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Our Team is Ready and Waiting
We met with a new website maintenance client last week. We wanted to talk to them about Pay Per Click (PPC) and some nice upgrades to their website. There were 6 of us in the meeting. Most of us were younger but the decision maker in the group was pretty preoccupied with getting one thing …
Why Do We Have a Website Maintenance Department?
The Story About How It All Started We have an excellent team working in our Website Maintenance Department. Working in that department is probably about the toughest job we have at our company. Our maintenance staff needs to be able to: Get a new project (often from a brand new client with no prior history …
WordPress Clean Up Service
I found a good resource today that explains how to secure WordPress and do things like clean up a compromise (hack) and so forth: The WordPress Security Learning Center (wordfence.com) We know our clients don’t have time to go through all of that – reading and understanding it. We get that but it’s a good …
[SOLVED] Updating WordPress Broke my Site
“I just upgraded WordPress and now my website doesn’t work. There’s just a blank page showing. How do I fix it?” ANSWER: Sometimes when doing a WordPress upgrade, things happen. Your website might break for a number of reasons: You’re not using the right PHP version. Plugins using certain PHP libraries clash and won’t work …
Is Your Website High Quality Enough for Google?
Google Documents Leaked! Google has an internal document that was just leaked and then Google actually released it. It explains how their human high quality experts should evaluate websites. In the document, Google explains what a high quality website is. It’s one that is well cared for. It doesn’t need to be updated all the …
Website Maintenance – Just Like Anything Else
Do you own a car? Do you own a house? If you do or don’t own either one, you still know that each of them requires maintenance. They need to be maintained if you want them to work properly. Cars need oil changes, tires and brakes. A house needs a good roof, windows and paint …
20,000+ Maintenance Tickets!
Webstix has been doing website maintenance longer than just about anyone (since 2001). We just crossed the 20,000th ticket in our system! We’d like to thank ALL our clients – past and present for helping to make that possible. We’ve turned around maintenance requests quickly and we respond instantly to let you know we’re on …
WordPress Plugin Updates
We noticed there have been a lot of WordPress plugin software updates lately. If you haven’t updated your plugins in a few weeks, then it’s time to do it now. Tips: Take a backup of all your files and your database. Make sure you get this done and make sure you test your website thoroughly …
All WordPress Website Owners MUST READ This!
Do you have a WordPress website for your company or organization? If so, there’s some important information you need to read right now. Don’t skip reading this! We’ve put together two killer posts that are important to read. It’ll only take a few minutes and it’s information you should know if your website runs WordPress: …
Delete Inactive WordPress Plugins!
If you’re running a WordPress website, make sure that you are managing your plugins well. The only plugins you should have active are the ones you need. Anything that’s not active should be deleted. If you do this, your website will run smoother. You also lessen your risk of being compromised simply because there are …