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Security is pretty important. In fact, security is damn important. Hackings of your website can cost you valuable downtime, embarrassing visuals, get you in trouble with Google and cost you the chance to make money. Yet it happens every day. This is why it is necessary for someone running a business on their website to have security measure in place. Security measures come down to two basic things: Preventative, and the ability to restore. To restore, this means you have Continue reading the post...

Joshua Vandercar has been a MainWP customer for slightly over a year. He is the owner of Typewheel, a digital creative company in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He lives with his wife and four kids. Previously he taught mathematics and has served in various outdoor and cross-cultural ministry organizations. For the past six years, Vandercar has been digging into WordPress leading to the development of plugins and themes. He also contributed to WordPress core and spoke at WordCamp Minneapolis. Vandercar agreed to Continue reading the post...

What are some things you don’t know? Well, that is often hard to say, right? I mean, if we don’t know said fact, we don’t know that we don’t know. Still with me? There is a story going around on the interwebs that says Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. Funny thing, he came in third. Is this true? Not sure, but if it is, it just underscores the things we really don’t know. In 1943, Army Officer Continue reading the post...

Advanced Uptime Monitor 3.0 is out. This version contains a few interesting improvements and a few issues fixes. That is not all, Extension went through a cleaning and refactoring process in order to improve the user experience. New Features Add New Monitor form has been updated. Along with the design changes, Monitor Interval option has been added, so users can set monitor interval from the Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension. This option has been added to the Edit Monitor form also, Continue reading the post...