The 80/20 of WordPress Security

icon-locker-goldSecuring WordPress is essential, especially when your business depends on your website. If your website is unreachable for days, or even weeks, how much will that cost you? If you don’t secure your site and have to hire a security specialist to repair and restore your site afterwards, it will cost you their fee, plus the loss of potential business in the meantime.

The best approach to security is to start with prevention. It’s much faster and cheaper than having to deal with a hacked website. While you can never secure your site completely, you can prevent the majority of attacks with a relatively small amount of effort. [Continue reading]

Consolidate Your Web Metrics with Informly

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How much time do you spend each day checking all of your website-related stats? How much distracting clutter do you see when you log into each service? The recently launched Informly aggregates the important stats that you want to see from your … [Continue reading]

The True Cost of WordPress Maintenance

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The WordPress software is free, and you can get basic web hosting and a domain name for $5-10/month. So your total cost of ownership should be less than $100 per year, right? Only if you're willing to endure slow load times, intermittent downtime, … [Continue reading]

WordPress 3.3 New Features

We recently upgraded all of our client websites to WordPress 3.3. Most of the WordPress core upgrades deal with security and bug fixes, and our clients do not need to be concerned with the details. However, the 3.3 release introduced some new … [Continue reading]

NextGEN Gallery Plugin Review

NextGEN Gallery is a very popular image gallery plugin for WordPress that makes it easier to manage and organize your images. We recommend it for use on any site where you want to show off multiple images. You can quickly and easily create elegant … [Continue reading]

Proper Website Maintenance

Regardless of what kind of website you have, you need to make sure you have proper backup and security procedures in place. And if you are using any kind of software, such as a content management system like WordPress, you also need to be attentive … [Continue reading]

Maximizing Your Dropbox Account

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Dropbox isn't just for backups. You can use it to share files, transfer files between computers, and host website files externally. Dropbox is an easy-to-use, cloud-based file backup and sharing system. You just need to sign up for a free online … [Continue reading]

Socialize Plugin Review

Social media buttons are becoming increasingly common on websites. There are many social media button plugins out there, but the Socialize plugin is by far our favorite. While the decision ultimately comes down to personal preference, we recommend … [Continue reading]

WordCamp Boston Presentation: Improving Your WordPress Productivity

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The slides from my WordCamp Boston presentation on July 24, 2011: Improving Your WordPress Productivity (PDF version) Improving Your WordPress Productivity (PPT version) On SlideShare On SpeakerRate … [Continue reading]

WordPress SEO Plugin Review

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The WordPress SEO plugin is, quite simply, the best SEO plugin available for WordPress. If you use this plugin, you will probably not need any other SEO plugins. The author, Yoast (a.k.a. Joost de Valk) is a highly respected WordPress and SEO expert, … [Continue reading]