Website Maintenance Is Key to a Successful Website Just like any software, websites require maintenance to keeping them working properly. Avoiding website maintenance is like not having regular oil changes on your vehicle or annual teeth cleanings. You wouldn’t drive your car very long if you didn’t look after its maintenance, would you? And you […]
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Moving Your WordPress Site to HTTPS
Now that a lot of hosts are offering Let’s Encrypt as part of their hosting package and Google is punishing non-https sites, there’s no better time to convert your site to HTTPS. What Is the HTTPS Protocol? HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for secure communication over a computer […]
10 Great Sites Running on GeneratePress
As you all must know by now, I have fallen in love with a WordPress theme/framework called GeneratePress. I’ve converted quite a few client and hobby sites in the past few weeks. To show you just how versatile this theme is, I’ve assembled what will hopefully be the first of many GeneratePress showcases. Enjoy! And […]
Now Offering Website Maintenance Subscriptions
Tired of doing the website grunt work yourself? Kick back and relax. We’ve got this! Pixelita Designs is now offering website maintenance subscriptions. There is a plan to suit your wallet, from bare bones maintenance to whole-hog content updates, SEO, and design tweaks. You can buy our services, — at three service levels — monthly, […]
Shortlist of WordPress-Friendly Hosting Companies
WordPress Hosting Requirements PHP version 7 or greater MySQL version 5.6 or greater Recommended Hosting Companies AdriaHost AdriaHost (https://www.adriahost.com) is based in Belgrade, Serbia, and is owned and operated by colleagues (and friends) of my business partner. They handled the migration of five of my clients when I stopped offering my own web hosting back […]
What You Need to Know About WordPress 4.7 (Vaughan)
The latest iteration of WordPress, 4.7, is a from-the-ground-up overhaul. There are a lot of cool new features here, some which have been on the workbench for over a decade. But because this update is so close to the bone, there is a chance that some of your plugins may fail, while plugin developers scramble […]
