How to transfer a website from wordpress.com to self-hosted WordPress
This guide will show you how to transfer a website build on wordpress.com to a self hosted WordPress install. Transferring sites from wordpress.com isn’t 100% smooth, in that a bunch of features are considered part of wordpress.com only and don’t transfer, but usually it only takes a bit of tweaking after to fix that kind…
Read MoreHow to speed up WordPress
This guide will show you how to take just about any WordPress site to a maximum 1-2 seconds load time. If you’ve selected resources (theme, plugins, etc) that are built from the ground up for speed and your hosting provider is as well, then you can reach fractions of a second load times per page.…
Read MoreWordPress.org vs. WordPress.com – What’s the difference?
The wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org thing can be a bit confusing. Rather than providing a long and drawn out history of the company, let’s get straight to the facts and most common related questions: When it comes to hosting a website built on WordPress, WordPress is the software that powers the website; it’s what the owner…
Read MoreHow to use Plesk’s “Mail Importing” feature to migrate email
As of Plesk Onyx, the Extension called “Site Import” also includes the ability to migrate emails from external mail servers to an email account in Plesk. If, when looking at your list of websites & domains in Plesk, you do not see the button for “Mail Importing”, you will need to install the free Site…
Read MoreHow to use wp-cli with Plesk hosting
If you use WordPress to power your website and have a bit of technical knowledge (particularly of Linux shell), then taking advantage of the command line interface tool, wp-cli, might be of interest to you! WP-CLI is a command line method of working with WordPress. Rather than triggering actions by logging in to the WordPress…
Read MoreHow to transfer your blog posts from Squarespace to WordPress [Complete Guide]
Squarespace is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of proprietary website builders that trap you into their ecosystem by providing zero portability for your website. While they claim that you can move your website at any time (great marketing spin!), the reality is that you can only export the content, not the design and structure,…
Read MoreHow to prevent fraudulent transactions with WordPress
While most of these guidelines will help you with any eCommerce application, there will be specific mentions for WooCommerce related plugins as it has (arguably) become the standard for eCommerce on WordPress. Fraud and Website Security The first thing to understand about managing fraudulent transactions is that they don’t directly have anything to do with…
Read MoreSetting up your email in Microsoft Outlook for iOS (iPhone / iPad)
Microsoft has done a lot of work on their mobile apps, and Outlook for iOS is no exception. Personally, I’m not a fan of Microsoft Outlook for the Mac / PC, but their mobile app? It’s actually quite beautiful, and it’s arguably easier to configure for your Websavers email than iOS’ own Mail App! Let’s…
Read MoreElegant Themes Divi critical security update
Heads up for our Divi users (theme and builder plugin) as well as Extra, Bloom, and Monarch plugins. The following alert was sent out on Monday March 11th: Today some of our products were updated to patch a security issue. This issue was patched after being privately disclosed to our team by an independent security…
Read MoreHow to configure a subdomain for transactional SMTP email services
When using transactional email services like Postmark, SendGrid or MailGun (among others), they’ll often ask you to set up a subdomain that they can use as their dedicated sender subdomain. Unfortunately they also often confuse the heck out of their customers by calling it a subfolder or simply not being clear about what they want.…
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