Posts Tagged ‘maintenance’
Once you get your website secure it’s easy to keep it secure!
It’s a mistake to say “WordPress is insecure.” Yes, it may have once been insecure but then Toyota’s cars once had motorcycle engines! A lot’s changed. David Hayes recently said this very clearly. It is very common for people who know very little about WordPress to say that it’s insecure. And there’s some reasons from history that this diffuse…
Read MoreWordPress market share passes 27%
People occasionally ask me why we specialize on WordPress even though we could support numerous other platforms. To say “that’s where all the websites are” would be overstating it a bit. But it’s not and understatement to say “27% of all websites now run WordPress.” Here’s the lead paragraph for the post on WP Tavern. WordPress Passes…
Read MoreGoogle: pages should show what real people want to see
There are two main things you can do to improve your website’s SEO Part One: the “marketing” side One part is all about marketing in the best sense of the word: identifying the people you want to reach identifying how they think about your products, services, ideas, or interests Then creating content that meets their interests speaks to…
Read MoreExact Electric – HTML to WordPress Conversion
Exact Electric, LLC is a full-service electrical contractor serving Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region. When they were ready to add blogging and social media to their site they approached us to rebuild their old HTML site to a new, responsive WordPress site. We definitely can’t take all the credit since it was a…
Read MoreWordPress vulnerabilities compared to Google, Apache, MySQL
We’re very aggressive about fixing vulnerabilities in our client’s WordPress websites. We monitor multiple security sites to make sure we stay informed so we can apply fixes as soon as possible. Does that mean WordPress in inherently vulnerable? Is its reputation deserved? As the graph from the white-hat security firm WP White Security shows the…
Read MoreIdeal Clients: Successful bloggers who don’t backup their sites
A lot of bloggers start out almost on a lark and discover they love what they’re doing… and that their readers love them too. Blogging successfully is it’s own job. Constantly coming up with new content can be exhilarating and rewarding, but it can also be exhausting and time consuming. It’s hard to shift gears away from the…
Read MoreHaider Construction – Responsive Web Design
The folks at Haider Construction in Mountlake Terrace do wonderful remodels and roofing work in the greater Puget Sound region. They do quite a lot of radio advertising and wanted their site to look good when radio listeners gave them a look. Working with their designer we upgraded their website with a new, custom responsive WordPress…
Read MoreThree out-of-date plugins are responsible for 25% of all WordPress hacks
Serious advice from the makers of the iThemes Security plugin A very interesting and helpful article was published by Sucuri that looks at security vulnerabilities. The article identifies the top 3 plugins that are left on sites OUTDATED and cause nearly 25% of the total WordPress compromised sites they see: TimThumb, Revslider, and Gravity Forms. Remember…
Read MoreOne missed checkbox can lead to 47,000 spam users!
Did you know that if forget to click one checkbox during setup and anybody can create a visitor’s account on a WordPress website. Anyone or ,unfortunately, any spambot. Or, even more unfortunately, all of them! Most people, even beginners, figure out they should click that checkbox. And theoretically it’s no big deal. By default new accounts are…
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