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Posts about our company, WordPress, and other items of interest.
What Happens If You Don’t Maintain Your WordPress Site?
Have you ever thought, “Gee, it’s nice running this business and all, but I really want to torpedo the whole thing into the ground and see what happens.” Good news! Ignoring WordPress maintenance is a creative way to go out of business - way more interesting than...
Professional WordPress Maintenance Services: 9 Signs You Need ‘Em
How much revenue would you lose if your site went down for five minutes? An hour? How about an entire day? You can’t ignore it - unexpected website downtime is bad for business. Compared to the losses you may incur due to a malfunctioning website, the cost of...
New Feature – WordPress Visual Content Monitoring!
Here at Barrel Roll, we've always offered uptime monitoring as part of our membership plans. That tells us if your site goes down so we can reach out to the host and get your site back online as soon as possible. We take uptime seriously and we're proud that our...
WordPress Page Builder Performance Comparison
After two years of development, Gutenberg (and its delivery device, WordPress 5.0) are nearly upon us and people are not happy about it. 900+ one star reviews are a clear indication that it's not exactly beloved by the community, but those are primarily focused on its...
Why You Need WordPress Backups for Your Site (and How to Get Them)
I want to tell you the story of a small business owner—let’s call her Angela—who updated her website and didn’t have WordPress backups in place: One Saturday after making some edits to her site, she noticed a few things on her home page and sub-pages were no longer...
What WordPress Maintenance Experts Offer That Developers Don’t
After launching a website, the real work begins: publishing content, marketing, sales and, of course, regularly performing maintenance tasks to ensure your site is fast, secure, ranks high in search, and provides a great user experience. It’s a lot of work, right? If...
