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WordPress Tutorials

WordPress GitHub Workflows: Version Control Best Practices for Development Teams

Customization, robust data management, intricate functionality — these are some of the complexities of modern WordPress projects. This greater complexity often requires wider development team collaboration. Without proper workflows and tools, a project can quickly […]

WordPress Plugins & Themes

How to Evaluate a WordPress Plugin Before Installing It

WordPress plugins have an undeniable power. They can take a so-so website and turn it into something far more polished. But not all plugins are a good fit. Installing an untrustworthy or poorly coded plugin […]

Running a WordPress Business

Billing for WordPress Hosting Without Confusing Your Clients

Managing WordPress hosting involves technical complexity that doesn’t always translate well for clients. It touches on server management and infrastructure, performance optimization, security management, and a variety of maintenance and support services. This complexity can […]

WordPress Ecommerce

Advanced WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Strategies

As a WooCommerce business owner, you go through a lot of effort to get visitors to your site and help them understand the value of your product. You get them to even drop that product […]

Website Security

WordPress Security Checklist: How To Give Your WordPress Site a Security Audit

As soon as your WordPress site, or any site, goes online, it will come under attack. Bots scour the web looking for sites to compromise and infect. Sites are probed nonstop and attacked hundreds of […]

Hosting Essentials

How Managed WordPress Hosting Reduces Your Ops Workload and Boosts Productivity

Are you struggling to stay on top of server management, up-to-date security, or maintaining adequate backups? These tasks are all part of the operations or “ops” workload for managing a website. The ops workload often […]

WordPress Ecommerce

The Ultimate Ecommerce CRO Guide

Focusing on ecommerce conversion rate optimization (CRO) is one of the most valuable ways to spend your time. Think about it. It costs far more to gain a customer in ecommerce than it does to […]

Running a WordPress Business

How to Set Up a Business Continuity Plan for Your WordPress Website

Many threats can disrupt or  take down your website. While cyberattacks get all the press, other common ways that websites go dark include server issues, human error, and natural disasters. If your business relies on […]

Website Performance

How to Hire the Best WordPress Developer for Your Site

You have your WordPress site set up. You want to improve it, maybe add a custom theme or plugin. Or maybe you have run into problems and need someone with more experience to troubleshoot for […]

Hosting Essentials

Common Mistakes When Choosing a WordPress Host (and How to Avoid Them)

For developers, agencies, and enterprise-level businesses, choosing a hosting solution that will support your needs and grow with you is critical. A website that isn’t set up to operate effectively can damage your reputation or, […]

WordPress Plugins & Themes

Beaver Builder vs. Elementor: Which Page Builder Is Better for Marketing Teams?

Digital marketing is a fast-paced business. Being agile and able to respond quickly and efficiently to market changes or customer needs can have a real impact on the success of your marketing efforts. WordPress page […]

Hosting Essentials

Streamline Your WordPress Site Handoff with Managed WordPress Hosting

While developing a WordPress site has its difficulties, sometimes the real challenge begins when it’s time to hand off the site to the client. The WordPress site handoff is often messy, technically complex, and a […]

Running a WordPress Business

How to Build Recurring Revenue for Your WordPress Agency

Struggling with the ups and downs of project-based income? Would you like more stability and predictability in your income? Developing recurring revenue, where your WordPress agency has predictable, ongoing income from existing clients, offers a […]

WordPress Ecommerce

How to Customize WooCommerce Product Pages: 5 High-Impact Techniques to Boost Sales

Most WooCommerce stores use the default product page layout. It’s a great starting point, but basic templates can fall short when you’re competing with polished product pages from big brands. The good news is that […]

Search Engine Optimization

Migrating Your WordPress Domain: Essential Tips to Avoid Losing SEO

Changing your domain name is like changing your name — it’s a dramatic step, and if you’re not careful, people will be confused about your identity. But WordPress domain name changes happen all the time, […]

Hosting Essentials

When Do You Switch to Enterprise WordPress Hosting?

Cyber Monday arrives, and your business is primed to accommodate website visitors and process carts through checkout…or is it? Unfortunately, your overwhelmed IT person misconfigured the firewall on your dedicated server. This led to your […]

WordPress Ecommerce

WooCommerce PIM: Product Information Management Solutions for Growing WooCommerce Stores

If managing your WooCommerce product catalog feels more like wrangling a spreadsheet than running a store, you’re not alone. As stores grow, so do the product management headaches. Product details get out of sync. Updates […]

Website Security

Automating WordPress Security: Top Tips to Safeguard Your Site From Cyberattacks

Many business owners treat WordPress website security incidents as something that happens to someone else. But the reality is that security breaches are common, with nearly three-quarters of respondents (72%) to a 2024 Melapress WordPress […]

WordPress Ecommerce

Integrating POS with WooCommerce: Simplify Sales, Inventory, and Customer Management

Businesses often have to straddle two worlds — retail locations and online stores. Managing this commerce split is challenging, and problems can quickly pile up when there isn’t a centralized sales platform in place. A […]

Running a WordPress Business

Scale Your WordPress: Automation Tips for Growth, Efficiency, and Reliability

Your entrepreneurial dream has come true! Your business is growing, and your WordPress website traffic is scaling. But this brings its own challenges — occasional website crashes during sales events and more complex operations to […]

WordPress Tutorials

How to Edit Your WordPress Database Safely

Editing the WordPress database can feel intimidating, and for good reason. Apart from a few static files, the database stores everything that gives your site its identity: posts, pages, users, settings, and plugin configurations. A […]