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Let’s face it, changing providers isn’t always easy to do even when the company you’re transferring to and from are both helpful and friendly; that’s the whole reason we have a SiteMigrator service to do it for you. That change can be made much harder when the company you want to leave keeps trying to…
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This guide will show you how to access Plesk, our hosting control panel of choice for all of our shared servers. Plesk allows you to manage every detail of your hosting, including DNS records, mail accounts, FTP accounts, and more. Shared Hosting User If you have a shared or reseller hosting account with us, here’s…
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If, when attempting to access any given page on your website, you get a blank white screen, you’re in the right place! This indicates that there’s an error with the code that runs your site or (more likely) parts of your site. It could be due to any number of things, but the most common…
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This guide will show you how to use the Plesk File Manager. Here you can learn how to upload and download files, change permissions of your files, edit a file, or create an archive. If you host your own server, ensure that your web hosting control panel is Plesk version 11 or higher before proceeding.…
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In the 14+ years we’ve been in business, we’ve worked on a lot of websites and worked with a lot of designers and developers. Sometimes the website has been hacked and needs a cleanup and secure home. Other times the developer disappeared and the client needs help with maintenance. Some are trapped in a proprietary…
Read MoreWhen working with posts in WordPress, a common question is “how do I change the author?!” Single Posts At first glance it doesn’t seem like an option. This is because WordPress hides the post author changing box by default! When editing the post, look for the “Screen Options” tab at the top right corner (you’ll…
Read MoreI originally wrote this guide to work with the WP Approve User plugin, however that plugin appears to not be well maintained any longer, so this is a similar guide for the “New User Approve” plugin instead. When building an ecommerce website with wholesale functions, there were two key modifications that needed to be completed…
Read MoreWe’ve been working on some exciting news for the past couple of months, and we’re finally able to make the announcement. This all comes from the fact that we’re regularly asked what our preferred plugins for WordPress are, what we recommend for speed, security, optimization, and even page building. There’s a ton of options out…
Read MoreThis article can help you troubleshoot issues related to 504/502/gateway errors. When troubleshooting, it can be helpful to understand how the processing works between nginx and PHP, which is often used for high performance web application hosting, like WordPress. Common errors that occur that are connected to this configuration: Why is there a gateway? When…
Read MoreThis has happened to us a few times, namely every time we migrate a site using Thesis. The problem is that Thesis stores all its CSS (custom, skin, and editor CSS) in the database. It also stores the variables that drive that CSS in the DB. Something about how that data is transferred over when…
Read MoreA few months ago we were provided a design spec for a client site that required a button which, when clicked, would open a ‘fly-in’ menu appearing from the side — in this case the right side of the screen. This guide will show you how to add such a menu to the BeaverBuilder theme,…
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Since POP accounts don’t support server-side synchronization of messages, such as indicating whether you’ve read or deleted a message, using a POP email connection does not work very well when trying to access your email from multiple devices. To fix this, an IMAP connection is necessary. With IMAP, your mail clients/apps have a larger set of…
Read MoreSelect2 is a great jQuery library that allows for dynamic and live-searchable selection of elements in a long drop down menu. This guide will show you how to easily add support for Select2 to WP Forms. Note that this refers specifically to the WP Forms plugin, and not general forms for WordPress. Begin by adding…
Read MoreThis guide will show you how to configure DNS to point your site/domain to an external provider like Wix, Weebly, Shopify, or Squarespace. But before we proceed, you might want to consider the downsides of doing this. In this guide we’ll be using the generic name “External Host” to describe whichever of the website builders…
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Plesk comes with some extremely powerful reseller account controls. Unlike cPanel (and WHM), it’s not necessary to learn how to use two completely different panels, Plesk integrates everything beautifully into one easy to manage panel. That said there are a few things to know about the features it includes and the best practices when it…
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Creating a sub-menu, or multi-level menu, in WordPress is actually pretty easy! WordPress has a guide to creating multi-level menus perfectly well explained in their documentation, roughly half-way down the general guide to creating menus. So why do we have a post all about something WordPress has already covered? Well… if you’re creating a sub-menu…
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