People around the world celebrate the twentieth birthday of WordPress today. WordPress has grown to be the most popular Content Management System. Here are some fascinating statistics about WordPress (source) Unfortunately, some people believe old information about WordPress, thinking it’s buggy and lacks security features. Yes, there have been issues in the past, but by…
Many of my Facebook friends have taken the “Ten-Year Challenge” where they post a picture of themselves from ten years ago alongside a current picture. Well, I have a different kind of “Ten-Year Challenge” and it works to your organization’s advantage! I have been developing website solutions for Ten Years now. Admittedly, the look of…
All of the organizations that we work with are running the latest version of WordPress (5.0). Everything seems to be working properly. You may not see much difference since the Classic Editor is still set as your Default Editor. However, you may notice a slight speed increase. As I said last week, there are some…
This is a much-anticipated major update and it includes several enhancements, most notably a new visual editor called Gutenberg. The release date has been very fluid with the date pushed out a little more and a little more as developers worked to fix the reported software bugs. For instance, the update was supposed to be…
A snicker crept across the auditorium as a room full of website developers awaited a panelist’s answer when asked this question last weekend at WordCampDFW. Her response? “How much is a house in Dallas? That all depends on what size house you want and the neighborhood you want to live in!” Website developers are often…
I tried to attend a webinar a few minutes ago. Unfortunately, the webinar required Adobe Flash. My current computer has never had Flash installed on it. And I will not install it. Hence, I was unable to watch the webinar I was looking forward to. Flash is old. Flash is not secure. Flash will be…
Are you hesitating to build your organization’s website on WordPress because you don’t think it’s secure enough or it’s too lightweight? Think again! Here are some heavy-hitters that are using WordPress for their organization’s websites. Security? How about the US White House! http://bit.ly/2IqTCgn Give us a shout and let us design a custom WordPress…
You may have wondered why some website addresses start with “http” and some begin with “https”. The short answer is that websites that begin with https encrypt the information between the website visitor and the computer that’s hosting the website. Web browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) are beginning to flag the http websites with…
I’m sure you’ve heard the latest news citing Facebook’s privacy policy problems. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified before committees from both Houses of Congress. For two days, our elected representatives grilled the young CEO after it was revealed that Facebook data on 50 million users was provided to a political profiling company. Many Facebook…
Several sources reported yesterday that WordPress runs on a whopping 30% of the top 10 Million most popular websites on the entire Internet. Also, WordPress currently powers 60.2% of those websites that run a Contact Management System (CMS). One of the sources notes that my alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill has recently moved its website to…