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WordPress Tips & Tricks

Why does my site say “Briefly Down For Scheduled Maintenance”?

Is your website showing the “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” message? You may encounter this message when applying updates to your site. This happens because a plugin or theme was interrupted before it could finish the updates […]

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WordPress Tips & Tricks

13 Tips for WordPress Website Management

Your website is an indispensable part of your brand. It’s often one of the first points of contact that you have with potential customers, so it should be accessible, informative, and up-to-date. But sometimes, it’s […]

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WordPress Tips & Tricks

Why Should You Use WordPress for Your Website?

Choosing a content management system is one of the very first things to do when you set out to create a website. It’s also one of the most important. WordPress is the most popular CMS […]

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WordPress Plugins & Themes

How Many WordPress Plugins Are Too Many Plugins?

WordPress plugins are a great way to quickly and easily expand the functionality of your site. From SEO and social media integration to 301 redirects and inquiry forms, there are so many plugins to select […]

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Hosting Essentials

When Do You Need Dedicated Hosting?

When it comes to running a business, it makes sense to own or have total control of an asset that is important to making your company run. Dedicated hosting allows you to do just that. […]

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WordPress Tips & Tricks

Dealing With PHP Issues

When it comes to troubleshooting technology, everyone loves the tried-and-true methods of rebooting or hitting it really hard. Unfortunately, those solutions don’t help much when dealing with PHP issues on your WordPress site.  In this […]

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Running a WordPress Business

When Your Web Design Client Fails to Deliver Content

So you or your agency builds WordPress websites. That’s awesome. Thanks for being part of the economic ecosystem that has built over 43% of the web! If you’re like most agencies, you run into ta […]

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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

Top 3 WooCommerce Sales Tax Extensions

The topic of nexus and sales tax can be overwhelming to WooCommerce store owners. Knowing where you have nexus and tracking the countless tax rates across states, counties, and cities can be daunting. Who has time […]

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Running a WordPress Business

Where to Start With Freelance Contracts

Let’s face it. No one really likes creating contracts. Contracts are boring and they take the fun out of working freelance. But, they are absolutely necessary to protect the freelancer and the client! Luckily, freelancers contracts […]

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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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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 or a Premium theme from the WordPress.org Premium theme Directory. […]

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WordPress Ecommerce

How to Effectively Scale Your WooCommerce Store

If you’re a WooCommerce store owner, then chances are you’re focused on growth. More traffic, more products, more customers, and more sales. But, success doesn’t just mean growing at the fastest rate possible. You need […]

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Search Engine Optimization

10 WooCommerce SEO Tips to Boost Your Rankings

When you’re trying to drive more traffic to your WooCommerce store there are plenty of options available. From paid traffic and social media to email marketing and SEO, building an online presence is within reach. […]

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WordPress Tutorials

How You Can Easily Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

If you’re a developer or run an agency, then you’re probably going to be managing multiple WordPress websites. Managing multiple WordPress sites can end up being  extremely time consuming, and that’s not even including the […]

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WordPress Ecommerce

5 Common WooCommerce Issues and How to Fix Them

WooCommerce is arguably one of the best ecommerce software options out there, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without its issues. Sure, you can get your store up and running in record time, but what […]

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WordPress Ecommerce

Ways to Reduce WooCommerce Cart Abandonment

A dilemma that every WooCommerce store faces is to have your customers abandon their cart just before heading to the checkout page. Unfortunately, this can happen quite a lot and it can be a huge […]

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Running a WordPress Business

How Agencies Can Benefit From a Client Retention System

Your agency needs an effective client retention system, plain and simple. Without one, you’ll continuously be on the search for new clients. Whenever a new project ends, you’re back out there again, chasing down leads, […]

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WordPress Tutorials

How to Setup a Local WordPress Development Environment

When you’re building out a WordPress website you’re going to have a few different options for building and deploying your website. You can either build and make changes to your site live (not recommended), use […]

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WordPress Tips & Tricks

7 Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them

WordPress is a great piece of software that works fine most of the time. But there are times when things stop working. Maybe WordPress can’t connect to the database or maybe some files have been […]