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WordPress Website Migration Doesn’t Need to be Frightening
WordPress is the most popular CMS platform in the world. It’s easy to sign up, it’s user-friendly, and offers a variety of plug-ins. But there may come a time when you want to migrate from…
Adding Custom Headers to Your WordPress Site
If you’d like to add custom headers to your site, we recommend doing so by creating a file called custom-redirects.php in your site root, if it is not there already. As we…
What is Divi Hosting?
Overview Elegant Themes and Pressable are proud to introduce Divi Hosting. Get a powerful hosting plan that comes with Divi Theme Builder already installed. Here’s how it works: Customer Control Panels All…
3 Reasons to Change Your WordPress Host Provider
Bills that just keep getting bigger. Wait times with support that just keep getting longer. And your websites just never seem to load. Do any of these sound familiar to you? Then you’re probably sick…
Managing ads.txt in WordPress
An ads.txt file helps ensure that your ads are only sold through sellers (e.g. AdSense) who you’ve authorized. This file belongs in the root of the server and should be accessible at…
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…
Accessing WordPress Error Logs on Your Site
In this article, we will review how to access WordPress error logs for your website to assist in debugging a problem and identifying theme and plugin errors. This error log file is…
Why You Need a 24/7 Support Partner and Managed Hosting
One of the biggest changes in the hosting space over the past decade has been the introduction of fully managed WordPress hosting. 10 years ago if you wanted to host your WordPress site, your only…
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…
How To Tell The Perfect Customer Story
We asked our friends at Flank, an agency that specializes in startup marketing, to share some of their knowledge about leveraging customer success stories in digital marketing. Unlike interviewing your colleague at the next desk…
7 Most Common WordPress Developer Mistakes
One of the best things about WordPress is that it’s open source. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can get online and begin using it. Heck, with enough coding knowledge and drive, they…
Accessing A WordPress Database with Pressable
How to Access a WordPress Database For security reasons, we do not allow remote access to a Pressable site’s database. We also do not allow remote connections to external databases. For more…
WordPress Performance Issues: Is It Your Server or Your Site?
A website is like a building. The structure is your code and database, the land it is on is your server, and its address is your domain name. In order for a user to have…
Using the WordPress Query Monitor Plugin
Note: The Query Monitor plugin should be deactivated when not in use. Leaving the plugin active can cause performance issues. What is Query Monitor? The Query Monitor plugin is a free debugging…
Using the Pressable Automated Migration Plugin
The Pressable Automated Migration plugin makes it easy to migrate your sites to the Pressable platform. Whether you are a developer with a lot of experience moving sites or have never moved…
Modifying Cache Times in Batcache
By default, Batcache, our page caching mechanism, will cache pages for five minutes, if the pages get at least two visits in two minutes. This might be OK for a site that…
How does Batcache page caching work?
Batcache WordPress page caching is one of the three levels of caching Pressable uses to ensure your site loads quickly and efficiently. To achieve page caching, we use a drop-in plugin called…
How to prevent Batcache page caching on Pressable
Pressable uses Batcache and Memcached to store and serve rendered pages. However, there are times where you might not want something cached, such as a specific page or cookie. This guide will…
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…
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…
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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