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 […]
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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 […]
Patchman Arrives At NameHero: Automatic Vulnerability Patching
No matter how hard we preach here on the blog, on our official YouTube Channel, and in our support department, we still find some users consistently run outdated versions of WordPress (and other content management systems). Personally, I made this mistake a couple of times in my career, and had to learn my lesson the […]
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 […]
3 Reasons Why I’ve Started To Like WordPress Gutenberg
Well before WordPress’ Gutenberg was released, I tried it out in its various beta forms and absolutely hated it. In fact, I’d written a post here on NameHero about why it was annoying as hell. But since this was what we had to work with, I forced myself to switch to the block editor for […]
How To Modify WordPress Files Without cPanel Access
Most WordPress users don’t have to mess around too much with files and folders. Even advanced users need to usually only modify functions.php, and the theme files. And they can do this easily from within the WordPress interface itself via the in-built editor for plugins and themes. However, if you set up WordPress regularly for […]
4 Ways to Optimize Your Images in WordPress – Best Practices
Images form the largest part of modern web pages. Especially when you consider that Google likes “rich” web pages with lots of media. As a result, optimizing the delivery of your images is critical. Here are four ways to optimize your images in WordPress, with screenshots. Method 1: At Least 1200 px in Width When […]
How To Create Reusable Table Formats In WordPress
Tables are always a BIG problem for any layout. I’m not talking about using tables for design elements, but for displaying data. They come with the following issues: Rendering on mobile is always a problem No easy to way to create them in WordPress Not always easy to create complex layouts with merged fields etc. […]
How To Use A Postback URL To Get Email Notifications
Managing a site requires you to keep constant track of stuff. How many page visits are you getting on your landing pages? What’s the bounce rate? Is your site down? And many, many more parameters. These are relatively simple to track via analytics software, because they occur on your site. You can set up notifications […]