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Down-Selling For The Win
Let’s play a quick round of Jeopardy! Player: “I’ll take Sales Techniques for $1000” Host: “Whereby a seller induces the customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale” Player: “What is Up-Selling” ### Up-Selling is probably the most ballyhooed tactic for increasing revenue in…
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The Pagely Guide to Winterizing Your WooCommerce Store
The days are getting shorter, and customers are getting ready to whip out their credit cards and start spending like no other time of the year. If you manage an e-commerce store, chances are you can expect to see an uptick over the coming weeks; 2016 holiday sales are expected to exceed $1 trillion. We…
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9 Easy Steps for Coding a Custom WordPress Landing Page
Thanks to landing page tools like Unbounce and LeadPages, creating a custom WordPress landing page is easy, fast, and fun. Since landing page tools are so efficient, they’re great if you have a large marketing campaign with many landing pages, or if you’re looking to save some time However, there are also many great benefits…
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What is PressARMOR™?
The question “What is PressARMOR™?” comes up now and again here at Pagely, and this post aims to answer that question. PressARMOR™, in short, is a series of procedures we apply towards WordPress security on behalf of our customers. It is not, however, a magic bullet — vendors offering all-encompassing WordPress security solutions tend to…
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Rebuilding Pagely
This is the beginning of a short series of articles on various technologies and design/architecture patterns we’re using to rebuild the administrative infrastructure at Pagely. We’ll get to the meat (or soy-based substitute for the vegans out there) of the article momentarily. First, I want to introduce myself since this is my first “official” article.…
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Managed WordPress Hosting is 7 years old.
7 years ago this month, Pagely launched as a service that aimed to smooth and eliminate some of the technical hurdles of launching and hosting a WordPress powered site. It was a brand new category at the time, and now Managed WordPress Hosting is a ubiquitous channel within the broader Hosting industry. Estimates paint just…
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HTTPoxy and WordPress.
The vulnerability d’jour this week was named HTTPoxy, an applicable pun on pox and proxy. We have patched our servers for this already, and are here to take a few extra steps to help explain the vulnerability and hopefully spread a little knowledge. The first part of this post will explain how the HTTPoxy vulnerability…
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How To Create A Child Theme
One of WordPress’ great advantages over other, non-open source CMS’ is the ability to edit any line of code. If you use a theme that doesn’t do exactly what you want, you can dig into the code and customize it. The issue, though, is that when the author publishes a theme update that includes a…
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How to route Pagely site backups to your own S3 bucket
All of your WordPress sites on Pagely are automatically backed up nightly and made available for download via your Atomic dashboard interface. Did you know you can set it up so your backups also automatically accrue under your own Amazon S3 account? There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this,…
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The Wild West of Bots and Brute Forces
The key to success is starting with a solid foundation. When it comes to succeeding at security, passwords are part of the foundation. Failure to choose a good password will equate to failure in security eventually– if not almost immediately. In the WordPress sphere of security, brute force attempts at account passwords by attackers is…