First off, let me just say it's strange I'm even writing this post because back in the day this wouldn't have been a question. The answer to "Which is better: Wix or WordPress?" would have been WordPress, hands down. As a Charlotte web designer, we usually build our websites using WordPress because of its depth [...]
You have a gorgeous new website. You’ve spent so much time designing it, building content for your blog, and ensuring everything is perfect. So your site is good forever now, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, we see this happen too often. People build their dream site and then forget about it because they think now that the [...]
If your site is compromised, having access to backups can make your life considerably easier. The fastest way to recover from a hacked website is to restore the latest version of the site that existed prior to the hack. You will still need to close the security hole the attacker used to compromise your site after [...]
In this post, we cover a 10-part WordPress cleanup checklist that you should be doing periodically with your WordPress site. I found a great article over at iThemes about WordPress cleanup and maintenance. In essence, you need to: Check your backups Cleanup your email lists Do a security audit Lock down unused areas of your [...]
On this blog we write a lot about different vulnerabilities that could lead to site compromise. In our Learning Center we go deep on a myriad of important topics related to WordPress security. Our handy checklist, for example, includes 42 items you really should be paying attention to. But surely not all 42 items are [...]
After recently upgrading to Wordpress 4.0, one of my client's blogs who was using Thesis 1.8.4 stopped seeing the actual comments. She saw the comment count, but was unable to see the actual comments themselves. She was able to see them in the backend, but was unable to see them in the front-end. After doing [...]
