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When building websites for clients, you usually have to juggle multiple priorities, from staying within the budget to presenting outstanding designs that your clients will love, to building out all of the features and functionalities that have been requested. One facet of website design that many designers and clients overlook is the meeting of privacy-related requirements. In this article, we will discuss why you should keep privacy in mind when designing websites, the concept of privacy by design, examples of Continue reading the post...

The opening story is completely fictional. Do not take this as an accurate account. It is for fun. 🙂 A few months ago, MainWP’s resident support tech, Keith Crain, was monitoring the support tickets when he found a request. The request came from someone who had an email that consisted of Dark Knight and Gotham. Crain thought to himself, “Could it be?” Turns out that the dark caped crusader uses MainWP to manage several sites for his colleagues, a group Continue reading the post...

If you are using the Broken Link Checker plugin on your site, it may cause resource and CPU issues on the hosting server. The blc_installation_log option could get as large as 1MB with 50kb of autoloading data if you have many posts on the site. The options values that the Broken Link Checker plugin uses are; wsblc_options blc_activation_enabled blc_installation_log The Broken Link Checker plugin uses the following database tables to store the data; wp_blc_filters wp_blc_instances wp_blc_links wp_blc_synch The database tables Continue reading the post...

A high-quality website can do wonders for online businesses of all shapes, sizes, and niches. After all, your website is the main entrance through which users get acquainted with the products and services you provide. Moreover, businesses with top-notch websites generate more significant revenue and are likelier to establish good relationships with their customers. Remember that the development and maintenance of a site is a time-consuming and all-encompassing endeavor that requires high levels of technical expertise. There aren’t many people Continue reading the post...

Today, we are going to ‌take a closer look at a checklist for onboarding WordPress website care clients. At the end of the article, you will find a link to download a PDF version of the checklist. If you don’t already have an onboarding checklist for your website care clients, this article is for you. 1. Add the client to your customer portal and/or CRM Add your client to your client portal and/or client relationship management system. This task should Continue reading the post...

If you are using the SEOPress plugin and want to migrate to a different SEO plugin, you may need to remove the database tables it was using. Before deleting the database tables, make sure that you run the migration from SEOPress to the SEO plugin that you want to replace it with. Here’s the database table that you will need to delete; wp_seopress_significant_keywords Additionally, there will be SEOPress database entries in both the postmeta and options database tables; the entries Continue reading the post...

In this month’s toolbox, we talk about tools to help you in several ways, including podcasting, CRM and funnels, database cleaning, and powering a website in the modern age. As a web care business, we acquire new customers and websites regularly. These tools may be helpful as you onboard your new clients into your web care business. Ready? Let’s roll. WP Sweep WP-Sweep Have you recently acquired a new website for your web care business? You likely will do a Continue reading the post...

The Code Snippets plugin is a commonly used plugin for storing code snippets that are not tied to the child themes functions.php file. Code Snippets Plugin for WordPress The Code Snippets plugin will store created code snippets into the below custom database table; wp_snippets Existing code snippets in the plugin can be downloaded as PHP files which you can turn into site-specific plugins or you could add them into the child themes functions.php file. To remove all of the code Continue reading the post...

Talisha Lewallen is the CEO and Co-founder of WP Connects an organization that seeks to connect United States military personnel to careers in WordPress. Talisha is also an award-winning Cherokee Nation Basket Weaver, a mom, wife, and farmer. She has several family members who served or are already serving the US Military and noticed they struggled to to enter civilian life including re-entering the workforce. Through a connection with Post Status Publisher and Owner, Cory Miller, she started WP Connects. Continue reading the post...

The two most common resource types that will cause assets for being render-blocking would be CSS and JavaScript which are being loaded on the front-end of your site. Front-end CSS and JS files would be from active plugins which are loading assets on the front-end as well as the active theme would be loading both CSS files and JavaScript files. Two of the easiest plugins to use that work together to be able to eliminate render-blocking resources on your site Continue reading the post...