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Hello, WordPress 4.7!
It seems like we were just talking about WordPress 4.6, and now 4.7 has arrived. Time doesn't appear to stand still. The new version of WordPress, named "Vaughan" after Jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, brings a few significant improvements and a new theme. Twenty Seventeen...
Happy Birthday, Barrel Roll!
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since we launched Barrel Roll. What a year 2016 has been! We had an unprecedented presidential election, just about every artist anyone ever cared about passed away, and WordPress has gone from version 3.9.9 to almost 4.7....
Google Announces Mobile-First Approach to Search Indexing
In a blog post on the Google Webmaster blog on Friday, Google announced they are starting the process of switching the focus of their index from desktop to mobile content. That's a huge change from a system that has been primarily desktop focused to date and marks a...
Sucuri Hacked Websites Report Points to Lax Webmasters
The one constant you’ll find in this report is the issues pertaining to poorly trained website administrators (i.e., webmasters) and their affect on websites. That's one of the headlines from the 2016 Q2 Hacked Website Report released recently by Sucuri, a leading...
Looking For A ManageWP Alternative?
Today ManageWP announced that they are joining forces with GoDaddy. That's pretty big news in WordPress maintenance land, as ManageWP has been around for a long time and is one of the biggest names in the field.In their announcement ManageWP touts the benefits of...
How To Find The Right WordPress Host
The company that hosts your website matters. It should be a no-brainer, right? We thought so, too, but the more we look at our member uptime data the more we find the low cost monthly plans people are hosting their sites on aren't up to snuff. This isn't going to be...
