Managed WordPress Plan vs. Basic Website Hosting

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Most small business owners understand that they need to have website hosting and it makes sense that when they first, they gravitate towards the most basic, cheapest options available. Many are not aware that there are far better options out there for most businesses that cover more of their bases. In this post, I’m going to highlight the differences between … Read More

PageCrafter Acquires WordPress Hosting Clients from The Bitworks, Inc.

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We are thrilled to announce that we have acquired the website hosting services from Taylors Falls-based company, The Bitworks, Inc. This marks another step in PageCrafter’s ongoing strategy of acquiring WordPress hosting and website management portfolios from IT firms and independent agencies. Contact and Reasons for Sale The Bitworks founder, Matt Sonnentag, originally reached out to us in early 2025 … Read More

Greed: Rackspace’s Extreme Price Increases

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I recently received a shocking email from Rackspace. It was cold and calculated. Heartless even. Here it is in its entirety:

At first glance, this might not seem that shocking to you. But here’s the thing… My previous per-mailbox price was $2.50. That’s a 300% increase. Shared to me in an extremely brief email. No explanation, no apologies. Just … Read More

The Easiest Way to Take & Share a Screenshot in Windows

Almost nobody seems to know about the fastest and easiest way to take and share a screenshot in Windows, and it’s built-in natively to the OS. When designing new websites or maintaining websites for our clients, we find ourselves having to make and share screenshots of portions of the screen all the time. Fortunately, it’s so easy to do. The … Read More

PageCrafter Update for 2025

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I can’t believe we’re already well into 2025! Which means that my quarterly newsletter is now just-shy of 7 quarters late, beating out my previous record of 24 quarters. I’m both an optimist and a fan of metrics, so I would just call this a 70% improvement. The last year-and-a-half have been quite exciting for me both personally and professionally. … Read More

How to Remove rel=nofollow from Comment Reply Links in WordPress

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If you’re here, more than likely you are trying to fix an SEO issue identified on your WordPress website by an SEO Tool like SEMrush or ahrefs. During an audit of your site, they probably mentioned that you have “Nofollow attributes in outgoing internal links”. Digging deeper, you may have realized that these “nofollow” links are coming from your comment … Read More

How to Manually Restore WordPress Core Files

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We find often that we need to restore WordPress core files manually. Maybe we suspect that a hack has taken hold of them and made changes, or perhaps they have somehow become corrupted. Regardless, it’s something I often discuss doing in other posts, and I figured I’d put together a quick tutorial. This video walks you through it step-by-step but … Read More

WordPress Hack Becoming More Common – Symptoms and Solution

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We’ve been dealing with an uptick in hacked WordPress websites lately, and they all appear to have the same symptoms. If you’ve seen these symptoms, you have probably been hacked too, unfortunately. Luckily, we will outline not only how this particular hack works but also the steps you can take to resolve it. But fair warning: most of these steps … Read More

How to Make Second-Level Indents for Lists in Gmail

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This is a nice and easy one today. While we spend most of our time maintaining WordPress websites for our clients, I actually use Gmail/Google Workspace as my email client of choice. This was just one of the things I couldn’t figure out immediately. I found myself unable to figure out how to indent an item in a bulleted or … Read More