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How to get your webhost to upgrade to PHP 7

As we saw last week, the WordPress push towards upgrading to PHP 7 is gaining steam. While this effort as a whole is very good, it's leaving site owners on older, legacy hosting platforms in a bit of a bind. Why the

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Create a WordPress Admin Account via phpMyAdmin

Have you ever been totally locked out of your WordPress admin account? While it's normally a rare occurrence, it can happen if your site has been hacked, an accidental deletion or another admin has deliberately deleted you. If your account is totally

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How to Install and Enable a WooCommerce Extension from WooCommerce.com

Installing a plugin on your WordPress website is pretty straight forward, and can be done in a few different ways. WooCommerce extensions from WooCommerce.com are installed differently and are managed within the WooCommerce plugin itself. WooCommerce extension? Aren't they just plugins? WooCommerce

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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

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GoDaddy acquires ManageWP

GoDaddy acquired the popular WordPress management service ManageWP, which will remain a standalone service. ManageWP customers will have to wait and see if the service deteriorates. Cinch maintenance clients need not worry about any of this, as we don't use ManageWP. The

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WordPress Performance Optimization

Improve Site Speed and Page Load Times Your site’s search engine ranking depends on a number of factors and an increasingly important one is the speed of your website. All major search engines take page load speed into consideration when determining how

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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

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Move a country to the top of WooCommerce checkout shipping list

If you're using WooCommerce and selling primarily to a single country, it's nice to set a default country on the checkout page shipping drop-down. We recently had a customer ask how to move the United States to the top of the dropdown

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WordPress Without the Headache: Why Smart Business Owners Outsource Their Website Management

You probably already know your WordPress powered website needs regular maintenance. Business owners are well aware of the cost of doing business and know that updates, security monitoring, and regular backups are essential. But here's the reality we hear from our customers

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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.

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How to Set Up Google Maps API Credentials and Enable Billing

Google updated its Maps API requirements last year and many of our customers are just now finding their maps no longer working. I'm not sure if the policy is just now going into effect for them, but the issue usually lies in

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How to add new users to WordPress

Need to add a new user or author to your WordPress website? Well good news, it's pretty easy. WordPress comes with a built in user management system that allows you to add users with a variety of roles and capabilities. This means you

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Keeping up with Gutenberg

Most of us who are close to the WordPress world know that Gutenberg is coming. And probably soon. We've been using it here on Cinch and elsewhere in order to get a better understanding of how it works and how it will affect

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The Importance of Monitoring Your WordPress Website for Security Issues

High-profile website hacking cases have dominated the headlines over the past few years, with everyone from national governments to tech giants like Yahoo! being proven vulnerable. In an increasingly digital age, with technology evolving at such a rapid pace, it is impossible

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Upcoming Changes to Advanced Custom Fields

Upcoming Changes to the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Plugin Advanced Custom Fields just released a security update that might include breaking changes, and they are preparing a future update that will affect a common use case for many sites. In this post,

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WooCommerce set default product category

If you're looking how to set the default product category in WooCommerce, you might think to look for a setting somewhere. After all, setting the default post category is found in Settings > Writing. But it's even simpler to set than that.

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Cinch Service Badges, and Free Stickers!

We launched a new version of the Cinch website in the fall of 2019 introducing new services and pricing. Along with our new site and service plans, we created this set of custom illustrated badges to go with each WordPress plan we

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Supporting the Park City Fire District

This post is part of our customer showcase series where we highlight some of the awesome things our customers are doing. Hardworking and proud The Park City Fire District is a hard working team of full time firefighters and EMT's that protects

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How to Test a Migrated Website Using Your Computer’s Hosts File

Testing a migrated website is simple with your hosts file. Preview the new server, verify everything works, and ensure a smooth, downtime-free migration.

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Gutenberg 4.2 Changelog

Introduce the Formatting API for extending RichText.Use default Inserter for sibling block insertion.Support adding and updating entities in data module.Update block descriptions for added clarity and consistency.Add support for displaying icons in new block categories.Append registered toolbar buttons in RichText.Optimize SlotFill rendering to avoid props destructuring.Optimize Inserter props generation and reconciliation.Improve writing flow by

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