WordPress

NameHero has a partnership with DropMySite to backup your website on a daily basis. One of the advantages of this, is that it allows you to see which files are modified – particularly, the error logs can be quite useful. Recently, this allowed me to isolate a recurring error logged in a “php_errorlog” file that […]

This morning when I went to my site’s dashboard, I saw that the Automattic team had released the latest version of the Jetpack plugin – 8.4. As per my usual habit of never updating a plugin until at least 4 days had passed, I first went through the update notes to see if there were […]

Just because we have a new technology, doesn’t mean we all need to scramble on to it. Or more precisely, we should try out everything, and choose to keep what works. Discard the rest. For years now, Google has been pushing AMP for websites to display on mobile phones. And for years, I signed up […]

Because of how widespread WordPress is, most web hosts offer “WordPress Hosting” in addition to their normal web hosting packages. This trend seems to have really taken off in the past few years and has forced many hosting providers to also display “WordPress Hosting” on their website. But what does this mean? Is WordPress hosting […]

I’d written earlier about how to load the Google Tag Manager only on specific pages, and I’d mentioned there that we could ensure that certain tags would only fire when the user was or wasn’t logged into the CMS. A great use-case scenario for this is when we don’t want our Google Analytics code to […]

When WordPress 5.2 released on 7th May 2019, it included the new “wp_body_open” action, which allowed to insert arbitrary code into the body section of WordPress. One of the best uses of this new functionality was inserting Google Tag Manager (GTM) code, because Google recommends placing it in the body and not the header or […]

If you search for any guide on the Internet on the “proper” way to include CSS in WordPress, you’ll get a lot of advice telling you to hook into the “wp_enqueue_scripts” function and attach your external CSS file from there. Heck, I myself have explained how to do this in an earlier tutorial! This advice […]

It’s always seemed a bit weird to me that WordPress doesn’t extend its taxonomy system to posts. While with posts, you can make use of the extensive category/tag infrastructure and manipulate them in a variety of ways, this same facility doesn’t apply to pages. As a result, we lose out on a lot of conveniences. […]

We’ve written a lot about server-side caching at NameHero. It allows your website to keep copies of generated pages and serve them to visitors without needing to recreate them over and over. Better speeds for your visitors and easier server loads on your end. What’s not to like? However, caching has traditionally been useful only […]

At this point, we already have quite a few backup tutorials on NameHero. We’ve talked about backing up the database, backing up the file system, as well as our policy of free nightly backups that we keep for one day. However, the above techniques are not WordPress specific. They backup databases and files that are […]