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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
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
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.
Change ‘Choose an Option’ variation dropdown label in WooCommerce
Like any good e-commerce platform, WooCommerce offers the ability to add variations and attributes to products. Sizes, colors, etc. are common ways to sell variations on a product. Depending on how your theme is set up, these variations will often be available
We use WooCommerce Subscriptions to manage our customers monthly payments, and love its overall functionality. It's both powerful and flexible, and more than enough for our needs. Like all WooCommerce products, WooCommerce Subscriptions come with a built in status set - including
Some WordPress users have noticed lately that their admin menu bar has been flickering or jumping around when links are hovered. It turns out that the problem stems from Slimming Paint running on Chrome vers. 45. Reportedly, Google is aware of this
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
Running an e-commerce website has unique and exciting challenges that non e-comm sites needn't worry about. One of those challenges is how best to manage backups. Every site needs a backup plan, what's so special about e-commerce? Most website managers don't add
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
With the release of WooCommerce 8.2.0 in October 2023, PHP 7.4 will become the minimum required PHP version. This change is being made to ensure WooCommerce can leverage the improved performance and security of PHP 7.4. WooCommerce tracks version usage which shows
If you want to greatly increase the security of your WordPress site, here’s an easy technique for you to employ. Although it’s been around since version 2.6, we see it rarely used by site owners and it’s worth revisiting. Cookies When you
We've been designing logos and brands for years, especially Chris and his team at Studio2. Lots of really good work over the years. Designing for ourselves should be a... wait for it... cinch for us right? Yeah not quite so much. Turns
Here's how to add an .svg file to your a template in your WordPress theme - without having to paste the entire file contents: https://gist.github.com/spigotdesign/4e493d5678daeaa8d266 I use this technique to add the main logo to a website. It would normally go in
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
We recently had a customer request that the entries in a custom post type get automatically alphabetized. Clicking on the title certainly does the job here, but who's got time for that? There are a few ways to order posts, but if
Are you seeing a 403 error when you try to access your site? It's one of the most frustrating errors a site owner can see when it comes unexpectedly. In this article we'll go over the 403 forbidden error and how to
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
74.6 million unique websites depend upon WordPress to stay up and running every day, with six new posts being uploaded to the site every second. If you are one of the millions that uses WordPress to manage your website, then you know
A hosting and maintenance client recently reached out after seeing a “Site can’t be reached” error with the message DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN. While that sounds serious, the website was up and running for us and online according to external uptime tools. Cause This type of error usually
WooCommerce Fatal Error: Call to a member function get_data_store()
I recently ran into a fatal error issue when trying to create a new post or page: The error traced to a WooCommerce Subscriptions file, but the problem was isolated to my user account only. I went back and forth a little