7 years ago this month, Pagely® launched as a service that aimed to smooth and eliminate some of the technical hurdles of launching and hosting a WordPress powered site. It was a brand new category at the time, and now Managed WordPress Hosting is an ubiquitous channel within the broader Hosting industry. Estimates paint just this […]
The update happened faster than I could write this haiku about it. All sites have been updated to address 2 security related issues. Further details on the release can be found here: wordpress.org
Inside the WordPress developer community there is the mantra “Decisions not Options” which when applied to the UX/UI of the WordPress application attempts to streamline the user experience by making sensible choices on behalf the user and reducing confusion and clutter. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make […]
WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” has been released. We’ll be starting the rollout on Aug. 23 and should have all customers updated within the week.
What is Web Accessibility And How To Create Accessible Websites? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people have vision impairments and around 15 percent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. As websites and mobile applications have grown rich and creative, they have become less accessible to these […]
Even the most productive workers fall victim to procrastination, and while the occasional visit to Facebook may not cause you to miss a deadline, you could find those lost minutes adding up to a lot of wasted time. Since entrepreneurs and business owners know that time is money, squandering your work hours can mean less […]
The vulnerability d’jour this week was named HTTPoxy, an applicable pun on pox and proxy. We have patched our servers for this already, and are here to take a few extra steps to help explain the vulnerability and hopefully spread a little knowledge. The first part of this post will explain how the HTTPoxy vulnerability […]
A pox on proxy headers; that are misused by some developers. Updates to our server configs are being pushed out that remove any “Proxy:” values attempted to be set by a request header. More details here: httpoxy.org
One of WordPress’ great advantages over other non-open source CMS’ is the ability to edit any line of code. If you get a theme that doesn’t do exactly what you want, you can dig into the code and customize it. The issue though is that when the author publishes a theme update that includes a newer version of […]
All of your WordPress sites on Pagely are automatically backed up nightly and made available for download via your Atomic dashboard interface. Did you know though you can set it up so your backups also automatically accrue under your own Amazon S3 account? There are a number of reasons why you might want to do […]
