…despite your hosting company telling you to do so. In my previous post (from ages ago because I don’t write things on this blog often enough as I’m busy working on other people’s websites) I wrote about being told by tech support at Bluehost that my client should be using Cloudflare. I wrote back and pointed out why that wasn’t going to happen. Here is another reason to avoid Cloudflare. … Continue reading →
Probably not. Maybe. But probably not. Should you put in a support ticket with your hosting company it’s likely (based on my personal experience) that the very first response they will have is to tell you “you are using too many resources.” Because if the problem is you, not them, they don’t have to do any work. You may ask “What are these resources I’m using too many of?” Good … Continue reading →
When running a website it’s important to know when your services run out and who you have to pay for them. If you don’t . . . bad things are going to happen. Just like a bad thing happened to me. Many moons ago when I first hit the interwebz I bought my very first domain name. It’s the site which has become my photography website. On The Fly Photography. … Continue reading →
I hate Facebook. Have I mentioned that? I’ve actually dreamed about deleting my Linkedin account and woken up smiling. Twitter is the only form of social media you’ll ever catch me enjoying. All I want to do is automatically send my WordPress posts to Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. I’ve tested multiple plugins and with the exception of Jetpack they have all failed. Get Jetpack here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ Jetpack Pros: Easy to … Continue reading →
Howdy. Let’s talk about size. Specifically the size of your WordPress database. Size does matter. Regardless of what you’ve been told. If you database gets too large and full of junk it can slow down your site. I’ve embarked on a voyage of discovery. The goal being to clean up and trim down my WordPress databases. Here are my experiences so far with two plugins. WP-Optimize This plugin helps you … Continue reading →
Here is an introduction video to using BackWPup to backup WordPress. This video is intended for people who are new to WordPress and the concepts of backing up a site. Not intended for advanced users. If you are an advanced user you will be bored out of your mind watching this. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Find BackWPup here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ Note that BackWPup does not have an option to … Continue reading →
Did you get an email that looks like this? Me too. So have my clients. Don’t click the link. Don’t panic. It’s just a scam. The first clue that this is a scam is when it says you need to solve your problem of too many directories by creating another directory. Your hosting company may contact you if you have what they consider to be too many files on the … Continue reading →
There are many reasons broken links may be on your website. Sites you pointed to no longer exist. URLs at other sites have changed. The link was typed in wrong. You changed things on your site and moved something. Hunting down broken links is time consuming but necessary for your site to work right. Additionally multiple broken links on your site doesn’t reflect well on you. Like it or not … Continue reading →
A while back (a longish while back) I posted about blocking Seamalt.com from your website. In the time since there there have been some developments. 0. I noticed that I was spelling “semalt” wrong. I was typing “seamalt”. And I’ve got in wrong in this post as well. That’s bad website building. People should be able to spell your URL. Ha! 1. Another spam referral website has come to prominence. … Continue reading →
Get YOURLS: http://yourls.org/ I’ve been experimenting with the YOURLS link shortener and in this video I’ll give you an over view of what it does, can do and can’t do. I’ll show you some tips, plugins I added and talk about mistakes I made. I’ll also show you how to integrate YOURLS with your WordPress installation. Leave questions, comments and ideas in the comment section. I’ll get back to you … Continue reading →