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How the lost password function in WordPress works
At some point in time you, or another user of your WordPress site, will forget their password and will need to have it reset. WordPress has automated this activity and made it simple. Self-service vs. admin-managed password resets The built-in “lost password”
Google recently released it's first major update to its 17 year old logo. Oh, it's the still a crayon-colored text treatment, but the BIG CHANGE...no more serifs. And unlike Apple this change has really nothing to do with style. It has to
At Cinch, we find and clean-up a variety of WordPress hacks each week. Since it's Friday, and I need a little break from the malicious variety, lets have some fun with hacks people create to make life a bit more analog. Laptops
It's a Friday celebration in the Cinch submarine! Today we hit a milestone with the number of websites we manage and your crew is partying near torpedo bay three. Thanks to all our great customers who've trusted us with the protection and
Does deleting a WordPress Taxonomy also Delete the Associated Post?
When the time comes to clean your post taxonomy house, it's good to get rid of old or non representative tags, categories, or custom taxonomies. Every time I remove one however, I get that nagging feeling - what if all these posts
Setting up shipping in WooCommerce can be quite the task, as there are multiple steps to take and numerous settings and shipping options to consider. We’ll cover one of these aspects below: setting up WooCommerce USPS shipping rates and settings. If you
One of the most troubling issues that crop up from time to time with our customers is when email notifications stop getting delivered. This is especially concerning for our WooCommerce customers who rely on email notifications to communicate with their customers and
Server Failures and Why You Can Trust Hosting a Site With Cinch
There are tons of places you can host your WordPress or WooCommerce powered website, from huge companies like GoDaddy to small independent companies like us. And while it's easy to think of web hosting as a relative commodity, there are big differences.
We offer real-time backups for our Performance, WooCommerce, and Pro-Bundle customers. A new customer recently signed up for our WooCommerce Support plan. One of the first things we do when setting up any site is to connect our backup systems and take
Remove image links from WooCommerce thumbnail images
Here's a quick tip on removing the links from product images in WooCommerce: https://gist.github.com/spigotdesign/f181faa58b6f154348b542e820adbeb8 We use this in conjunction with the removal of gallery images tip here. This makes our sign up page that much simpler. And nicer, dont-cha-think?
How to Create a Multi-Option Search Form in WordPress
We're building a new website for the Park City Library, and one of the requirements is a search form that can search either the website or initiate a search of their online catalog. The design we settled on looks like this: The
The Vital Importance of Keeping WordPress Plugins Updated
One of WordPress' great strengths is the sheer number and diversity of available plugins. These plugins offer website owners a vast array of features and enhancements and are an integral part to any WordPress powered website. It is essential however, for website
What Happened to the Post Comments Panel in Gutenberg?
When WordPress 5.0 was released with the new default editor, Gutenberg, the editing experience has become much more streamlined. Pallets, tools, and metaboxes have been rearranged or hidden from view. This includes the Comments panel that used to be available on a
In an effort to continue to push WooCommerce forward, the latest version of Woo now requires a website to be running on PHP 7.0 or later. Sites running on earlier versions of PHP will not be able to upgrade. If you're having
I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently Sublime Text 3 was the source of the problem, but these characters didn't appear in the source. Opening
How to Remove ?v=XXXXXX String from WooCommerce URLs
We recently had a question from one of our WooCommerce Support customers about why their site was showing random numbers at the end of their URL. They were concerned that it looked messy and maybe even a little scary and wondered how
As a kid growing up in Central Minnesota I'd never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The wreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot was a legend that would have been lost on my Gen X adolescence had my parents thought of passing it
Our support customers use a wide range of web hosting companies to host their websites. Many host with us, but most are using one of the million web hosts available. But while the companies may vary, the general hosting configuration is the
WooCommerce is a popular platform for running businesses online, allowing business owners to process online transactions through their own websites. If you’re one of the many WordPress users who entrusts their ecommerce needs to WooCommerce, then you know how important it is
WordPress 5.5 Causing Issues on Your Site? Here’s a Possible Fix
WordPress 5.5 was release on August 11th, and while it's mostly been a very smooth update, we've seen a few issues cropping up for some of our customers. Especially customers using older themes or plugins. As part of a longer term plan