Since the GDPR came into effect in 2018, website owners have been scrambling to get their site up to par and avoid hefty fines. While the race to GDPR-proof the Internet has calmed somewhat, it’s important for new sites and existing ones that skipped out to start taking steps to protect user data. Three years later, GDPR fines are continuing to be issued, and small businesses are certainly not immune. While you’re likely to receive a warning before being fined, there’s no reason to take chances. If you haven’t taken steps to protect your site yet, you need to do […]
Press This Podcast: Quickly Collecting Client Content & Site Info with James Rose
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]
5 Best Managed WordPress Hosts Compared
Using a managed WordPress host is an effective way to run your website with minimal hassle. However, it can be challenging to know which company to trust with your site. If you’ve never used a managed hosting service before, you may even feel overwhelmed by the number of options available. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to distinguish between different managed WordPress hosts. You can evaluate key factors such as technical support, scalability, site speed, and price, to determine the provider that best suits your business. In this guide, we’ll look at what managed WordPress hosts are and why you should consider […]
Torque’s Social Hour: Jake Goldman from 10up
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life. This week’s special guests is Jake Goldman from 10up. We asked Jake about recent 10up projects, how 10up decides which plugins to develop, and why 10up gives so much back to the WordPress community. Jake was an open book for this interview and I think we covered a ton of interesting topics. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.
How to Improve WordPress SEO Via Your Categories and Tags
Can you use WordPress categories and tags to improve your website’s SEO? That is the question we will explore in this post. Why would that be relevant in the first place? Because while WordPress taxonomies are a way to bring order to your content and make it more accessible, using them also automatically creates archive pages that will show up in search engines. In order to help you make the most of them, in the following we will talk about the differences between categories and tags, their effect on SEO, and best practices on using them. Let’s get to it. […]

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