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The best WordPress hosting services consider updates, security, and support. In the best case, you won’t have to worry about updates, hardware, servers, and other technical aspects.
Instead, you can focus on improving your content and design and reaching out to visitors. This is all possible with managed WordPress hosting.
Managed WordPress hosting offers several advantages over general web hosting plans: [Read more…]
Question from Rita: I have a question about WordPress is you don’t mind.
My daughter helped me set up a blog and I’m just now beginning to get the hang of things. I have a question though.
I see on other blogs where they have long posts split up into multiples pages with a link at the bottom to click to go to the next page. I’d like to do that on some of my own posts because they tend to be pretty long.
How do I split my posts up like that? [Read more…]
Do you run a blog or website that’s powered by WordPress?
If so, you’re probably aware that hackers are constantly trying to break into WordPress sites and take them over so they can use them for nefarious purposes.
As you know, using a strong password will help prevent hackers from breaking in to your site’s WordPress Dashboard, but enabling Two-Factor Authentication on your account will add an extra, even stronger layer of protection. [Read more…]
In my opinion, WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform out there. And truth be told, it’s also one of the easiest to use.
There are times however when something goes wrong and your blog simply refuses to load in a web browser.
If you’re new to WordPress it can be quite frightening the first time you see the dreaded “white screen of death” – the stark, solid white error page that WordPress displays when it encounters what it deems to be a catastrophic error. [Read more…]
Question from Oliver: I have a question about WordPress, Rick.
How long do you recommend that we wait before installing updates to WordPress and our themes and plugins?
I’ve seen different people make different recommendations.
Some say to install the updates ASAP right after they are released. Others say to wait a week or two to make sure there aren’t any bugs that could crash the blog.
What’s your opinion on this? [Read more…]