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Royal Slider Security Notice

WP Scan Vulnerability Database has released information about a potential security hole discovered in the popular Royal Slider plugin. The exploit allows a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to open a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script

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HTTPS security warnings being sent by Google

We've been talking about Google’s push towards HTTPS quite a bit this year. Now, we're seeing e-mails being sent from Google to website owners warning them that Chrome will begin showing security warnings to visitors about their site. What is the warning

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Why Independent Cloud Backups Are Vital to Your WordPress Website

In the immortal words of Elanor Shellstrop, when it comes to using free web hosting backups: “Ya basic.”  And in this instance, “basic” isn’t as delightfully harmless as the current pop culture obsession with all things pumpkin-spiced. Unfortunately, the cost of relying

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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

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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

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WooCommerce 6.8.0 Adding New Default Shipping Zone and Method

Update: WooCommerce 6.8.1 fixes this issue WooCommerce 6.8.0 was released last week and appears to have added a potential new bug related to shipping physical products. Smart Shipping for new sites A new featured called Smart Shipping that is supposed to set

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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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Force WordPress Media button to insert https:// links

I'd previously written a post about forcing the WordPress Media button to insert protocol relative links when running a website as HTTPS-everywhere. Upon further research it turns out that doing so is no longer considered best practice. Paul Irish points out that

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WordPress & WooCommerce Email Deliverability

When you send an email it better get delivered, right? Ideally into the recipients inbox. As email hosts and ISP's crank harder to fight email spam, we're seeing an increasing issue with our WordPress and WooCommerce Support customers – emails sent from

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Fix Log: MainWP 403 Error on cinchws.com

Date: June 24, 2025Affected Sites: The Problem Our MainWP dashboard stopped communicating with cinchws.com, which manages our support plans and subscriptions. MainWP marked the site as offline, test connections failed with a 403 error, and attempts to re-add the site were blocked entirely. What

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How to add emoji to a WordPress post

Emojis have become a regular part of life with the proliferation of messaging apps. They're cute, quick, and can put emotion on a text based message that would otherwise come across flat. So let's get that emotion on your website ???? WordPress

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Managed Hosting vs WordPress Support Services

In the last few years the concept of managed WordPress hosting has really taken off. Providers like WP Engine, Pressable, and Pagely started the concept, and regular, old-school hosting companies like Media Temple and Liquid Web have jumped on the bandwagon. If

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Gutenberg 4.6.0 Changelog

Fix issue with drag-and-drop in columns.Fix TinyMCE list plugin registration.Fix IE11 flexbox alignment when min-width is set.Fix IE11 focus loss after TinyMCE init. Add IE check.Fix getSelectedBlockClientId selector.Fix issue where unregistering a block type would cause blocks that convert to it to

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Remove Cross Sells from Cart in WooCommerce

If you've enabled cross-sells in WooCommerce on a product by product basis but would like to remove them from the cart in one motion, add the following script to your functions.php file or a custom functions plugin: You can also move the

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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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40 years: The Edmund Fitzgerald

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

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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

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An automated WordPress update has failed to complete

If you've ever run across this message in WordPress: An automated WordPress update has failed to complete - please attempt the update again now You may be a little confused, especially if everything is already updated. Well no worries, here's an easy

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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

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How Cinch Handles Premium Plugins for WordPress

What is a Premium Plugin? A premium plugin is a WordPress extension that requires its own license in order for you to use it. There will also be a license fee that gives you access to future updates and developer support for

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