How to downgrade a WordPress Plugin

Generally you wanted to be on the very latest version of a WordPress plugin. However, there are times you do need to be one or more versions behind. What are some of the reasons behind making such a decision? Recently a plugin was throwing errors for me after updating...

WordPress White Screen of Death

What is the WordPress White Screen of Death? It is when you go to your site and see just a blank, empty, white page rather than your site. While you may not have known the name of the problem, it is something you can experience with WordPress (as well as other content...

Making WordPress more secure

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Let me share steps you can take to make your WordPress site more secure against hackers. Please note a number of the steps I will share are listed on Hardening WordPress, Official WordPress Codex article. In May 2011, I...

WordPress Updates and FTP

Are you hosting with a WordPress hosting provider where you are asked for your FTP credentials when you go to update WordPress itself? WordPress Plugins? WordPress Themes? Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to enter the FTP information (and not save...

How to help customers move to WordPress

A large number of our customers come from the boom days of Microsoft FrontPage. For those of you who don’t know about Microsoft FrontPage, it was both a tool for web hosting customers as well as an a server-based application for web hosting providers to allow...

Can you find high value web hosting?

One of the joys I have as steward of Dynamic Net, Inc. is getting to converse with other small business owners. I’ve found you stay in touch by being in touch. The most recent topic of discussion in the Linked To Lancaster LinkedIn group was the need for every...