WordPress is a powerful and versatile content management system (CMS) that can be used to create a wide variety of websites. However, even the most experienced WordPress users can sometimes run into problems. If you’re experiencing a problem with your WordPress site, there are a number of places you can go for help. In this article, we’ll take a look …
While no two websites are the same, there are a handful of plugins that we generally find ourselves running on almost every WordPress website. WordPress is great as is out of the box, but some plugins are so good we can’t live without them. Here are 5 plugins we’d recommend for every WordPress install. Security Security is always at the …
In our most recent blog article, I ran through how to avoid WordPress update anxiety by having a process for running updates on your WordPress site. In that article I mention the idea of having a staging site. First off what is a staging site. A staging site is a duplicate or separate environment that replicates your live website. It …
WordPress update anxiety is real. That feeling you get just after pushing ‘update now’ in the WordPress back end. I like most WordPress users have been burned in the past by sites crashing or disappearing after doing what should be routine updates. The risk is it leads people to not update WordPress at all and that makes the problem a …
It’s hard to believe, but in just two days, WordPress will be celebrating its 20th birthday! I first ventured into the world of WordPress back in 2006, when website building was a whole different ball game. Back then, most websites were what we called “static websites.” As a developer, I would painstakingly create each page using HTML and upload them …
It feels crazy to say it but WordPress is approaching its 20th birthday in 2 days time! I started working with WordPress in 2006 and back then building websites was much different. Back then most websites were what was called a “static website”. The developer (me) would build a website using HTML and then upload it to a server page …
When I first started out in the WordPress game, WordPress was just one of many content management systems. In fact it was seen as a blogging platform and not really as a website CMS. Other tools like Drupal and Joomla were seen as more advanced website systems. I know I certainly preferred Joomla for many years. But eventually WordPress started …
Believe it or not WordPress didn’t always enable sites to update the WordPress core automatically. In fact this feature was only introduced in version 5.5 which came out in August 2020. The idea of the feature was to allow WordPress to automatically apply updates to the core software, including major releases, security updates, and maintenance releases as opposed to forcing …
WordPress is a powerful content management system (CMS) used by millions of websites worldwide, more than any other CMS in the world. Keeping WordPress update can be stressful. Over the years I’ve seen my fair share of “upgrade anxiety” so it’s easy to fall into the trap of not updating WordPress when required. As a WordPress user and website owner, …
Hey there, I’m Dan Norris the founder of WP Master. You may be wondering who I am and how I got here, so here goes! In 2006, bored with a traditional career working in the Government, I embarked on a journey to start my own web design business. I’d never built a business website before so there was a lot …
