Before WordPress introduced the Gutenberg block editor, the word count used to appear in the top left hand corner of the text editor screen. However for some reason Automatic, the company that makes WordPress, decided to bury that very useful information. Fortunately it’s pretty easy to see the word count […]
In this 2 minute video, we show you how to properly remove a WordPress site from your hosting provider using cPanel. This is an easy step that can help you free up space on your hosting account and improve your other website’s performance. If you’re hosting your WordPress site on […]
URTech.ca does a lot of WordPress work including running our own sites and recently and advertiser mentioned that his links were set to not provide the referring website details. To be more specific, the HTML was: Note that for privacy reasons, the page and link we are using in our […]
Struggling to get your website noticed? Unlock the power of plugins with WordPress! With a vast range of options available, this article cuts through the noise and shines a spotlight on 10 must-have SEO tools that will take your online presence to new heights. Plugins are the unsung heroes of […]
XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol used by WordPress for various purposes, including mobile app integration, remote publishing, and pinging services. However, due to security concerns, it is recommended to disable XML-RPC on WordPress as a general statement. The question really is, how serious a problem is XML-RPC and […]
We needed to convert a website we had given up on last year, to a forum and so we worked through an evaluation fo several different products before settling on bbPress, the free forum for WordPress. The video discusses: bbPress, BuddyPress, phpBB and other Forum tools that can be used […]
If your WordPress site is not showing the thumbnails, like this image we might have the fix for you: In our case we were using the Hestia Pro WordPress theme and you are using Webcraftic Robin image Optimizer. After working with the fin people at Hestia support and playing around […]
We have been taking particularly close attention to Googles Page Speed Insights tool and focusing on image files size. Google is fond of promoting its own webp format by telling web developers and WordPress admins that they should “Serve Images in Next-Gen Formats”. There are two problems with this assertion. […]
.webp is a graphic format that is yet another attempt to replace .jpg as the king of graphics. Google invented .webp and it has all of the features you would want in a graphic format: .webp supports transparencies, like .PNG .webp supports annimations like .GIF .webp is tight – it […]
We recently needed to replace a WordPress theme and found that the theme we had chosen did not allow us to add a slider to the homepage. We needed to know how to add a Smart Slider to a WordPress home page when the theme doesn’t support it in the free […]
We explain and demonstrate how to manually migrate a WordPress website from one hosting company to a different one. It is a pretty easy process if you can understand at a high level you need to: backup the database on the original host backup the loose WordPress files on the […]
If the home page of your WordPress site is working but all other pages come back with 404 pages, you likely have a problem with your Permalinks. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Permalinks are the address that your visitors see and there configuration is stored in the root of […]
After a WordPress upgrade you may find errors relating to Jetpack. The typical solution is to use an FTP program like FileZilla and rename the Jetpack folder. However, you may then be unable to log into the wp-admin page. You might see errors like: Warning: fopen(/home/content/22/7568022/html/YOUR SITE/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/jetpack.php): failed to open […]
If you need to move pages or posts from one WordPress site to another, this is the video for you. We quickly explain how to use the built in EXPORT and IMPORT tool to move your pages and posts to other sites and then use BULK MOVE plug in to […]
If you are having problems with your WordPress site or you just want to ensure it is fully functional, there are several free and easy to use services you should quickly run through: sitecheck.sucuri.net – free scan of your site fo known malware, viruses, errors, blacklisting… godaddy.com/web-security/website-security-check – this is an […]
We recently worked through a particularly difficult to locate problem in which periodically some visitors would see the following 404 THE REQUESTED URL /commodore.guest-bike.php WAS NOT FOUND ON THIS SERVER The problem very intermittent although we were able to see the issue ourselves from time to time. It turned out […]