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October 2017

Fix WordPress Search with Relevanssi

The built-in WordPress search function returns results based on recency, not relevancy. That sucks. Relevanssi is an awesome WordPress plugin that fixes it.

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October 2017

Change WordPress Password via phpMyAdmin

If you are unable to change or reset your WordPress password, there is a way to change it directly from the WordPress database using phpMyAdmin. Here’s how.

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October 2017

How to Redirect Domain but Preserve Everything After

If you’re moving domain names, it’s ideal to redirect and keep everything after the URL. Here’s an HTaccess directive that does just that.

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September 2017

AMP with Progressive Web Apps in WordPress

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in WordPress work best when combined. Here’s how.

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September 2017

What is the Google Search Console?

Google Search Console helps website owners better understand and troubleshoot their site’s presence in Google Search results.

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August 2017

How DNS Actually Works

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 …

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January 2017

Sending via SMTP?

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 …

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November 2016

Create a New FTP Account

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 …

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November 2016

A Guide to WordPress Multisite

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 …

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October 2016

Changing File Permissions

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 …

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October 2016

WordPress User Management

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 …

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October 2016

How does a CDN work?

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 …

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