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Every website starts to slow down with age. Sometimes the server where the website lives needs updating, or it’s overwhelmed with thousands of other websites.  Sometimes the code behind the site is outdated, and newer, faster methods exist now! If it takes your website more than two seconds to load, Google may be reducing your search score, and you may be losing relevance. Not to mention, losing users who just can’t wait 15 seconds or longer for your website to load.  If this is happening to you, please reach out to us and discuss options for how your site could […]

You may or may not have heard (or may not care!) that the PHP programming language recently had an upgrade… again. Why should you care?? Well, the PHP language is used throughout the web, and the bulk of websites out there rely on the functions of that language to help your website do it’s job.  When someone upgrades the language, it can do some things more efficiently or safely, but if your website and related plugins  aren’t updated to match, you can have old code cause your site to fail. You may not even notice! Our recommendation is always to […]

We’re 7 months into feeling the effects of COVID on the business world, and along with the ultimate fatigue of one Zoom meeting after another, we’ve seen two other phenomena become quite prominent: 1) People are starting businesses after their employer terminated their jobs due to COVID cutbacks. 2) People who own businesses are having to pivot, and change how they do business! The COVID Pivot is surely the dance craze of the decade, and we’re here to help keep your feet moving in the right direction. Whether it means helping you make small changes to your website to better […]

Some more savvy website owners may have heard that WordPress will be pushing an update to their platform shortly (v5.5) that will allow the website owner to flip a switch, and have the website update it’s own platform and plugin versions – automatically. This would guarantee that the website is constantly up to date with the latest and most secure versions of it’s code. Sounds great, right?? Here’s the problem. There are many plugins that are not well written, and some of them call on programming functions that may be out of date, or less secure. This can instantly break […]