Tips and Tricks
How to enable and force HTTPS with Plesk
The following steps will guide you through everything necessary to ensure your site works perfectly over HTTPS / SSL / TLS. 1. Install and activate an SSL certificate There’s two options for this: Note: if you’re hosted with us, we enable HTTPS by default, and you may have already had a Let’s Encrypt certificate installed…
Read MoreWordPress Plugin: Category Checklist Tree
The Category Checklist Tree plugin may sound pretty boring but in reality it’s an extremely simple and useful plugin! If you’ve ever found yourself perplexed by the behaviour of the Categories lists in WordPress, this is the plugin for you. How might I be annoyed by the WordPress categories list you ask? Well it all has…
Read MoreHow to configure any website or form for successful email delivery
Although you’d think websites or forms that send notification emails would come pre-configured to work successfully in all cases, you’d be surprised how often they’re poorly configured by default. There’s a number of very particular aspects to the configuration of forms that need to be set precisely in order to work successfully both with our hosting…
Read MoreSHOUTcast vs Icecast Radio Streams
When comparing the two prevalent online radio streaming solutions I’d like to first emphasize the difference between the server and the source (client). With all radio streaming configurations we’ve got a source that connects to the server. The source could be an application on the DJ’s computer or it might be another process running on…
Read MoreAdding an Events Calendar to WordPress
There’s no question that there are dozens of events calendar plugins for WordPress. I’d guess that we’ve probably installed at least five different calendaring plugins on websites we’ve built over the past few years. Normally once we find a plugin we like, we stick with it and use it on all of our sites. But…
Read MoreNeed an image in your sidebar? Grab the Image Widget plugin!
Not that keen on coding, but need to add an image to your WordPress sidebar? The image widget plugin was made for you. By default, the best you can do with a standard WordPress installation is add a text widget to your sidebar and throw in the code to insert the image. This means using…
Read MoreHow to solve problems with broken links on your website
Broken Link Checker is a great little plugin that keeps track of all the links on your site and ensures that the pages they link to are all up and running and responding as they should be. It’s one of those little essentials that we often forget about, at least until we login and it…
Read MoreAuto DJ Shoutcast
Over the last few years shoutcast hosting has evolved a lot. One of the major benefits radio station owners now have is the AutoDJ feature. It has become an increasingly popular service along side traditional streaming. It has typically added a bit of cost to shoutcast hosting packages, but we include 5 GB of Auto…
Read MoreWhy do I sometimes not have permission to delete files on my own account?
We are asked this question quite regularly and although we have a knowledgebase article outlining how to fix the problem within Plesk, I felt it would be beneficial for many of you to know why it occurs.
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