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Privacy, Cookies, & ADA Compliance — Oh My!
— Privacy Pt. 1

By Pieter Hartsook / April 1, 2021 / 0 Comments
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With more and more privacy laws on the horizon, we advise all of our clients to not only have a Privacy Policy in place but also have a strategy to keep it up to date with newly required disclosures. An up to date Privacy Policy can help you avoid significant privacy-related fines and lawsuits. These laws apply to the location of the visitor to your website, not where you or your website hosting is located. […]

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Trouble moving your site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Plan? - Here are some pointers 1

Trouble moving your site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting Plan? – Here are some pointers

By Pieter Hartsook / September 14, 2015 / 0 Comments
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Recently a reader raised a question in a comment to a previous post. He was confused about how to move an existing site to Godaddy Managed WordPress Hosting. Having done this several dozen times now I’ve developed some “best practices” and work-arounds I can share.

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Google filters out websites that are not mobile-friendly from search results - how to check your site 2

Google filters out websites that are not mobile-friendly from search results – how to check your site

By Pieter Hartsook / November 20, 2014 / 1 Comment
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Google has started rolling out filtering for Google searches from mobile devices. If you site doesn’t meet the criteria for mobile-friendly, your site won’t show up in the search results no matter how relevant your page is to the search. As more folks are visiting websites using smartphones and tablets it becomes increasingly important for you to make sure your website will provide a good viewing experience for them. Here are Google’s criteria for your […]

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Growing Pains for GoDaddy WordPress Managed Hosting - no easy way to backup your site! 3

Growing Pains for GoDaddy WordPress Managed Hosting – no easy way to backup your site!

By Pieter Hartsook / March 21, 2014 / 13 Comments
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Admittedly it’s a new product, but currently there is no elegant way to manually backup your WordPress site at GoDaddy WordPress Managed Hosting. GoDaddy does take a nightly snapshot of the files and database and keeps it around for 30 days. If you want to rollback to a previous version, you have to call customer support and get them to do it. But change is coming…

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It's OK to go ahead now... WARNING! Don't update BackWPup plugin to version 3.x yet It's OK to go ahead now... 4

It's OK to go ahead now… WARNING! Don't update BackWPup plugin to version 3.x yet It's OK to go ahead now…

By Pieter Hartsook / March 4, 2013 / 1 Comment
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BackWPup plugin developer, Daniel Huesken has decided to begin offering a “Pro” version beginning with version 3.0 of the plugin. I don’t have a problem with this and in some cases might recommend the Pro version to some of my clients. All the issues I had with the switch to version 3.0 have been fixed. The current version in June 2012 is 3.0.12 <http://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/>. The only remaining “problem” is that it is necessary to re-authenticate to your […]

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WordPress 3.5 has arrived, I've installed it, and nothing seems to be broken. 5

WordPress 3.5 has arrived, I've installed it, and nothing seems to be broken.

By Pieter Hartsook / December 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
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Another in a series of painless upgrades from WordPress. Double thumbs up for WordPress.org. One big advantage of this version of WordPress is that now I can create and edit posts on my iPad. In the previous version of WordPress the insert media interface was too large for the iPad mini with the insert-image button off the bottom of the iPad screen so you could never insert the image. The new media insert interface handles mobile devices […]

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