Is Cinch Right for You?
WordPress and the related software required to run a website are constantly changing, evolving, and improving. This necessitates an active website management approach. There …
The Cinch Blog
WooCommerce 3.9.0 Requires Minimum PHP 7.0
In an effort to continue to push WooCommerce forward, the latest version of Woo now requires a website to be running on PHP 7.0 …
Why We Don't Do One-Time Fixes
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 …
Prevent WordPress from Scaling Large Images
WordPress version 5.3 made a change to the way it handles large images uploaded to the media library. This change was made to help …
How Our Real-Time Backups Saved The Day
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 …
Get Notified When a User Removes an Item from a WooCommerce Subscription
We recently had a customer remove an item from a subscription by going into their account, choosing the subscription and deleting an item. We …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Why We Recommend Extensions from WooCommerce.com
We support a ton of customers running WooCommerce on their sites and have seen an equal ton of WooCommerce extensions and plugins on those …
How to Set Up Google Maps API Credentials and Enable Billing
Google updated its Maps API requirements last year and many of our customers are just now finding their maps no longer working. I’m not …
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 …
30-Minute Fixes
Our 30-Minute Fixes are the Cornerstone of Your Support Plan In life, and in websites, things rarely fix themselves. That is why Cinch provides …
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.
How We Connect to Your Site
Managing and maintaining your site requires that we connect to it in multiple ways. We of course need admin access to WordPress as well …
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 …
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. …
24/7 Security Scanning & Malware Removal
A little more than one out of every four websites run on WordPress and at least 42% of online stores run on WooCommerce. Simply …
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 …
Staging Sites for WordPress
One of the best things about WordPress is the thousands of developers who are constantly working to better your themes, plugins and extensions. Unlike …