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WordPress Tips & Tricks

What Does It Mean to Be Customer-Centric?

A customer-centric business model is undeniably effective. According to a study by Deloitte and Touche, it’s nearly 60% more effective in generating profits. But, here’s the thing: customer-centricity doesn’t just apply to one-on-one interactions with…

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WordPress Tutorials

WordPress basics for building a WordPress site

Logging in to WordPress Once you have signed up for one of our WordPress hosting plans, it’s time to begin building your new WordPress website. To start, visit the My Sites page of the MyPressable…

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WordPress Tips & Tricks

Making the Switch to Managed WordPress Hosting

Before making the switch from self- or general-hosting to Managed WordPress hosting for agencies, an agency must consider many important points. When a client trusts your agency to host their website, you must ensure that…

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WordPress eCommerce

Using Email Marketing to Grow Your eCommerce Store

Email has been around as long as…well, as long as the Internet. For over 30 years, people have been communicating online via email, and that’s why it’s such a wonderful marketing tool for a WooCommerce…

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WordPress eCommerce

The Top Three WooCommerce Extensions to Manage Sales Tax

In the last few months, sales tax collection has suddenly become a lot more complicated. Like, a lot more complicated. A Supreme Court ruling from this June has allowed for state-by-state legislation that requires businesses…

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WordPress Plugins & Themes

Simple Automatic WordPress Plugin Updates with StagingPilot

“All my WordPress sites are 100% up-to-date,” said no one, ever. There are new WordPress plugin and theme updates every day, and if you’re managing multiple sites, it’s a huge chore to keep them updated….

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Running a WordPress Business

SEO Should be FOM for Freelancers and Design Agencies – Part 2

In WordPress world today, every web developer, designer and marketer is looking to get into the SEO game. But, where should you even start? With so many tools and tips out there, it can be…

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Website Security

It Takes a Village – WordPress Site Plugin Security & Beyond

There’s no question about it when it comes to site security: you need to keep your data and your customers’ information safe. But that means keeping track of all the different ways your site might…

Woman thinking about how to improve her agency's SEO capabilities.
Running a WordPress Business

SEO Should be FOM for Freelancers and Design Agencies – Part 1

In the WordPress and agency space, there is a certain topic that is increasingly on everyone’s mind: SEO (search engine optimization). While my friends in the web community are stellar visual designers and web developers,…

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Running a WordPress Business

Freelance Contracts: Where Do I Even Start?

Let’s face it. No one really wants to write up a contract. There are so many different parts and so many ways it might go wrong. What if you forget to include a schedule of…

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WordPress Tutorials

Adding Automation to Your WordPress Site – Part II

As the preceding post on automation revealed, the addition of simple plugins to your WordPress site can go a long way to relieving you of time-consuming maintenance work. In this post we’ll delve deeper into…

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Website Security

Is WordPress Secure?

Below is a transcript from Kori Ashton’s YouTube Video: Is WordPress Secure? Hey y’all I’m Kori Ashton and you’re probably doing a search trying to figure out, is WordPress secure? Over and over again, we…

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WordPress Tutorials

Adding Automation to Your WordPress Site – Part I

Automation is a term that often conjures up images of robotics, AI, and impersonal mechanization. While the idea of relinquishing control of your WordPress site to automation may sound less than appealing, adding automation to…

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WordPress Tutorials

How to Update DNS Settings When You Switch WordPress Hosting Providers

In December 2014, we published a three-part series of articles on DNS. We explored the most commonly misunderstood topics related to the domain name system (DNS): registrars and name servers, zones and records, and record…

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Search Engine Optimization

Configuring Your Yoast XML Sitemap and Advanced Settings the Right Way

In today’s post, we’ll look at XML Yoast sitemaps and advanced settings. XML Sitemaps Having your site indexed by search engines is the first and most basic step of SEO. Search engines look for sitemaps in order…

WordPress Tutorials

GitHub and CircleCI Deployment via SFTP

The tutorial will focus on setting up CircleCI config.yml file to deploy the master branch of a GitHub repository via SFTP. To follow along with this tutorial you will need: 1. A theme or plugin that you…

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Running a WordPress Business

Pros and Cons of Contract Work

Contracts: Nobody Wants One Until You Wish You Had One We’ve all been there. You said you would do one thing, but the client wanted something else. Now you and your client are exchanging awkward…

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Running a WordPress Business

Top Five Remote Working Hacks for a Better Workday

Ah…remote working. No dress code. No commute. No limits on where you can set up your laptop and get to work. What could be better? Turns out, working remotely isn’t as easy as you might…

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Running a WordPress Business

Agency or a Freelancer – Which Is Right for Your Business?

There’s no doubt about it–the ‘gig economy’ is taking over the world. Some economists claim that by 2027, the majority of workers in the US will be freelance, hawking their skills off to those who…

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WordPress Plugins & Themes

How to Install a WordPress Theme

Ready to install a WordPress theme?  Great!  There are tons of resources online when it comes to themes. We recommend themes from the WordPress.org Theme Directory. If you’re looking for a Premium theme we recommend…

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WordPress Tutorials

How to migrate your site from WordPress.com

Did you know that Pressable will migrate up to five managed hosted WordPress sites from other hosts for free? If you’d like us to migrate your site log in to your MyPressable account and create…