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 …
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Optimizing a ThemeForest theme
WordPress themes from ThemeForest are perhaps the most popular premium themes available. Themes like Avada, X | The Theme, and Enfold have over 100,000 …
Protect Your Website from Malware Spread through Ad Networks
Malware, or “malicious software,” is software designed to inflict harm to a website, digital device or network with a range of vicious strategies. Malware …
Good First Impressions – Why a Faster Site Speed is Important
A first impression always matters. Whether applying for a job or meeting a client for the first time, we all know the importance of …
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. …
How to update WooCommerce
We update a ton of plugins for our customers each and every day. 99.9% of them go very smoothly with no issues. But what …
Why did Visual Composer dissapear
What’s Visual Composer Visual Composer, by wpBakery, is a page builder plugin for WordPress. It allows the building of DIY pages without coding by …
How to disable plugins when you can’t access WordPress admin
When things go wrong in WordPress, often times the advice you’ll hear is to deactivate all of your plugins. Normally this is as easy …
How can I add a YouTube video to a post
It’s extremely easy to embed a YouTube video (and many other content types) into your WordPress site. This feature was added way back in …
How to add emoji to a WordPress post
Emojis have become a regular part of life with the proliferation of messaging apps. They’re cute, quick, and can put emotion on a text …
How to fix a 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress
Are you seeing a 403 error when you try to access your site? It’s one of the most frustrating errors a site owner can …
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 …
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 …
GoDaddy acquires ManageWP
GoDaddy acquired the popular WordPress management service ManageWP, which will remain a standalone service. ManageWP customers will have to wait and see if the …
ACF Get Image snippets
Now that WordPress has Responsive Images as part of core, here’s how to use that power along side Advanced Custom Fields: https://gist.github.com/spigotdesign/f1ae5263e4bec51e111d A couple …
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: …
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 …
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 …
Passing variables through get_template_part()
When developing a WordPress theme I like to organize code into manageable, reusable pieces when ever possible. One great way of doing this is …
Add SVG image file to WordPress theme
Here’s how to add an .svg file to your a template in your WordPress theme – without having to paste the entire file contents: …