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While the United States does not have a federal privacy law (unless you are in healthcare, financial services, or are targeting children under the age of 13), more and more states are passing their own privacy laws to protect their residents. One such state is Virginia, which passed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) in 2021. While this law goes into effect on January 1st, 2023, companies that need to comply should begin their preparations now as the requirements Continue reading the post...

If you are part of the Atarim Facebook group, you will know Disha Pegu. She is the person who manages the company’s community and the social media channels. She keeps the conversation going, keeps it energetic, and she really is an advocate for website consultants and agencies. She describes herself as, “A social scientist, huge supporter of diversity inclusion (everywhere), a compassionate marketer.” Indeed, she has experience in Project Management and marketing. She brings a lot of skills to the Continue reading the post...

Improving your site server’s Time to First Byte (TTFB) is key to fast a performant site. A slow TTFB will cause site users to experience a blank screen whilst the site then loads. Expected server TTFB times would be between 200 and 500 milliseconds. Some of the reasons why the TTFB could be over 500 milliseconds can be down to a high load on the site server, server infrastructure issues, and high latencies between DNS servers. TTFB slower than 1 Continue reading the post...

Today, I am happy to announce MainWP 4.2, a relatively big release that includes a lot of privacy updates for us, you, and your clients. Your Privacy Guaranteed Being focused on privacy, we tweaked a few things at our end: For the Plugins: We worked with Donata Stroink-Skillrud of agency attorneys. Donata is not only an attorney focused on privacy, but she is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). Along with that, she is the Chair of the American Continue reading the post...

It is April folks. Where has this year gone? There are no jokes here, just another roundup of things happening in the WordPress Universe. Let’s get started, shall we? Rip Wheeler of Yellowstone The Pattern Creator is now open The WordPress.org Pattern Creator Now Open to the Public One thing I’m excited about is the new Pattern directory in the WordPress repository. For someone who is trying to make a switch to the Gutenberg editor, the Pattern Directory is great. Continue reading the post...

One of the most commonly known tool for website performance testing is GTmetrix but it allows only one location, Vancouver in Canada, to test from. To access more testing locations, you need to create an account so that you can select a testing location that is nearest to your targeted audience. The free plan includes seven locations but with the Pro plan, you have access to another fifteen test locations to select from. All of the covered performance test site Continue reading the post...

Googling Crocoblock Review shows mainly positive feedback from individual bloggers/users and other WordPress resources. Are they true considering the glutted market of WordPress templates and plugins? On the other hand, what is the share of copywriters and low prices in this success? Let us look at their products in detail. Crocoblock inherited the Elementor methods: the drag-and-drop technology, no-coding, and the What You See Is What You Get model. Now it is an everyday website building practice due to the Continue reading the post...

Welcome to my TED TODD Talk.   I have been around WordPress web care consultants for several years now and have seen a lot of the successes and failures that many have had. It can be hard with long hours trying to get client websites done, overwhelmed with a huge task list, feeling like the kitchen is on fire all the time, clients that ghost you, and never-ending isolation as we mostly work from home. Most web care consultants are Continue reading the post...

Being in the industry for nearly two decades, WordPress still does not allow SVG files to upload directly due to security reasons. However, there are several ways to upload SVG files to your WordPress websites. The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format is commonly used for site logos and other vector-based graphic files. SVG files can be rendered at any size, making them an excellent option for your site. A well-optimized SVG file will be smaller than using a PNG Continue reading the post...

In today’s toolbox, we chat about cleaning up notifications in the WordPress dashboard, not saying hello, and a new theme called Olympus. Saddle up. We’re going riding. Cleaning up the notifications in your WordPress dashboard Notifications. We just assume this is part of life in the age in which we live. Everywhere we go, there are notifications. Notifications via text messages, emails, on the sidewalk walking down the street, everywhere we look, there are notifications. It seems to happen more Continue reading the post...