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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: …

How to win the fight against contact form spam

Every few months we see waves of spam messages being sent through our customers contact forms. Fortunately there are steps that can be taken …

Upgrade Your WordPress Site to the New Google Analytics 4: Start Collecting Data Now

What is the new Google Analytics 4? In 2019, Google introduced their plan to evolve measurement standards with Google Analytics 4, which prioritizes user …

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 …

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 …

Extreme WordPress Housekeeping for Performance

Alt title: How I cut GIGABYTES off a WordPress database One of the things we care about here at Cinch is website performance. We …

Domain Name Management Best Practices

Do you know where your domain is? Having a domain name for your business is obviously important. It’s how customer find your website, and …

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 …

Add Product Description to WooCommerce product archive item

If you’d like to add a product description to products on archive pages, add one of the following snippets to your functions.php file or …

How to Set Up WooCommerce USPS Shipping Rates

Setting up shipping in WooCommerce can be quite the task, as there are multiple steps to take and numerous settings and shipping options to …

How to Set Up WooCommerce USPS Shipping for Your eCommerce Store

So, you’ve made the virtual leap and have moved your business online. You built your site, downloaded the WooCommerce plugin and added your products… …

An automated WordPress update has failed to complete

If you’ve ever run across this message in WordPress: An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – please attempt the update again now …

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 …

Responsive Video Embeds in WordPress

For many years we’ve used Fitvids.js to keep YouTube and Vimeo video embeds responsive for all screens. It’s still a good option in that …

WordPress 5.5 Causing Issues on Your Site? Here’s a Possible Fix

WordPress 5.5 was release on August 11th, and while it’s mostly been a very smooth update, we’ve seen a few issues cropping up for …

WooCommerce Bookings – Abandoned Cart Items not Auto Deleting [SOLVED]

A customer recently reached out with an issue with WooCommerce Bookings. Abandoned cart booking items weren’t being cleared out for others to book. When …

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 …

WooCommerce Subscriptions: Reactivate Canceled Subscription

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 …