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Hosting WordPress Sites with Flywheel – The Honest Review

What’s the mark of a great WordPress host? After 10+ hosts I’ve learned that it all comes down to this: How often you have to think about them? When you have to ask “Why is my website so slow?” or “Why is my website down?” or “Should I update to the latest version of WordPress?”, that’s time away from things that actually matter to...

How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site: 5 Steps To Building your Ferrari

We wrote earlier (here) about speeding up WordPress, but over time, our own site got really bloated and slow, so I went through and sped it up by several seconds using these tips, plugins, and services, mostly free solutions too.  Enjoy. Here are five concrete steps to do the same. Caching: Here’s on KEY tip you won’t find elsewhere. Don’t use W3 Total Cache....

Our New Look: Why Our Next Design Will Be Running on The Genesis Framework

Sometime this week we will unveil our brand new design, and it’s a big improvement. As a tech blogger, I’m naturally inclined to put a thought into any technological decision I make, and this design was no exception. Despite the thousands of free themes out there, I chose to shell out a good amount to run on the Genesis Framework, and here’s why. The...

Sorry. No Post Until Tonight. Fixing Our Tech Issues Took Hours

My apologies for not putting out a post in time for our newsletter. We were trying to fix a problem which ended up bringing the whole site down and it took two hours to fix. We’ll hopefully have something up tonight but we’re back. For those who want to know more: When testing configurations, we used a corrupt theme which then crashed the whole...

The New WordPress Update Is Here: Update ASAP 12/11/2012

This is a reminder to everyone with a WordPress site out there that you need to update…like now. WordPress 3.5 is out, and it’s really important to update yours as soon as possible. Why? Read on. I’ve seen a ridiculous amount of WordPress sites that were hacked because they simply didn’t have the latest version of WordPress, and there were holes which hackers got...