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This guide will show you how to change the Owner for your Websavers account or update your email address. If you’re looking to create a new user for your account that is not to become the new owner, see our guide here. Note: you must be the Owner of the account to make this change.…
Read MoreThis guide will show you how to make the changes on your staging or development environment live. We’ll be referring to a WordPress site in this guide, however the same steps can be followed for any web app in our 1-click utility. Tip: If you haven’t already created your staging or development site, you probably…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again; everyone and their dog, and the dog’s favourite e-commerce companies, are trying to get you to spend your hard-earned money on their products. The world of WordPress development is no different, so we’ve decided to do something a bit different this year and collect some of our favourite deals…
Read MoreDomain aliases are great tools to have in your arsenal. Whether it’s because you’ve changed your domain name, are preventing typo squatting, or just wanted to have a more memorable domain act as a redirect – there’s lots of legitimate reasons to have them. That said, there’s one really bad reason we come across all…
Read MoreThere’s a few reasons why you might want to create users or contacts within your Websavers account. Client Centre Contacts cannot login to manage the account and can be created for the following reasons: A) to save an alternative email address for the account owner (must use the same name as account owner), B) for accounting…
Read MoreThere’s a few reasons why you might want to add custom headers on your website, however the most common reason today is to add apache or nginx security headers. Many of these headers cannot be pre-applied globally as they would directly affect functionality of some sites that rely upon functionality which these headers would restrict,…
Read MoreIn case you didn’t know, any domain registered with or transferred to Websavers has the option to get free ID Protection — all you must do is check the box during your order. But what is ID protection and how does it compare to the competition? Whenever you register a domain, the details of that…
Read MoreThere’s lots of great documentation on the web showing how to create your WordPress Multisite network, but there’s also lots of different ways you might want to set up that network, and so this guide is designed to help you configure Plesk to work best with the options you want. This guide assumes that the…
Read MoreBy default WordPress does not support webp images. Yet according to Google’s analysis, webp images can help shrink the size of your images by up to 36% thus speeding up every image download. So you probably want to get on that, eh? The trouble is some browsers, like Apple’s Safari browser, do not support webp…
Read MoreIf you’ve got a website, you probably want to know how many visitors you have, how they’re getting there, and what they’re doing on your site. Enter Google Analytics. There’s non-Google options out there if you’re in the anti-Google camp, but that’s the subject of a future article. Google Analytics is an incredibly powerful tool…
Read MoreIf you’re reading this, you should have already set up Google Analytics in your WordPress site. If you haven’t yet, go do that now! I’ll wait here. … Ok, so now that you’ve got that step done, we need to talk about event tracking. Event tracking can be any sort of thing you want to…
Read MoreThe browser Web Inspector tool is included with all desktop browsers that I’ve used. Developers use the web inspector to debug Javascript, HTML, CSS, and even help identify some server errors. This makes the web inspector a powerful development tool to help narrow down website problems, particularly ones like this: Tip: if you’re having issues…
Read MoreWe’re going to walk you through the essential steps to getting your new VPS ready for common hosting services. Our top 4 tips for setting up a new VPS: IP Reputation This one is good to do generally, but is *mostly* only important if you’ll be hosting email. Due to limited IPv4 space, it’s inevitable…
Read MoreThis guide will walk you through everything necessary to managing your DNS records at the registrar level. Because we consider registrar level DNS management an advanced function, we’ll be expecting you to have a basic knowledge of how DNS works. This guide will only work for you if your domain is registered with us and…
Read MoreRegardless of all the WordPress caching and speed optimizations you’ve applied, it’s all for nothing when it comes to the cases where your site still needs to launch dynamic PHP processes to serve some types of page requests. These dynamic processes use far more CPU and memory than do the cached requests and sometimes that…
Read MoreManaging DNS sounds like a difficult task, but don’t worry! Once you’re able to get through the highly technical sounding terminology, it’s actually pretty straightforward. I often say that DNS is a bit like an onion: There’s many layers to it, and it’s very likely that you’ll cry if you try to get through them all.…
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