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Tag: WordPress Updates

What a Lovely Surprise

Posted on May 6, 2020 | Updated May 6, 2020 by Tracey Rickard
Happy website client gift

Dear Tracey, Thank you so much for your invaluable help with the website. I truly appreciate it so much. Carol X

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Add Your Custom Website Icon to Replace the Default WordPress Logo

Posted on May 1, 2020 | Updated May 1, 2020 by Tracey Rickard
Favicon

Got a WordPress logo as your website icon and want to replace it? The website icon is that little icon we see in the tab of our browser window and it should be personalised to represent you or your business…

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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” is released

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Updated April 1, 2020 by Tracey Rickard
WordPress Designer

The latest version of WordPress is now available for update. If you have a maintenance contract with me, your website has already been updated. If not, it is really important for security to keep your website at the latest WordPress..

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I am loving the WordPress 4.8 update

Posted on June 9, 2017 | Updated March 31, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
WordPress Designer

  WordPress call it “An Update with You in Mind” and it certainly is. This is such a great update because it will now be so much easier for people to add text, photos and video to their widget areas,..

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WordPress Update Highlights All in One Place

Posted on August 17, 2016 | Updated March 31, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
The Brilliant WordPress

Here you will find all of the WordPress updates in one place. I have been building websites on the WordPress platform for 9 years now and in that time I have seen an awful lot of change. The thing that..

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Great page load speed relies on good hosting

Posted on June 15, 2016 | Updated March 30, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
speed

There are many things that we should all be doing today as WordPress developers to ensure that pages load quickly to please our visitors and of course good old Google SEO. Optimise images, basically make their file sizes as small..

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Keeping your WordPress Website Updated

Posted on March 3, 2016 | Updated April 20, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
update

When the developers release security updates or enhance functionality, the WordPress platform and plugins will need to be updated. Outdated and vulnerable software is a security risk and one of the top reasons for WordPress websites getting hacked.  It is..

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WordPress Hosting – getting set up

Posted on October 22, 2015 | Updated March 31, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
WordPress Hosting Requirements, nuts and bolts

If you are going to set up a WordPress CMS website, you will need to make sure that your hosting company can offer you the minimum required server specification for WordPress below. A MySQL database will need to be provisioned,..

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Keeping WordPress Safe from Intruders

Posted on June 4, 2015 | Updated March 5, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
Hardening WordPress

Taking care of your website Anyone with a WordPress website needs to take responsibility for it and take care of security. That means being super vigilant with passwords and ensuring that WordPress core and plugin updates are implemented as soon..

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WordPress who to call for backup

Posted on October 31, 2013 | Updated April 12, 2018 by Tracey Rickard
WordPress Designer

WordPress as a platorm is open source and therefore free to install, however if you are going to care for your website properly you are going to need to pay out some money every year for backups and security. It..

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