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How Our Real-Time Backups Saved The Day

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

Add a collaborator to a WooCommerce account

We work with a lot of store owners running WooCommerce. Most of those customers also run at least a few WooCommerce extensions to extend the out-of-the-box functionality. And since nearly all Woo extensions are on a paid subscription, someone needs to be

Gutenberg 4.4 Changelog

Improves discoverability of permalinks by adding permalink panel to the document sidebar.Improves margins, column child block, and mobile display of columns.Allow for programmatically removing editor document panels.Replaces the uploading indicator of images and galleries with a spinner and faded out image.Toolbar for

Why We Don't Do One-Time Fixes

We write quite a bit on our blog about WordPress and WooCommerce, and how we've solved some of the issues we've come across. This brings a lot of site traffic – folks looking for help on the same issues we've come across.

Website Back Up Guidelines for WordPress

Someday, you will lose some important file that hasn't been backed up... Wait - of course you won't - You already know the importance of backing up files and data, including your website. It's common sense really, so, let's just skip past

WordPress Updates Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2

In a continued effort to push WordPress sites to use newer, more secure versions of PHP, WordPress recently bumped the minimum recommended version of PHP to 7.2. Sites running lower versions will see this message on their dashboard: PHP 7.0 reached End

How to filter Gmail to ensure delivery of emails from own domain

If you have a form on your website that is set up to send notifications to an email address with the same domain, you may have found you're not getting them when using Gmail as your email host. For what ever reason,

Has My WordPress Website Been Hacked?

Unfortunately, hacking is a very real and prevalent problem faced by countless online entities. WordPress, as one of the internet’s most popular platforms for running independent websites, is no exception; approximately 25% of WordPress sites will be hacked at some point during

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”

How to force WooCommerce to install missing pages

When WooCommerce is first installed, a welcome screen is presented to assist in configuring the settings to get up and running: While this setup process is helpful, sometimes you just want to get straight to it and hit the skip button. All of

Remove “​” from being injected into HTML

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

Domain Names & Web Hosting, Explained

Building a website can be a huge undertaking – especially if you’ve never built one before. While small sites with small budgets can be built with a little elbow grease and a lot of trial and error, bigger sites and e-commerce sites

Why your Instagram feed is broken and how to fix it

If you use the Instagram Feed plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/) by Smash Balloon you may have found that the display of your feed was changed after the last update. If so, log in as administrator to WordPress, click Instagram Feed then the Customize tab.

Brute Force attack report

A Brute Force attack is defined as a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data such as passwords through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies. Basically slam your site repeatedly in hopes of guessing your username

Google This!

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

WooCommerce Subscriptions Renewal Notification Didn’t Send? Here’s What Was Missing

A customer reached out with a question on WooCommerce Subscriptions renewal notifications: We received a complaint from a member who said he was not notified that his membership was about to renew. When I look in the logs, it shows an email

Google’s push towards HTTPS

Google has been leading the charge to create a safer internet; one where it is not easy for hackers to snoop your connection or steal passwords and personal messages, and one that helps ensure that the site you are visiting is authentic,

Should I delete the Gutenberg plugin after installing WordPress 5.0?

If you installed the Gutenberg plugin to get a head start on the new 'Gutenberg' editor prior to its inclusion in WordPress 5.0,  you may be wondering if you should now delete the plugin. Yes, you can delete the Gutenberg plguin Now

Secure your site or alienate your visitors

How to back up an e-commerce website

I recently posted an article on detailing general guidelines for backing up a WordPress website. In that article I briefly touched on backing up an e-commerce website, but didn't go into great detail. Thankfully, most of what I wrote there applies to