8 Donations of Chanukah (+ a Sale!)
Over the past 15 years since Websavers began, we’ve done different things for the winter holidays. We’ve sent our clients holiday cards, put up Christmas and/or Boxing Day sales, New Years sales, offered digital holiday lights be added to your website, and a few other fun things like that. This year we decided to put…
Read MoreHow 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 Use Beaver Builder for WordPress: a Comprehensive Guide
For each page and post within WordPress you get the WordPress Block Editor: a basic page or post layout manager that’s perfect for blog posts, but a bit limited for full-scale web page building. It’s much like working within your favourite word processing application: you can write/insert and format your text, insert images and videos very…
Read MoreHow to Secure or Harden Your WordPress Website
This article was originally written in Feb 2014 and receives regular updates as tactics change. Tip: If your website is currently hacked, this isn’t the guide you want. Check out our guide to cleaning a hacked WordPress site. Then come back here to harden it after the website has been cleaned. How and why do…
Read MoreIntro to Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)
Once you have a website and your marketing efforts are sending new customers to your website, it’s important to analyze the flow of traffic from the moment the visitor lands on your site through to the final conversion: whether placing an order or submitting a contact form. Analyzing visitor behaviour and making changes based on…
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: What is hosted WordPress? WordPress is the software that powers the website; it’s what the owner of the site uses to make…
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 MoreWhy choose WordPress to build your website?
In our more than 15 years of web hosting, we’ve encountered just about every content management system out there, from Mambo to Joomla, WordPress to Drupal, ModX to Magento. We’ve worked with them all! During each project we determine the best tools for the job based on the needs and wants of the client and,…
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,…
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