Category: WordPress Management

We explore the evolution of WordPress and the plugins we use. Learn about updates and new features, along with news about how we’re managing this platform for your business.

Re: Google Search Index blog featured image
WordPress Management
March 3, 2024

Re: New reason preventing your pages from being indexed

This update addresses emails everyone has received from Google Search Console regarding "New reason preventing your pages from being indexed." We recently marked the page used to allow subscribers to manage their email subscription to no-index. The reason is that this page only functions if users follow the link in an email from your website to the Manage Email Subscription page on your website. Going to the page in any other way will not...

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WordPress Management
February 20, 2023

We’re adding MailPoet!

We're adding MailPoet Premium to our website plugins and list of third-party software. This is also going to replace our use of the WP Forms SMTP plugin, which required us to make use of the default email addresses on Rackspace for your domain to send out emails from the website. Instead, emails from your website will be sent through the MailPoet sending service. Their sending service is also designed around email marketing, which brings...

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Devices
WordPress Management
October 23, 2022

Improving Mobile Load Times

In this blog post, we are talking about load times on mobile devices. One thing that may not be immediately obvious is that when it comes to visual appeal and functionality, you often have to choose between these two factors and strike the right balance. Of course, you want the site to look good, but the extra images and Javascript animations make the total size of the data that must be transmitted to the...

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Cloud
WordPress Management
July 10, 2022

Update to the Great Revamp of 2022

If you've been keeping up with our blogs, you know that we recently migrated to WP Engine for our hosting. While WP Engine did fix a lot of the problems we had with GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting, moving to WP Engine brought new problems. WP Engine is moving to a new network layer of security that comes with features that aren't really features for us. One feature, Cloudflare Polish, strips metadata from images to...

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BlogVault In - Termageddon Out
WordPress Management
April 20, 2022

BlogVault In, Termageddon Out

I looked over Termageddon and another competitor and for now I am going to continue creating basic Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages myself. While I am not an attorney, I care about our website visitors. I found that Termageddon provided very thin and obscure information and that other plugins are overwhelming in their legalese. There are legal criteria for these terms and policies that include notifying users about the information you are...

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Analytics
WordPress Management
February 4, 2022

New Website Analytics

The liability landscape for privacy and tracking has been unstable for a while now and will continue to be for some time. As a result, we have had a zero-collection policy for anything that could be identifiable or personal information and have strong notification and agreement protections in place for form submissions. Unfortunately, this left us ditching Google Analytics, and since then, we have been using a plugin with less capability, WP-Statistics. However, that...

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Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
WordPress Management
February 3, 2022

Privacy & The Law

Update: During the test drive of this product, we found this product was not the best approach and the product was never rolled out to managed websites. Read the update. I could have titled this "The Inconsistency of Online Privacy Law." Unfortunately, that is the problem, we need a clear legal outline that is a matter of steps to follow. However, currently, these laws are all over the place between nations and states, some...

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