WordPress & WooCommerce Email Deliverability
When you send an email it better get delivered, right? Ideally into the recipients inbox. As email hosts and ISP’s crank harder to fight …
WordPress
Here’s a bit of stuff about WordPress, good reading.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
WordPress Recovery Mode Without Access to Admin Email
An awesome feature was added to WordPress 5.2 that created a recovery mode when a fatal error on the site occurs. Prior to adding …
WordPress Updates Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2
In a continued effort to push WordPress sites to use newer, more secure versions of PHP, WordPress recently bumped the minimum recommended version of …
Remove WooCommerce Marketing Hub Menu Item
WooCommerce 4.1.0 was released yesterday and among the various updates, there’s now a new Marketing tab below the Analytics menu item. This is a …
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 …
How to Easily Add a Website Support Service to Your Web Design Business
Building a freelance web design business or running a small web design studio can be a rewarding career, offering freedom of time and a …
What Happened to the Post Comments Panel in Gutenberg?
When WordPress 5.0 was released with the new default editor, Gutenberg, the editing experience has become much more streamlined. Pallets, tools, and metaboxes have …
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 …
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 …
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 filter Gmail to ensure delivery of emails from own domain
If you have a form on your website that is set up to send notifications to an email address with the same domain, you …
Should I delete the Gutenberg plugin after installing WordPress 5.0?
If you installed the Gutenberg plugin to get a head start on the new ‘Gutenberg’ editor prior to its inclusion in WordPress 5.0, you …