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WordPress Software Updates

Keeping up with WordPress updates can be tedious and time consuming… and we bet you have much better things to do with your time. Like run your business. At Cinch, we take care of your website updates every day so you don’t

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Add Revision support to WooCommerce Products

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

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Prevent Safari from unzipping and deleting zip files

Safari's default behavior is to unzip downloaded zip files, and also delete them. While this is nice some of the time, it isn't ideal all of the time. So rather than go hunting through the trash I'd rather turn the option off

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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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Elegant Themes issues security warning for Divi theme and Divi Builder

Elegant Themes notified users that updated versions of some of their products were available that patched security issues. The affected themes and plugins are the Divi and Extra themes, as well as their Divi Builder plugin. They are recommending that users update

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How to Install and Enable a WooCommerce Extension from WooCommerce.com

Installing a plugin on your WordPress website is pretty straight forward, and can be done in a few different ways. WooCommerce extensions from WooCommerce.com are installed differently and are managed within the WooCommerce plugin itself. WooCommerce extension? Aren't they just plugins? WooCommerce

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Web CMS & Website File Management: The Basics

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

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Ensure Gmail and Gsuite Deliverability in WordPress

Are you having trouble sending WordPress emails and notifications to your Gmail or Gsuite email? This is a common issue with both Gmail and Gsuite (and other email hosting services). There are well known reasons for why it's happening, and what you

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New Cinch Branding: For Real this Time

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

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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

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Gutenberg 4.4 Changelog

Improves discoverability of permalinks by adding permalink panel to the document sidebar.Improves margins, column child block, and mobile display of columns.Allow for programmatically removing editor document panels.Replaces the uploading indicator of images and galleries with a spinner and faded out image.Toolbar for

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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

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How do I reset a user’s password in WordPress?

In WordPress, there are numerous ways to reset yours, or another users password. Here's a few different ways you can do that: Reset a user password through the WordPress admin In the Admin Panel menu, go to UsersClick on the user you'd

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Fix FTP Connection Issues with GoDaddy

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

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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

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Delete LayerSlider WP if you are not using it

LayerSlider WP is a seemingly ubiquitous content slider that comes bundled with over 900 WordPress themes available at themeforest. If you run a premium theme purchased there, chances are you have it installed on your site right now. Like many other bundled

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WooCommerce set default product category

If you're looking how to set the default product category in WooCommerce, you might think to look for a setting somewhere. After all, setting the default post category is found in Settings > Writing. But it's even simpler to set than that.

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If the sub’s a-rockin’…

It's a Friday celebration in the Cinch submarine! Today we hit a milestone with the number of websites we manage and your crew is partying near torpedo bay three. Thanks to all our great customers who've trusted us with the protection and

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Premium Plugin Management for WordPress Sites

As the use and functionality of WordPress grows and improves, so do the thousands upon thousands of plugins available on the platform. With so many options, it can be overwhelming choosing the right WordPress plugins for your site.  And while there are

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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

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