by Kim Shivler | Jan 6, 2020 | WordPress
Have you ever needed to update a WordPress plugin, and receive a message that you are unable to because your PHP version is not high enough? This happened to me recently when I needed to update LifterLMS, but this isn’t a LifterLMS issue. You could run...
by Kim Shivler | Jun 8, 2017 | Updates and Maintenance
WordPress 4.8 has been released and is the latest version of WordPress. What does this mean for you, a WordPress site owner? First, it’s time to upgrade, and while upgrading is important you want to do it properly to make sure nothing on your site breaks....
by Kim Shivler | Jan 10, 2017 | WordPress
It is now important to create your websites as secure sites https not http in order to show as secure. Fortunately, Let’s Encrypt allows you to create free SSL Certificates and when using SiteGround as your web host, configuring them is easy and it...
by Kim Shivler | Jul 2, 2016 | Images in WordPress
If you have large images, you should resize images before uploading to WordPress. Although WordPress will display image size based on your settings, large images can slow down your website even though they may be displayed as small. For example, when working on a...
by Kim Shivler | May 28, 2016 | WordPress
Installing WordPress is easy at most web hosts. In fact, it takes a click of a button, answering a few questions, then pressing Install. It can be done in less than 5 minutes. This post is an excerpt from How to Build a Website in 8 Hours or Less. The next automated,...
by Kim Shivler | Apr 25, 2016 | WordPress
CleanTalk spam filter can help stop or reduce comment and contact form spam on your WordPress website. The basic WordPress options to hold comments for approval helps insure that spam doesn’t actually make it onto your web pages, but that still requires you...
