Linux Command Line Basics For WordPress Developers
I've written on many marketing and beginner topics. It is time to give my WordPress developers some love. The linux command line is something that strikes fear into many WordPress developers. Even some really great ones. But there is no need to be scared. Learning the...
8 Reasons You Need A Dedicated WordPress Support Services Team
Benefits Of Our Awesome WordPress Support Services Team When you’re busy with the details of running your business and making money, you need to know how to prioritize the aspects of your business that are necessary but not your expertise. Unfortunately for your...
WordPress Ransomware Protection
One of the most frequently asked questions we get is how to protect a WordPress website from ransomware. It is a two part answer. First keep your site software updated to reduce the possibility of known bugs that hackers will exploit. The second part, and this is very...
wp-admin 404 Page Not Found Error
I ran into an interesting problem today. A client who was not under a maintenance service contract was updating their own site. The WordPress core update had a conflict with their WordPress theme which resulted in a website crash. Naturally they called us. I fixed the...
Do I Need An SSL Certificate For My Website?
My name is Kim and I have a blog. I love blogging! EXCEPT, all of the techie stuff that goes along with being a website owner. As my blogging friends starting talking about a certificate for SSL…what?!? I started to panic because I didn’t have a clue about the topic!...
WordPress Optimization
There are several improvements that can be done to optimize WordPress for large sites. Use The System Cron WordPress has a task scheduler called wp-cron. It checks if tasks are ready to be run on each page hit. This is overkill. We can have the operating system cron...
WP Template Parts vs CSS Styles And Scripts
One of our major goals at OnSiteWP is to make WordPress sites easy for businesses to own. Both Mark and I enjoy digging under the hood of websites but you may not hear us "speaking geek" because we understand that our clients have better things to do than listen to us...
Reduce Distractions on Android Phones
While we are a WordPress based company, we still have other technology in our lives. Today I'd like to step away from WordPress and give a productivity tip. Lately the Facebook and Twitter apps on my phone have been alerting like crazy. Maybe that's a good thing and...
WooCommerce 3.0 Technical Advisory
Our engineers at OnSiteWP follow the large developments in the WordPress community. One such development is the release of WooCommerce 3.0. The new version of WooCommerce is a major update. By major we mean that your plugins and themes need to be compatible with this...
The Importance of WordPress Backups
Having a good, restorable backup copy of your website is something that OnSiteWP cannot stress enough. It's why we include WordPress site backups with all of our maintenance packages. One of the frequently asked questions we receive is why do we perform backups when...