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Our WordPress experts share insider knowledge, troubleshooting guides, and best practices to help you get the most out of your website—whether you're a DIYer or working with our team.
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.
At Cinch, we find and clean-up a variety of WordPress hacks each week. Since it's Friday, and I need a little break from the malicious variety, lets have some fun with hacks people create to make life a bit more analog. Laptops
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
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
WooCommerce is a popular platform for running businesses online, allowing business owners to process online transactions through their own websites. If you’re one of the many WordPress users who entrusts their ecommerce needs to WooCommerce, then you know how important it is
How to see if your WooCommerce site is TLS compliant
Authorize.net has been notifying it’s merchants of an upcoming TLS requirement. As of February 28, 2018 any merchants running TLS 1.0/1.1 will no longer be able to process sales transactions. All credit card processors are requiring that sites meet these requirements by
In the course of my WordPress education, no single developer or group has influenced the the way I do things more than Justin Tadlock. Purchasing a Theme Hybrid membership has been one of the most valuable WordPress tools I've had over the
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
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
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
WooCommerce reviews are a great way to engage with your customers around your products. If you have an established e-commerce site that doesn't have product reviews enabled, you might be surprised to find there is no way to bulk enable them out
New Features Add ability to change overlay color in Cover Image.Introduce new Font Size Picker with clear labels and size comparison.Introduce new RichText data structure to allow better manipulation of inline content.Add Pullquote style variation and color palette support.Add support for post
A Better Way to Run WordPress: Why We Changed Cinch
If you've seen our new logo, you've seen the surface-level change we've made to Cinch. This post is about what's underneath it and why it matters to our customers. The website wasn't a redesign. It was a rethink. Our previous site did
We explained the difference between domains and hosting in an earlier post, and how your website “lives” on your web host’s server. Next up: CMS and website file management. What is a CMS (Content Management System)? Unless you’re a web developer well
Force WordPress Add Media button to insert protocol relative links
Update: Protocol Relative links are considered an anti-pattern according to Paul Irish. Basically, if an asset is available over https:// then it should be served as such for security reasons. Get the updated code here. Cinchws.com is set up to be 'HTTPS
WooCommerce Variable Subscription Add to Cart URL’s
If you are ready to take your WooCommerce website to the next level beyond the standard product page layout, you're going to need to know how to create a link to put a product into the cart. This comes in hand when
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
Understanding the new workflow for WooCommerce Stripe Payment
A recent change in how the Stripe Checkout flow works in WooCommerce took us by surprise when working with a customers website. As we had set up on our own site, we expected to see this modal window to check out: We've
Stuck in WordPress Maintenance Mode (Briefly Unavailable…)
When a new version of WordPress is released, it's important to keep your site up to date. On rare occasions, the update process may hang or timeout, leaving your site in maintenance mode. In this article we'll discuss what WordPress Maintenance Mode
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