Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure

Updates The most important thing you can do to keep your WordPress site secure is to make sure it is up to date. There are many hackers that target older versions of WordPress and plugins that have known security vulnerabilities. Security updates are released frequently so you want to update both WordPress and your plugins…

3 Ways to Get More out of Your SEO Yoast Plugin

Note: this is an updated version of the blog post originally posted July 11, 2014. By now the WordPress SEO plugin, Yoast is probably old news to you. It helps demystify your website’s SEO with its traffic light inspired page grades and foregoes the need to write code to optimize your site’s pages. Simply enter…

Code Reviews and the Art of Website Maintenance

Every time someone visits your website they are presented with the HTML, CSS and JavaScript that make up the page. This is the client side code that is interpreted by a user’s browser to render the page. In previous posts I have talked about coding conventions and improving page speed. In this post I’ll talking more about the importance of reviewing and…

Upcoming Features in WordPress 4.3

WordPress releases new versions of it’s software roughly three times each year, and the newest release, WordPress 4.3, is right around the corner. In addition to bug fixes and minor improvements across the platform, each release focuses on a few specific features designed to make using WordPress easier and more fun! Here are the features…