MainWP Blog - Tips & Tricks

As a WordPress entrepreneur, you have probably seen or read about the use of blogging for your business. The professional name for blogging is content marketing. Do you stare blankly at the screen when you try to write a blog post? Are you struggling to develop a process for writing a blog post? The truth is, it takes hard work and some planning to write blog posts for your WordPress business. After all, you are a developer, not a writer. Continue reading the post...

See if this sounds familiar. You get a request from a possible new client, and he needs a WordPress proposal by the following day. He tells you that he needs a WordPress website for his business. He gives you some information about the industry he is in and says he needs something that really “pops,” or stands out, so that he can differentiate him from others in the same industry. “Great,” you think, and you get to work. You blow Continue reading the post...

When it comes to an online marketing strategy, business owners look for tools to help them execute their strategy. Often, the tools are expensive, especially an all-in-one application such as Hubspot. Hubspot is a great set of tools for those that have the budget, but what about smaller businesses and solopreneurs? There are many options available to those are our customers without breaking the bank, and those options are directly tied to what we know best, WordPress. Online Marketing Strategy Continue reading the post...

Frankly, when most small businesses set out to build a website, they do it backward. Let that marinate for a bit. What I mean by backward is that they add the content at the end of the process. I have spent countless hours waiting for clients to submit their content. You know what I mean, right? There should be a law that says clients have to submit content first, but I digress. Copy ends up being way more important than they Continue reading the post...

While there may be some debate about the priority of the home page, it is still one of the most important pages of a website. It is the place a user can alway go to to get him or herself out of the maze of your website. A home page is sort of like a compass. Therefore, it is still a very important part of your website and given proper attention to optimizing for user interaction. 1. Begin with the Continue reading the post...

So, you decided you wanted to get started offering a WordPress Maintenance Service for your freelance WordPress business. You have researched all it that is involved and you think it something you can add to your services fairly quickly and easy. Congratulations! Here are eight tasks to do to get you started. WordPress Maintenance Service 1. Decide on what you will offer Getting started, you may want to keep your maintenance packages to a minimum. You will want to offer Continue reading the post...

  When my mom grew up as a little girl in rural Northern Arkansas in the 1950’s, her father was a farmer. Farmers, as you know, reap what they sow during harvest. It takes a long time to get to that point. In the meantime, the family had to buy groceries and pay the light bill. How do they do that? My mom called it the “milk check.” It came every two weeks. The milk check was the check the Continue reading the post...

Good website design and management should not be based on feelings or personal preferences. Rather it should be based on data and facts that move you closer to your goals. That’s why I love A/B split testing. It’s all about figuring out the correct path for your design based on hard data. If you’re serious about measuring the ROI of a website, then A/B split testing will help you work towards the best design by allowing you to test different options Continue reading the post...

  Taking a break from the usual blog posts to bring you something that is unfortunately close to home: protecting against and remediating compromised WordPress sites. Sometimes I wake up to a new exploit and have to go manually through dozens of sites – but with MainWP if it’s a plugin fix, I can deploy it in a matter of 30 seconds. Click here to find out more: https://mainwp.com/stop-xml-rpc-bruteforce-attacks-by-using-mainwp/For many small business owners (and even for medium and large businesses) websites Continue reading the post...

Late last week the Sucuri security blog announced that have seen a large uptick in brute force attacks on WordPress sites using XML-RPC and today we’ll go over 3 very quick and easy ways to turn off XML – RPC on all your MainWP Child sites. The Sucuri Blog goes into great detail on how the attack works and I recommend you check that out if you want the full details. MainWP does not communicate with your Child sites through Continue reading the post...