Many small businesses are being jolted into a new direction of doing business. Sometimes for the first time ever people are working from home. Forced to make critical changes just to keep afloat, and it seems like we can’ t keep anything under control. So many of us are…
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WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: March 2020, Part 2
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of March, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins or themes…
A Review of Ghost Kit & Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg: Extending WordPress with Blocks
I’ m changing it up a bit this week. Today, we’ re going to review two plugins in one post Ghost Kit and Ultimate Addons. Not because they don’ t each deserve their own post, but because I didn’ t want you to wait another week for another great Gutenberg post. We’ re…
New! Restore Backups from WP Dashboard with More Remote Destination Support in BackupBuddy 8.5.5.
We’ve been hard at work continuing to add support of our new restore feature to other remote destinations. Today we’re excited to bring that feature to four more remote destinations. Current BackupBuddy, Plugin Suite and Toolkit customers will find version 8.5.5 of the BackupBuddy plugin available as an…
WordPress Plugin Roundup – March 2020
Every month Nathan Ingram looks over the last 30 days on the WordPress Plugin Directory and makes a list of his favorite new additions. Here are his favorite plugins, his WooCommerce recommendation and his good/bad idea WordPress plugins. Nathan told us last month that he was concerned about…
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: March 2020, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first half of March, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins or themes…
A Review of GenerateBlocks: Extending WordPress with Blocks
Today, I want to review GenerateBlocks, a plugin that is still in Alpha. GenerateBlocks has the idea of creating powerful WordPress blocks, without all the bloat. What that means is that it’ s a small collection of lightweight WordPress blocks that can be used to accomplish nearly anything. What…
20 Ways to Get More Clients
“ How can I get more clients?” It’ s a question that plagues every small business and startup and while many “ experts” claim to have the silver bullet to grow your customer base, it takes time and dedication to steadily increase your client list. Now, before you stress too much, …
7 WordPress Security Best Practices
As hacks and security breaches become more of a concern for anyone running a WordPress website, it’ s important to know you can drastically improve your security by using a few WordPress security best practices. If you don’ t already have a WordPress security strategy in place, this post will…
New One-Click WordPress Security Check in iThemes Security
The latest version of iThemes Security Pro (6.4.2) & iThemes Security Free ( 7.6.1 ) includes a new “ one-click” WordPress Security Check for your WordPress site. The Security Check feature is designed to help save you time and ensure your site is using the recommended security settings. Features/Settings…
Combat WordPress Brute Force Attacks with the iThemes Brute Force Protection Network – Free in iThemes Security
A new way to combat WordPress Brute Force Attacks just arrived with the new iThemes Brute Force Protection Network. This new brute force protection setting is available in the latest version of iThemes Security — free to download on the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Understanding Brute Force Attacks…
WordPress 5.4 is Coming and, it’s Time to Ditch the Classic Editor
WordPress 5.4 is tentatively scheduled to be released on March 31, 2020, and you should be excited. The number of improvements that will be included in the forthcoming release may even persuade the Gutenberg holdouts among you to ditch the Classic Editor. Need help getting…
18 Ways to Grow Your Email List
While it may have been around for a while, email marketing remains one of the most effective marketing strategies for delivering an impressive return on investment. Although some skeptics have continued to proclaim that email marketing would eventually become extinct, there has been no evidence to indicate that…
A Review of KadenceWP Blocks: Extending WordPress Blocks
We continue our journey looking at block collection plugins today with KadenceWP. We’ ve previously covered KadenceWP in our 12 Days of Giving giveaways last December. If you’ ve ever spent any time in the block editor, you’ ll understand how limiting it can be when it comes to designing layouts….
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: February 2020, Part 2
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of February, so we want to keep you aware. In this post, we cover recent WordPress plugin, theme and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you are running one of the vulnerable plugins or themes…
BackupBuddy: How to Restore Your WordPress Database
It goes without saying that every single website needs a backup. And many freelancers and web designers are even using backups as an additional revenue stream for their businesses. iThemes revolutionized the industry when we created BackupBuddy and we have made restoring backups to a WordPress site even…
10 Ways to Save Time & Make Money With BackupBuddy
BackupBuddy is a pretty great tool. We created it because we needed it. We’d lost our site and never wanted to go through that again. Turns out we’re not the only ones. We made BackupBuddy because we knew it could save us time and make us money….
A Review of Atomic Blocks: Gutenberg WordPress Block Collection Plugin
As we continue our review of block collection plugins, it’s always good to go over what we’ve already reviewed. We’ve reviewed Stackable and CoBlocks. Today we’re going to look at the block collection plugin called Atomic Blocks. It was originally developed by developer Mike McAllister of Array…
A Guide to WordPress User Roles and Permissions
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging and web creation tool available. Third-party apps and documentation for the platform are enormous. With each new update, WordPress coders continue to keep core features up to date while exploring new CMS horizons. At the heart of WordPress are user…
What is iThemes Hosting?
Imagine if you no longer had to worry about plugin updates or backups? iThemes hosting offers all the benefits of managed WordPress hosting, without the cost of managed services! It is always our intent to offer customers everything needed to run, launch and manage WordPress sites and now…
