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
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
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
Recently we’ve seen a few cases of a new WordPress hack which manages to display Google ads on every page of a website, but only for logged-out users. You may also experience other mysterious symptoms such as pages being moved to the trash. While it’s not particularly malicious, it’s still annoying and can undermine the credibility of your organization, in … Read More
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
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
Network Solutions is a lot like a physical bank. Everyone hates it and it’s way overpriced, but you find yourself forced to go there every so often because it’s where you set up your account in the 90s and it’s too much work to move now. What’s more: this is exactly what they are counting on. Network Solutions, along with … Read More
If you’re thinking about changing your domain name for your existing WordPress website, you’ll need to follow some basic steps to make sure you do it right. In addition to causing delays and headaches, if you don’t do things right you could permanently ruin your search engine rankings and cause a variety of other disastrous consequences. In this guide, we’ll … Read More
I’m writing here because I can’t seem to find anyone else who is talking about it, but in the last week or so, I’ve noticed a massive increase in comment spam within WordPress, primarily from Russian sources. All week, clients have been reaching out to me thinking that their websites were hacked because, out of nowhere, they are seeing tons … Read More
I recently came across an interesting issue with a client website which was hosted at GoDaddy. They couldn’t seem to add or save featured images to their blog posts. When loading the media library, everything loaded extremely slowly. It seemed you could add a featured image, it was just extremely slow. The image wouldn’t quite load right but it seemed … Read More
