When you’re running a business, it’s not uncommon to want to do everything yourself, including maintaining your own website. But when work ramps up and you no longer have time to spend on your site, or you reach your technical limits, it’s time to think about hiring a...
Image optimization is one of the simplest and most effective ways you can speed up your site. But in today’s highly visual world where high-resolution images have become the norm, many sites fail to factor it in. This leads to slow page speeds, losing potential (and...
Since 2014, Google has been on a mission to make the web safer. Specifically, to make HTTPS everywhere. And that years-long mission is set to culminate in just a few weeks – July 2018 – when the search giant starts enforcing HTTPS for Chrome users. No biggie right?...
On March 9th we discovered and reported an issue to Yoast, the makers of the extremely popular Yoast SEO WordPress plugin. We found that their sitemap, which is automatically generated on every one of their 5+ million active installations, had been including links to...
WordPress has a nifty little feature that allows you to easily password protect content so it can accessible on the web but only people with the password can access it. It’s a simple and quick way to share content with a trusted audience. We recently discovered...
Two years ago today, when we formally launched Barrel Roll, I had hoped that it would be a more efficient way to provide ongoing WordPress maintenance to our existing client base, and perhaps pick up a few new members along the way. Almost immediately it became clear...
