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Best Hosting for WordPress: WP Engine
Most small businesses with a WordPress website give very little consideration to web hosting, until they have a serious problem on their hands. The problems I’m referring to include: security breaches; excessive server downtime; the lack of a staging server; stale (or...
Top 5 Reasons Your Website Can Be Expensive to Fix (and What to Do About It)
When prospective clients reach out to me with a website emergency, one of the first things I need to determine, is whether or not their hosting environment and website are suitable for a quick, safe, and affordable fix. Many times a simple fix isn’t a “simple” fix,...
How to: Reduce Form Submission Spam on Your WordPress Website
What is Form Submission Spam? When someone reaches out to you or your organization via a form on your website, an email notification with the submitter’s message is delivered to you or a group of designated recipients. Some of these form submissions turn out to be an...
Divi Theme Support and Maintenance
Since 2013, Divi — the world’s most popular WordPress Theme — has been updated by Elegant Themes over 380 times! That’s about 50 updates per year! That's exactly why proper Divi theme support and maintenance are critically important. Of course, these releases address...
WordPress’ Automatic Updates: Pros and Cons
The first step toward securing your WordPress website begins with a plan to update WordPress’ core files, themes, and plugins on a regular basis. This is important because these updates may not only introduce new features or fix bugs — they may also address critical...
How Domain Names Work: A Non-Technical Guide for Site Migrations
Without a registered domain name, visitors would have to remember a unique numerical address (aka the IP address) to get to your website (e.g., http://35.224.124.183). In other words, your domain name is an alias for the web server that stores and serves your website...
Website Maintenance and Why You Need It
WordPress, themes, and plugins are constantly revised by their respective developers to fix bugs; add new features; and refine usability. But staying on top of these plugin updates isn’t enough. Your WordPress maintenance plan should also include security hardening;...
Email Hosting: When Your Web Host Doesn’t Offer Email
Until I began hosting my websites at WP Engine, web hosting and email hosting were a package deal. Back then, if I purchased a hosting plan with almost any other hosting provider, email was included. In fact, the lack of email hosting with WP Engine was a…