I used to run a few small blogs on basic Bluehost shared account. They ran perfectly fine for several years but the limitations of running several blogs on such a basic service started to become apparent when growth was necessary. Specifically, the need to add Let’s...
I was recently asked by a client to fix a strange issue on their site. One of their pages was suffering from an infinite redirect loop when users weren’t logged in. Since the page worked fine for logged in users and the site was a membership site, it led me to...
I’ve already shared how to create backups using BackWPUp. The only downside of BackWPUp is that it doesn’t have a 1-click restore feature. Until such a feature is developed, this post is what you’ll want to come back to when you’re faced with...
There are several backup plugins available for WordPress. I’m a big fan of Duplicator but if you want your backups to be handled automatically then it’s hard to beat the free BackWPUp. The schedule your determine for your automatic backups depends on...
While working on a recent project, I was faced with the task of preventing users from going click-crazy on the page while they waited for an AJAX call to be completed. I didn’t have time to manually disable all the page’s actionable elements and needed...
Having grown up in the era before Auto-Saves and Dropbox, I was constantly reminded that Ctrl+S was a shortcut that I needed to use every two minutes. If you didn’t heed this advice you were guaranteed to lose your work because that’s just how life worked...
Not too long ago I was assigned a task that involved a bit of back-end magic. Part of the assignment called for creating a page that would display the name of a US State passed in a URL parameter. The issue with parameters in WordPress is that, aside from the...
Images. You’re going to need them on your webpages. They’ll not only help make your site look better and keep your visitors engaged but they help increase your site’s rank on search engines. The thing is, you can’t just throw images on your...
In a recent post we showed you how to add users to Google Webmaster Tools so that other team members could view the data they need to keep expanding your site. This time we’ll be showing you how to add users to Google Analytics so that those team members will...
As your site starts growing you’re going to need to start sharing resources with other team members in order to better manage all that data. Adding new managers to Webmaster Tools isn’t exactly a hidden feature but you want to make sure you assign the...
