Nothing serves as a barrier between you and your potential customers or subscribers quite like a slow website. Seconds matter -milliseconds matter- when you’re loading web pages. Time waiting for a page to load adds up fast: you can lose as many as 10% of your readers as load times approach a mere 2 seconds, […]
7 WordPress Image Plugins to Help You Save Space
Last week we looked at housekeeping options for keeping your WordPress install well maintained and running smoothly. One of the sections in that article was devoted to dealing with old images that are hanging out taking up space but not actually being used for anything. You can check in there to see the solutions we […]
Speed Up WordPress Part 1: Taking Out the Trash!
Regular maintenance is part and parcel of almost anything that you want to continue running smoothly for you. Cars without regular maintenance collect gunk in the oil pan and and carbon deposits on spark plugs, and eventually performance drops. Orphaned files and folders bog down my pc’s performance unless I run cleanup software every now […]
How to Prevent Hotlinking in WordPress
The internet can resemble the wild west out there sometimes and, let’s be honest, that’s part of the reason we love it. The freedom that people have online gives us all kinds of neat things from videos of cats that are terrified of cucumbers to Amazon delivering my son’s birthday presents inside of 48 hours. […]
Pagely Managed WordPress Web Hosting
Peace of mind. That was the immediate response when I asked James Laws, my boss and CEO of WP Ninjas, why we use Pagely for web hosting. “They know servers as well as anybody. They know WordPress. They manage our sites so that we can focus on managing our business. Server hardware, network, updates to […]