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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.

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

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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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The human security factor: Passwords

Hardening WordPress—the steps taken to tighten up security to prevent a malicious intrusion into your website—can seem daunting to the typical user. Luckily, one of the simplest things you can do to harden WordPress is also one of the most effective: use

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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

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How to Add an Item to an Existing Order in WooCommerce

We recently had a WooCommerce Support customer ask how they can add an additional item to one of their customers' orders through their WooCommerce store. The original order had already been placed and payment was taken. The customer then called and asked

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Visual Composer 5.4.1 automatic update issue

We manage a lot of sites that use Visual Composer. While it's not our favorite page builder, it's certainly very popular. We recently received notice that the 5.4.1 version contained a bug preventing automatic updates of upcoming versions. Since updating VC has

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How Cinch Handles Premium Plugins for WordPress

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

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How to force WooCommerce to install missing pages

When WooCommerce is first installed, a welcome screen is presented to assist in configuring the settings to get up and running: While this setup process is helpful, sometimes you just want to get straight to it and hit the skip button. All of

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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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Why your Instagram feed is broken and how to fix it

If you use the Instagram Feed plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/) by Smash Balloon you may have found that the display of your feed was changed after the last update. If so, log in as administrator to WordPress, click Instagram Feed then the Customize tab.

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Why Is Link Saving My Customer’s Payment Info?

If you run a WooCommerce store that uses Stripe, there is a good chance you have Link enabled on your checkout right now and don't know it. We know this because we have fielded several versions of the same support request lately,

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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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How Do I Update / Manage My Credit Card

We make it easy for you to manage and update your credit cards and payments for our subscriptions. If you've received an email that your automatic renewal payment failed, here's how to get it updated. Update or Change a Credit Card If

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WooCommerce Stripe plugin now requires PHP 5.6

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

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Turn on WordPress error reporting

If your site is experiencing issues that you think might be related to PHP issues, here's how you turn on error reporting in WordPress: Find line one below in wp-config.php, comment it out, and add the rest below. This is meant to

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How the lost password function in WordPress works

At some point in time you, or another user of your WordPress site, will forget their password and will need to have it reset. WordPress has automated this activity and made it simple. Self-service vs. admin-managed password resets The built-in “lost password”

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Brute Force attack report

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

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WordPress & WooCommerce Email Deliverability

When you send an email it better get delivered, right? Ideally into the recipients inbox. As email hosts and ISP's crank harder to fight email spam, we're seeing an increasing issue with our WordPress and WooCommerce Support customers – emails sent from

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How to bulk enable reviews in WooCommerce

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

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Cloud Backups

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.

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