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Posts about our company, WordPress, and other items of interest.
The Problem With WordPress Security Solutions
There are so many people out here selling security products for WordPress. They all have one thing in common - they will give you the impression that their solution is the right one for your website. Products like WordFence, iThemes Security, AIOS, Malcare, Sucuri,...
Do WordPress Hosting Companies Really Offer Maintenance?
Servers, backups, downtime, plugins, lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! Website owners looking for WordPress hosting and maintenance companies may find themselves sifting through a lot of technical jargon that makes both services difficult to distinguish. When you're...
Do You Need a WordPress Developer or a WordPress Maintenance Company?
They’re so cute when they’re little… Remember, in the early days of your business, when your website was still just a baby? When it had a few basic pages and was easy enough to maintain by yourself? If everything went as planned, those days are over now. That small...
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 -...