Professional WordPress Upgrades and Testing for a Website That Runs Smoothly Table of Contents Cost of Owning a WordPress Website Why Get a Pro? Upgrade, Test, Fix, Test Again How Many WordPress Upgrades are There Per Year? WordPress Release History (2013 – Present) WordPress Cost of Maintenance Save Money on Professional WordPress Upgrades Cost of […]
We have some issues with our web5 server that we're working through at the moment. Things should be cleared up shortly. -Tony UPDATE (06/19) 08:15 am: Websites back up. UPDATE (06/19) 10:10 am: Some problems with email still - working on it. UPDATE (06/19) 11:50 am: We encountered an issue with the web5 server earlier […]
Update Your WordPress Plugins - Especially "All in One SEO Pack" There's a great SEO plugin for WordPress called "All in One SEO Pack" and we're using it on many WordPress websites we've created. As with all software, holes are discovered. A hole was found with this software and we wanted to notify everyone about […]
WordPress Automatic Updates Starting in WordPress 3.7, automatic updates were enabled for websites/hosts that have been configured to allow this. Please remember that this is only for minor updates - not major updates. Here is what WordPress says: Updating WordPress (codex.wordpress.org) For WordPress 3.7+, you don’t have to lift a finger to apply minor and […]
OpenSSL and Heartbleed If you've seen the news about the Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) and website security (the bug that somehow has its own logo), then it's something you should read about: The 'Heartbleed' security flaw that affects most of the Internet (cnn.com) We have checked with our host and our servers are NOT affected. The […]
WordPress Updates Itself Automatically Now Now, in version 3.7 and above, WordPress has added a feature where you'll automatically get updates to the core, WordPress software. Automatic Background Updates (codex.wordpress.org) For WordPress 3.7+, you don’t have to lift a finger to apply minor and security updates. Most sites are now able to automatically apply these […]
Network Solutions Outage Today There seems to be a problem today with Network Solutions. If you have a domain name, website or DNS hosted with them, you may find that your website is down. There is not a lot that can be done. If they think it's going to be an extended outage, you may […]
We're in the middle of a server migration. It'll be done in a few days. So far, it's going well. We're testing websites as we move them over and we haven't had any major issues. Our clients should not notice any downtime. Migration work happens during the night and we're able to move over IP […]
No IE 8 Support for New Website Design Microsoft has officially come out with Internet Explorer 10. That means we no longer are supporting IE 8 or any earlier versions. Webstix only supports the two latest versions of major web browsers. Times and software changes and we can't guarantee that every website we make works […]
UPDATE: We now have a final time slot scheduled: 12/05 01:00 CST A drive went out on web4 and it has been replaced. This is normal as hard drives do fail from time to time. The server might be a little slow but we haven't noticed anything yet. A RAID battery also needs to be […]
