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Posts about our company, WordPress, and other items of interest.
How To Fix Error 500 in WordPress (And Other Errors)
When things go wrong on a WordPress website, it can often be difficult to determine the cause. You may not even be able to login to your site at all - seeing the dreaded "white screen of death" or an "HTTP 500 error". These errors can be frustrating because a normal...
Advanced Image Optimization in WordPress
There are plenty of WordPress image optimization plugins out there that will shrink your images down by 5-10%, but what if you need more? Don't settle for marginal improvements. Here's how to cut your image sizes down dramatically with advanced WordPress image...
Why We Switched From UptimeRobot to Site24x7
Remember 2015? It seems like a lifetime ago, and yet, it's been less than five years since we launched Barrel Roll. As we researched the tools we would need to build our WordPress maintenance company, we already knew which one we would be using for uptime monitoring -...
What’s the Fastest WordPress Page Builder? Performance Comparison
Updated: April 27, 2020 WordPress page builder plugins continue to grow in popularity, even after the integration of Gutenberg into WordPress core. They make it easier to build beautiful and feature-rich WordPress content without learning how to code or bringing in...
Our First Time Online
Franklin, Virginia has never been at the forefront of technology. Decades of being a small, working-class town will do that. But change comes to those who wait and no town waits better than Franklin. That’s why, in the summer of 1996, the only way for a curious...
Are You Using Gravity Forms & Caching? Your Data May Be At Risk
We’re big fans of the popular WordPress plugin Gravity Forms. It’s well maintained and has a plethora of great add-ons to extend its functionality. We use it on dozens of sites to provide reliable and feature-rich form functionality. One thing Gravity Forms doesn’t do...
