DNS, or Domain Name System, is a crazy-cool system of resolving domain name requests to their appropriate sources. DNS is a powerful tool for those who understand how to use it. But, let’s not get too technical (that’s what our support site is for). Here’s our absolute favorite video about how DNS works from our …
Let’s not get our terms jumbled. Feature requests do not count as “Support.” Let’s take a quick look at how JDM Digital defines “Support.”
Let’s not get hung up on jargon. We define a single revision round as a presentation of the latest version of a design or technology to the client. Then, the client gets to make as many requests for changes to that version as they like within a single document or email or whatever. Once each …
When we’re talking about sending emails via “SMTP,” we’re referring to how we’re going to send emails generated by a server. SMTP is the exact same “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” as you use for Outlook. In this way, emails sent via SMTP look, for all intents and purposes, like normal emails–not server-generated suspicious emails. You …
We often recommend that website owners do not share the root or default FTP account access information with ANY third party. That is for their security. We do, however, recommend that if you need to give FTP access to your site to someone, you create a new FTP account. Add New FTP Account Creating a …
As of WordPress v3.0, WordPress has the ability to create a network of sites by using the multisite feature baked right into the core. This is all WordPress lingo for allowing an unlimited number of distinct WordPress site’s to be created under a single WordPress install (single sign-in, single installation, single hosting). The feature was …
On computer filesystems, different files and directories have permissions that specify who and what can read, write, modify and access them. Often, server-side applications need to be able to edit, read, write and even delete files on your behalf. When the permission settings don’t allow for that, weird things happen. Here’s how to change file …
WordPress comes right out of the box with unlimited numbers of users and 5 user roles (permissions, essentially). To access, view or add users, go to Users >> All Users. Roles Here’s a quick summary of capabilities for each of the 5 user roles: Administrator – can access to all the administration features within a single …
A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the globe. Their real value comes when you think about latency–or the time it takes for your information to be delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away from your actual web server. Besides …
With 5+ million active installs, WordPress SEO by Yoast is the #1 most-used SEO plugin. If you’re not using it for, we hope you have a very good reason.
WordPress v4.5.2 was just released and includes some great new and updated features. Here’s a little background on this latest release of the WordPress core. About WordPress v4.5 Here’s a little video by the WordPress team, if you’re into that sort of thing. As with all major WordPress updates, there are numerous bug fixes and …
You are probably used to the way you install and update plugins and themes via the WordPress.org repo. However, sometimes nerds like us at JDM Digital want another way to do it. If the plugin is something we’re still actively working on and you want to install it on your site, we recommend you use …