Category: Web Design

Thanks to a couple of new customers, I have begun to develop in the WordPress environment. I must admit, I am quite impressed! I had looked at WordPress, Drupal and Joomla in a previous search for the ultimate CMS for my employer and none of them seemed to fill the needs properly. In one case (small winery), the WordPress environment definitely works well. Thanks to Jetpack, it ties well to your favorite social networks and generates SEO-friendly web pages. Anyone who would like a recommendation for a Content Management System that is easy to set up, responsive and quite user friendly, that is definitely WordPress. While you are contemplating that recommendation, consider GoDaddy as the place to host it. I set this customer up with a year of hosting for…

As a WordPress site developer, how many times have you seen, and dreaded, the above message? I have been developing with WordPress for less than a year, and I have seen it three times so far. Two of these occurrences were after updating the Jetpack plugin, while there seems to be no specific plugin tied to the other issue. The scary part of the first instance is that I did not have backups or a plan to get it back up. Fortunately, though, I was also in the very beginning of the process. I just removed the site and started over. There is a truly simple approach which seems to work quite well, as long as you have access to the site directories. Using your file manager, look in the…