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Web Application Firewall for WordPress Websites
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
We've recently come across a handful of reasons to ditch WordPress' built in cron scheduler (wp-cron). As with many things, I never remember exactly how it's set up, so this is quick step by step I can refer back to. I'm not
WooCommerce 3.9 is currently in development and is set to be released early January 2020. One change of note will be the new minimum PHP requirement: PHP 7.0 - any site running on an older version will not be able to update
Cinch Enhances Server Performance: Upgrading from Apache to Litespeed
At Cinch, we're committed to providing our hosting customers with the best in reliability and speed. Server performance is a critical factor that directly impacts website speed, user experience, and search engine rankings. A slow-loading website can lead to frustrated visitors, increased
We use Stripe as our payment processor here at Cinch. We love the streamlined approach to almost everything Stripe does - from the user checkout experience to our own account management. It's a solution we often suggest to our clients for the
5 Minute Security Upgrade: Change your wp_ database table prefix
When you, or your web developer, launched your WordPress site a database table prefix was determined. The prefix helps define and keep organized all of your WordPress data whether this data be something innocuous like the content of posts, or something serious
WooCommerce 2.7 release delayed, version changing to 3.0.0
We were expecting a brand new, major release version of WooCommerce to be released today (2.7), but in a post on the WooCommerce Dev blog, it looks like it's being pushed back a few weeks, likely April 4th. Critical bug found Pushing
I recently ran into an issue trying to connect to a new FTP account for a client who's hosted on GoDaddy. After setting up a new FTP account, I copied the credentials GoDaddy provides to manually configure an FTP client and continually
WooCommerce Products make use of WordPress's Custom Post Type feature, but one thing you'll notice is missing is revision support. WooCommerce has deliberately omitted support for revisions because the majority of the content in a WooCommerce product is stored as metadata. The
Jetpack has been around for many years now and has seen many new modules, updates, and improvements. It has also been through quite a few interface changes. Recent changes have made it harder and harder to find and manage the many modules
Now that WordPress has Responsive Images as part of core, here's how to use that power along side Advanced Custom Fields: https://gist.github.com/spigotdesign/f1ae5263e4bec51e111d A couple of notes 1. Use Image ID as ACF Return Value: 2. I've begun escaping the data output from
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
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
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
WooCommerce hide zero value on zero cost shipping methods
In WooCommerce version 3.4, the dev team made a change to show the value of free shipping methods (other than actual Free Shipping). This means if you use Local Pickup or other methods of shipping that don't have a preset or calculated
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
Avoid Blackhat SEO spam and save your online reputation
Malicious SEO hacking is known by many names—“Blackhat SEO”, “Dirty SEO”, “SEO Poisoning”—but in the end the result is always the same: your site visitors are greeted with a warning from Google that your site may hacked. In many cases website owners
I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters (​) from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a bug in Slack. We use Slack to maintain a code snippet library using their Snippet feature. It works
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.
A little more than one out of every four websites run on WordPress and at least 42% of online stores run on WooCommerce. Simply put, WordPress – and its most-used ecommerce software – is popular. Unfortunately, hackers like popular things. That is