I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
Best Managed WordPress Hosting Companies
Managed WordPress hosting has become a hot product over the last few years. The advantages of good hosting are that your site will load faster, making your customers happy, and helping you rank higher in search engines. Many businesses start out with $10/month shared hosting, which generally sucks. Cheap shared hosting makes money for the […]
Prevent Google From Crawling Old Sitemaps
As our websites mature, we often move from doing things one way to a different, more efficient way. But sometimes, the footprint of how our site used to work remains behind. Recently, I had a client come to me with a most intriguing problem. They had a large e-commerce site, that had gone through many […]
The Dangers Of Cowboy Coding
Cowboy coding is not a term that is familiar to business owners. There are even some web developers for whom this is a strange term. But it is something that you should be on the lookout for, as a business owner, or as a web developer. Just like the lawless frontiers of the Wild West, […]
WordPress Website Migration Checklist
For those who don’t know, a website migration is when you move a website from one hosting environment to another. This could be moving a website from a staging server to production server (from development to the live site). It could also mean moving the site from a sub-domain to another domain on the same […]
Why Does Web Hosting Matter?
There are businesses that spend large amounts on developing a website, but cut corners when it comes to web hosting. What is web hosting? Why does it matter? Essentially, web hosting is the server space where your website resides. But isn’t it all the same? Just as the physical location of a business has an […]
Increase Maximum File Upload Size In WordPress
WordPress limits the size of media files you can upload to 2MB. Sometimes we need to increase the maximum file upload size in the WordPress Admin > Media to a number higher than this. There are a couple of ways to do this. Be forewarned, if you are on shared hosting, these may not work. […]
Better Ways To Check Broken Links In WordPress
Broken links on your website are bad user experience. When customers click on dead links and they go to 404 pages over and over, it hurts your credibility. This erodes trust in your website, which affects conversions and sales. While Google says they don’t lose sleep over broken links and 404 (page not found) errors, […]
When FTP Uploads Are Not Visible in WP Media Library
UPDATE March 23rd, 2018: Add From Server was closed as a plugin on the WordPress repo as of earlier today. No details yet on whether this was an action by the plugin author or the Plugin Review team. UPDATE March 28th, 2018 The plugin author had the plugin removed temporarily and stated the following: “Plugin […]
How To Improve Page Speed In WordPress
Today, I’d like to share some tips for improving your page speed in WordPress. Performance and optimizing for page speed are now as much a part of web development as writing code. There are several reasons performance matters. The most important is user experience. The faster your WordPress website loads, the less likely a user […]