and can make mistakes, there’s a question of conflict of interest. I know the “right” answer is to say that you create websites to serve the needs of your visitors, […]
How To Fix The WordPress Gutenberg Image Layout Shift
A while back I’d written about how to reduce your Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) to zero by loading your site on an ultra-low connection and see what moves around. However, even after getting a CLS of 0 seconds on the Google testing tools, I was still getting a high value in the search console that […]