We recently released a major update to Video Dashboard, a free WordPress plugin we originally built years ago to make it easier to put training videos directly inside the WordPress admin dashboard. The plugin has always been simple by design. You add a few videos, choose who should be able to see them, and they appear right on the Dashboard … Read More
Website Email Has Changed. We’re Changing With It. For many years, sending email from a WordPress website was fairly simple. A visitor completed a form. WordPress created an email. The website server sent it. A few seconds later, the message appeared in someone’s inbox. At least, that was how it was supposed to work. Sometimes messages went to spam, and … Read More
If you’re the owner of a WordPress website hosting company and you’re starting to think about selling, there are a number of ways you can increase the selling price of your company. Having bought multiple hosts in addition to running my own hosting company, I’ve seen it all and can tell you what I look for in a hosting company … Read More
Earlier this year, we completed a mid-sized acquisition of a WordPress hosting portfolio with roughly 70 active domains. In this post, I’ll walk through how the entire process worked, from initial conversations to final transition, and highlight what sellers can realistically expect when exiting a hosting business. This is based on a real acquisition from start to finish. The goal … Read More
Ace High Casino is a family-owned casino event company based in the Twin Cities that has been putting on casino-themed events for over 30 years. The events they put on are a ton of fun and they go above and beyond to make sure everyone has a good time. We had already been working with them for a bit when … Read More
You’re the owner of a website hosting company and you’ve been seeing your industry change dramatically as AI becomes more powerful and prevalent. Maybe you’ve been worried about how these changes (real or imagined) might impact the value of your company. Perhaps you’ve even been thinking about exiting the industry and are considering if now is the right time to … Read More
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
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
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
