Performance & Security
WordPress Mixed Content Warnings: How to Fix Them After SSL
Moved WordPress to HTTPS and lost the padlock? Here is what mixed content is, how to find every insecure URL, and how…
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Performance & Security
Website Spam Protection: CAPTCHA and Honeypot Options
How to stop website form spam without frustrating real visitors: honeypot fields, time checks, reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha, Akismet, server-side validation and firewall…
Performance & Security
Web Fonts and Page Speed: Loading Fonts Without the Wait
Custom fonts can slow pages down and cause text to flash or jump. Here is how web fonts affect page speed and…
Performance & Security
Render-Blocking Resources: How to Fix Them
Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript delay the moment visitors see your page. Learn how to find them in PageSpeed Insights and fix them…
Performance & Security
Preparing Your Website for a Traffic Spike
A website traffic spike can come from a campaign, press hit or seasonal rush. Prepare caching, hosting headroom, monitoring and failure modes…
Performance & Security
WordPress File Permissions: Safe Settings for Your Server
WordPress file permissions control who can read, change and run the files on your server. Here is what the numbers mean, the…
Performance & Security
Website Backups: A Simple Strategy That Survives a Bad Day
A website backup strategy is more than a plugin checkbox. Copy files and databases on a schedule, store copies off the server,…
Performance & Security
SSL Certificates: Which Type Does Your Website Need?
SSL certificate types compared: DV, OV and EV, plus wildcards and multi-domain certs, so you know what your website actually needs for…
Performance & Security
Website Security Basics for Small Business Sites
A practical website security checklist for small business sites: updates, access control, HTTPS, backups, malware checks and monitoring without enterprise drama.
Performance & Security
Web Application Firewall: Do You Need One?
What a web application firewall (WAF) does, how it differs from a network firewall, when small business sites need one, and how…