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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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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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How to Create Eye-catching WordPress Announcements

Why would you need to make an announcement on your website? Well, because your visitors want you to. That’s why. Here’s the thing though: while your visitors want to hear about special discounts, new products, relevant…

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Setting up WordPress on Laravel Homestead

Laravel Homestead is a prepackaged Vagrant box that provides a development environment for Laravel. It’s packed with PHP, MySQL, Nginx and everything else you need to run a local web server. Homestead is great for developing in Laravel,…

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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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Using wp_query to expand your WordPress Site’s Functions

WordPress developers are constantly looking at ways to improve the functionality and performance of their clients’ sites. To aid in this effort, WordPress includes an extensive library of functions that can be used to add features and functionality to…

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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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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…

Using two factor authentication to keep WordPress site secure.
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WordPress Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

There are many vectors of attack that can compromise your WordPress website, and the list is growing as hackers are improving their methods. But oddly enough, brute force attacks remain one of the largest and…

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REST API in WordPress: When, Why, and How to Use It

Think of how much of your business data you store in WordPress. What if you could access it and use it in different applications? Thankfully you can do that with the REST API in WordPress….

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Page Redirection: How to Set up Redirects in WordPress

One of the biggest reasons why WordPress is so popular is because there is pretty much a plugin to help solve any problem you may have. One of the most common problems we get asked about…