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Uptime Monitoring of WordPress Sites

You have a business to run and a life to live – one that doesn’t include constantly checking your WordPress site for problems. Websites and servers do go down from time to time, however, and not knowing there is an issue can

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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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WordPress Admin Menu Flickers and Jumps: The Fix

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

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Canceling Your Cinch Subscription

If you've decided to cancel your Cinch maintenance subscription, here's what you need to know and the steps you'll need to take to completely remove us from your website. How to Cancel Your Subscription WE ARE NOT CINCH HOME SERVICES!!Note: We are

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Add a collaborator to a WooCommerce account

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

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Domain Names & Web Hosting, Explained

Building a website can be a huge undertaking – especially if you’ve never built one before. While small sites with small budgets can be built with a little elbow grease and a lot of trial and error, bigger sites and e-commerce sites

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Website Back Up Guidelines for WordPress

Someday, you will lose some important file that hasn't been backed up... Wait - of course you won't - You already know the importance of backing up files and data, including your website. It's common sense really, so, let's just skip past

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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

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How to Create a Multi-Option Search Form in WordPress

We're building a new website for the Park City Library, and one of the requirements is a search form that can search either the website or initiate a search of their online catalog. The design we settled on looks like this: The

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Setting Up Server-side WordPress Cron Events

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

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Change Order of Posts in WordPress Dashboard

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

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Hardening WordPress

WordPress is a hugely popular content management platform. From its humble blogging beginnings, WordPress has developed into an online powerhouse used by organizations and businesses from Fortune 500 firms to shoe-string start-ups. In fact, W3 Techs reports that a whopping 58.6% of

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Managed WordPress Hosting

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,

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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.

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Has My WordPress Website Been Hacked?

Unfortunately, hacking is a very real and prevalent problem faced by countless online entities. WordPress, as one of the internet’s most popular platforms for running independent websites, is no exception; approximately 25% of WordPress sites will be hacked at some point during

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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

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Get Ready for WooCommerce’s PHP 7.4 Requirement

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

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Get Ready: WooCommerce 3.9 set to require PHP 7.0

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

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5 Minute Security Upgrade: Set your secret keys

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

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Gutenberg 4.2 Changelog

Introduce the Formatting API for extending RichText.Use default Inserter for sibling block insertion.Support adding and updating entities in data module.Update block descriptions for added clarity and consistency.Add support for displaying icons in new block categories.Append registered toolbar buttons in RichText.Optimize SlotFill rendering to avoid props destructuring.Optimize Inserter props generation and reconciliation.Improve writing flow by

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