Cinch Rebrand – Not Home Services
Since we’ve had a hard time fininshing our About page and our Story, it’s likely you may not know that Cinch is a partnership …
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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 …
Upcoming Google Maps API billing changes
Earlier this year Google announced changes to the Google Maps API. They are calling it Google Maps Platform and among the updates are changes …
Supporting the Park City Fire District
This post is part of our customer showcase series where we highlight some of the awesome things our customers are doing. Hardworking and proud …
Let’s Encrypt to offer wildcard SSL’s
Great news folks!! Starting in January 2018 Let’s Encrypt will start issuing wildcard SSL certificates. They cite that wildcards have been a common feature …
Google’s push towards HTTPS
Google has been leading the charge to create a safer internet; one where it is not easy for hackers to snoop your connection or …
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 …
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 …
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 …
40 years: The Edmund Fitzgerald
As a kid growing up in Central Minnesota I’d never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The wreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot was a …
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 …
Everyday Hacks
At Cinch, we find and clean-up a variety of WordPress hacks each week. Since it’s Friday, and I need a little break from the …
Chrome 46 removes HTTP / HTTPS mixed content warning
Google announced yesterday on their Online Security Blog that they’ll be retiring the yellow caution triangle badge that appeared when Chrome detected a “HTTPS …
Slack Snippets zero width space bug
I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters (​) from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a …
SVG SMIL animations to be deprecated
I was recently got a console warning in Chrome on a client’s website stating that: [text] SVG’s SMIL animations (‘animate’, ‘set’, etc.) are deprecated …
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 …
Google This!
Google recently released it’s first major update to its 17 year old logo. Oh, it’s the still a crayon-colored text treatment, but the BIG …
The submarine makes sense now.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So …