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We recently had a customer mention that their WooCommerce powered site was showing 'No Delivery Options Available for UNITED STATES'. The site uses Table Rate Shipping so this isn't uncommon for visitors to see, but it can certainly spook potential customers. Here's
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.
Many WordPress bloggers employ the Akismet anti-spam plugin to prevent spam comments to posts. If this includes you, please update to the latest version to patch a critical persistent XXS vulnerability. You can learn more about this issue from the Akismet blog.
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
Alt title: How I cut GIGABYTES off a WordPress database One of the things we care about here at Cinch is website performance. We provide our customers support and guidance on how to keep a website fast, as well as managing some
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.
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
WooCommerce 4.1.0 was released yesterday and among the various updates, there's now a new Marketing tab below the Analytics menu item. This is a new addition to WooCommerce, which they are dubbing the Marketing Hub. Taking a look at the new section
Prevent Safari from unzipping and deleting zip files
Safari's default behavior is to unzip downloaded zip files, and also delete them. While this is nice some of the time, it isn't ideal all of the time. So rather than go hunting through the trash I'd rather turn the option off
The world of managed WordPress hosting has exploded in the last few years. On one end of the spectrum, you have inexpensive, mass-market shared hosts like GoDaddy, Network Solutions, BlueHost and SiteGround. On the other end, complicated do-it-yourself dedicated systems. Cinch, however,
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
Managing and maintaining your site requires that we connect to it in multiple ways. We of course need admin access to WordPress as well as an SFTP connection, but here's the full why, what and how of how we keep your site
Website backups are vital to your site’s long-term health. Unfortunately, the free WordPress backups provided by hosting companies typically aren’t enough to reliably restore your site to its full glory after a crash… or in some cases, even restore it at all.
Get Notified When a User Removes an Item from a WooCommerce Subscription
We recently had a customer remove an item from a subscription by going into their account, choosing the subscription and deleting an item. We manage multiple websites for this customer, but one of their sites was recently sold and he no longer
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
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
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
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
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
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps to protect websites by monitoring and filtering traffic between the site and the internet. It protects against certain attacks like cross-site-scripting, file inclusion and SQL injection, among others. A WAF is like placing a barrier in