John HughesOctober 12, 2018October 9, 2018 Why Neglecting Usability Can Undermine Your WordPress Site’s Security Usability testing is one of those unglamorous tasks that are often left for another day. It can be difficult to justify the time and budget required to check every button, link, and function on a website. It's a luxury that many online…Read The Story
John HughesOctober 10, 2018October 11, 2018 5 Tips for Effective Enterprise WordPress Development A successful business website should smoothly guide prospective customers through each phase of your conversion funnel. To do this, you'll need to make sure your site is scalable, fast-loading, secure, and designed for a quality user experience (UX). Of course, striking the…Read The Story
Raelene MoreyAugust 27, 2018October 11, 2018 · Featured How Managed WordPress Hosting Can Level Up Your Business Running a successful online enterprise involves more than just product development, marketing, and customer service. It's also critical that your website provide a solid foundation for both running and scaling your business. You are not an expert in web hosting, and you…Read The Story
Doug BonderudFebruary 27, 2018July 16, 2018 · Featured Worried about WordPress and GDPR? Start Here The general data protection regulation (GDPR) comes into force May 25th, 2018. It covers both the European Union and Great Britain- which amounts to more than 500 million users. WordPress, meanwhile, owns more than 50 percent of the CMS market and powers…Read The Story
Raelene MoreyNovember 30, 2017July 15, 2018 · Featured 40 Must-Read Blogs for Leadership & Entrepreneurs Countless entrepreneurs have written about their personal experiences -- their wildly successful ventures and stunning failures. Some are so transparent that they publish their financials for others to dissect and comment upon. These 40 blogs for C-suite, executives and entrepreneurs are must-reads,…Read The Story
Suzanne ScaccaOctober 5, 2018October 12, 2018 Disaster Recovery Plan: Why Your Website Needs One to Survive The word "disaster" is one you never want to hear in business. Even if it's a seemingly minor disaster, it usually means taking time away from business to investigate the root cause, clean up the mess, update processes, and sometimes even apologize…Read The Story
Manam IqbalOctober 3, 2018October 12, 2018 Be a Master Networker: 4 Ways to Activate Your Network For a long time, I thought I knew everything there was about professional networking. Collecting business cards during lunches, speaking engagements and conferences was an important ritual I followed with consistency. These cards would then sit on my desk in a nice,…Read The Story
Joshua StrebelSeptember 28, 2018September 30, 2018 Nine Years of Managed WordPress A look back - and forward. We launched Pagely in August 2009. Now, nine years later, Managed WordPress Hosting is a multi-billion-dollar channel. I'm not sure even we saw that coming back then. The channel grew slowly at first, then quickly took…Read The Story
John HughesSeptember 26, 2018October 12, 2018 9 Tools You Should Be Using In Your Plugin Development As web technology rapidly (and constantly) advances, it's important to learn how to use modern technology to keep up with your rival developers, or risk losing out on much-needed work. While there's a little bit of a learning curve for every new…Read The Story
Raelene MoreySeptember 20, 2018September 21, 2018 6 Tips for Big Brands That Want to Kill It On Social Media Consumers expect a lot from big brands when it comes to social media. They look to their Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for any indication of how they do business and how they treat their customers. They want to see that brands…Read The Story
Tammy CoronSeptember 18, 2018July 18, 2018 The Guide to Creating Custom Shortcodes in WordPress WordPress Shortcodes are nothing new. In fact, they've been around since version 2.5. Acting like macros, shortcodes are used to 1) reduce the amount of code you need to write; 2) simplify the usage of plugins, themes, and other functions. WordPress comes…Read The Story
Suzanne ScaccaSeptember 12, 2018July 15, 2018 The Complete Guide to Building a WordPress Speed Optimization Plan Imagine you have a big meeting your team has been preparing for all month. You know where the meeting is, when you need to be there, and what to bring. However, the employee responsible for collecting all the materials for the meeting--the…Read The Story
John HughesSeptember 5, 2018September 17, 2018 5 Ways to Use the WordPress .htaccess File to Improve Your Site Every WordPress website, no matter how simple, is powered by dozens of files. One of the most important of these is called .htaccess and it enables you to add a lot of amazing features to your site. However, understanding how it works…Read The Story