How to Safely Update Your WordPress Site

One of the most important things you can do for your WordPress site is keeping it up to date. These updates can be security fixes to prevent your site from being hacked, performance improvements, or new features that allow you to do more with your site and make adding and editing content easier. WordPress provides…

How to Use Google Analytics to Track the Impact of Your Website Redesign

Website redesigns are expensive and time intensive. Chances are you’ll need to prioritize elements in order to keep your redesign on time and under budget. In order to make these decisions, and evaluate redesign performance, you’ll need an understanding of which web metrics to track (and which to ignore). In this post, we’ll walk through…

How to Contribute to WordPress and Make the Internet Better

WordPress 4.0 – the latest version of the world’s most popular blogging and CMS platform dropped earlier this month. So what’s next? If you’re a user or developer who loves working with WordPress, then this is a great time to get involved in the community that builds it! Planning and preparations for the 4.1 release are…

WordCamp Maine 2014 Wrap-Up

Last week several Hall employees and I participated at WordCamp Maine, Maine’s first WordCamp. In case you are unfamiliar with WordCamps, they are an informal gathering of developers, marketers and business owners who use WordPress as their Content Management System. WordCamp Maine included over twenty one speakers from around the world, including Hall employees RC Lations…