PHP X-Ray is a performance monitoring tool available to developers and users who want to optimize their website performance but need help identifying and monitoring performance issues in their PHP application (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.). With PHP X-Ray, you can gather and visualize information about slow URLs, slow Plugins, slow Database queries, slow functions, and slow…
In this WordPress Security Guide we have put together a huge collection of secure activities you can build to protect your WordPress. Is WordPress Secure? Short answer: yes. But let’s dig into more details as there are things you can do to improve the security of your WordPress installation and prevent attacks and vulnerabilities from…
Web development isn’t a one-and-done thing. Most websites are living projects, constantly updated, fixed and improved; however, changing anything in a website carries a few risks, such as the potential to break pages, features or even the whole site. Staging is a way to avoid a disruption to the regular flow of your website and…
WP-CLI allows you to do multiple things like updating your WordPress, installing themes and plugins, without using a web browser. To take advantage of the tool you don’t need to install anything yourself. Simply login to your account via SSH, navigate to the folder of your WordPress installation and run the commands – it’s that…
Any business looking to get a website or E-commerce store online has one overlooked but extremely important decision to make: what type of web hosting to get. There are countless options, from the dime-a-dozen variety of shared hosting services to the extreme of running your own dedicated server yourself and all the hard work, wasted…
WordPress is a fully-featured and lean content management system from the moment you install it on a Web server, but one of its biggest strengths is its modularity. Thanks to the power of plugins, you can create basically any website you can imagine without even messing with code! With that said, if you are running…
An increasingly popular trend in computer science is the notion of SSD storage. Many PCs now use SSDs because of their clear advantages over their storage predecessors. For WordPress Hosting, the trend hasn’t picked up as much, and while some more forward-thinking WordPress Hosting services are already using SSD storage for their clients, you’ll still…
Nowadays, speed is imperative where it comes to the Web. Users expect websites to load fast and interact even quicker. As businesses grow increasingly dependent on e-commerce and digital marketing to survive and thrive, the need to attract and retain prospective customers is only growing stronger. While new solutions are popping up at an ever-increasing…
Benefits of using HTTPS HTTPS is a secure version of HTTP, which is a protocol for transferring data over the web. If you’re browsing a site with HTTPS enabled, your experience should remain the same, but all the data you send will be encrypted. In most cases, HTTPS goes hand-in-hand with SSL certificates, which verify a…
Three ways to speed up your ecommerce website Everyone knows how important Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas shopping period are to businesses, both online and offline. To help eCommerce webmasters make the most of this season, we’ve partnered with experts in the web industry and will be sharing informative and inspiring content over…