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The Complete Guide to WordPress User Roles and Permissions
If you run a large website, a membership site, or simply need to give other people access so they can manage, edit, or contribute to your site, WordPress user roles and permissions let you control what users can and can’t do. WordPress provides six default user roles, each with its own set of permissions and…
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The 6 Types Of Cyber Attacks To Protect Against In 2019
It’s every system administrator’s worst nightmare. Hackers gain access to your system, stealing mission-critical information, locking sensitive files, or leaking proprietary information to the public. Frankly, it can be hard for companies to recover from such an attack. The data breach at Equifax in 2017 is turning out to be one of the most costly…
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Introducing PressThumb at Pagely
PressThumb has been an off the menu speciality item for the past year or so, and in that time we’ve put it to the test for the whole range of use cases and scale. From a convenient and free add-on to your existing VPS, to full scale dedicated infrastructure processing countless requests per minute, it’s…
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Toughen Up Your WordPress Site Security By Forcing Strong Passwords
It’s impossible to overstate security when it comes to managing your WordPress website. While a good web host will have certain measures in place to minimize the risk of any attacks on your site being successful, at the end of the day, much of the responsibility for keeping a website secure rests on the shoulders…
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The Complete Guide to Running a WordPress Forum
Forums and message boards are one of the oldest forms of online community, pre-dating social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. They’re also still the most popular means for asking and answering questions, not to mention a sure-fire way to grow an engaged community around your business. WordPress is the perfect platform for creating an…
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A Step-by-Step Quality Assurance Plan for Your WordPress Site
A brand new business might shell out $3K on a website and think it’s getting a bargain. However, when prospective customers start running away in droves because the site is: Slow Buggy Confusing Frustrating Unsafe Broken Well… It’ll quickly prove to be one of those “you get what you paid for”-kind of situations. I guess…
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The WordPress Codex: An Invaluable Resource for Better Coding
WordPress users and developers occasionally run into things that trip them up — this applies not only to novice users but to experienced WordPress developers as well. WordPress does not provide a dedicated support team to field questions or concerns, but their support forum is very helpful and manned by experienced and knowledgeable WordPress volunteers. You…
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9 Alumni Engagement Best Practices for Higher Education
With the recent announcement of The Pagely Scholarship, we’ve been deep in a higher ed mindset and got to thinking about ways to engage alumni, in addition to current and incoming students. We spend some of the best years of our young adult lives at college. Studying. Being independent for the first time. Pulling all-nighters…
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8 Questions with WordPress Writer & Developer Rachel Adnyana
We’re all about spreading the love within the WordPress community. With that, we’re reviving an old practice of ours where we interview folks doing impressive things within WordPress, and share it here on the Pagely blog. This is the first of our revamped interview series, where we spoke with Rachel Adnyana, editor for Design Bombs…
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Fresh updates to Pagely’s Atomic Beta
If you have been following along you’ll know we have been busy here at Pagely crafting a new control panel for our customers. In the most recent release: A basic first pass at PressFormance analytics graphs are in. These will show you vCPU usage on your nodes as well as V-Burst credits if you’re on…