When a new visitor lands on your blog it is customary to provide a picture of yourself or your brand. Most advice bloggers will agree that if your blog is personal in nature then a picture of yourself would be preferrable. The Jetpack plugin for WordPress lets you easily add a Gravatar widget to your Read More >
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How to Use the Facebook Sharing Debugger Tool
When a visitor shares a Page or Post from your website to Facebook, Facebook’s API scrapes or reads through your Page/Post content. If it is able to detect specific HTML Open Graph Markup then it will use these details for the post that will appear on Facebook, when shared. If the markup is not detected Read More >
How to Select a Home Screen (iOS) App Icon for Your Website
iOS device users have an option to Add to Home Screen from the Share menu. This option allows the user to save the URL to their Home Screen for quick access. If you have installed the Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator plugin, then you can customize the image that is used (as the App Icon) on their Read More >
How to Install Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator
Favicon by RealFaviconGenerator is a great tool you can use to customize your favicon (or site icon). This unique plugin extends the functionality of the favicon across various devices (including iOS, Android, and Windows) by generating compatible images and unique code for each browser/device/operating system. In this guide, you can learn how to install the Read More >
How to Manage Email Subscriptions with Jetpack
Getting in touch with your site visitors can be a difficult task. But it’s something you may need to do from time to time. An easy way of getting in touch with your visitors is to provide an email subscription. Since virtually everyone has an email address, it’s reasonable to assume that email is a Read More >
My Changes Don’t Show Up on My Website
One of the most common issues that happen on websites is making a change to your site and then not seeing it when you go to view it in an internet browser. When you make changes to your website you should know where you intend to make the change, where file that was modified has Read More >
How to Get Started with BoldGrid Using a Host File Modification
In This Tutorial: Prepare WordPress Hosts File Mod Install WordPress Install BoldGrid Initialize BoldGrid A hosts file modification is a convenient way to manipulate your computer to force your domain to resolve to a particular IP address. For instance, if you are hosting your website with a third party and plan on building a BoldGrid Read More >
How to Customize Homepage Settings in the Storefront Theme
As we continue our series on the Storefront theme, we will now show you how to Customize the Homepage Settings of your WooCommerce site. This allows you to pick what content will display on the front page of your site. First, we will show you how to display your latest post. Then, show you how Read More >
How to Customize your Layout in the Storefront Theme
As we continue our WordPress series on the Storefront theme, we will now show you how to change the layout of your site. There are a couple pre-built layout options you can choose from. This is an easy way to change how your site looks and can help you further personalize your WooCommerce store. Customize Read More >
How to Use the All in One SEO Pack File Editor
In this tutorial: Activate File Editor Using File Editor As we continue our series on the All in One SEO Pack, we will now show you how to use the File Editor feature. This allows you to directly edit the robots.txt and .htaccess file for your WordPress site. First, we will walk you through enabling Read More >
How to Customize your Typography in the Storefront Theme
As we continue our series on the Storefront theme, we will now show you how to customize your Typography. This can help brand your WooCommerce store by making the colors match your brand or better suit your website style. We will walk you through changing your heading, text and link/accent color. We will also show Read More >
How to Customize the Background of the Storefront Theme
As we continue our series on the Storefront theme, we will now show you how to customize the background of your Storefront theme in WordPress. This allows you to use a background image or specific color and can help you further brand your WooCommerce website. Customize Background Log into your WordPress Dashboard. In your navigation Read More >
Fixing BoldGrid Backup Email Notification Problems
The BoldGrid Backup plugin works with email notifications that work either with phpMail with no authentication or using an SMTP mail plugin using authentication. Due to heightened security practices, the phpMail option is often blocked. So, if you are using the BoldGrid Backup plugin, it is recommended that you use SMTP authentication to make sure Read More >
Setting your Site Identity in the Storefront Theme
After installing the Storefront theme in WordPress you can begin branding and customizing your WooCommerce store. In this tutorial, we will show you how to set your site identity in the Storefront theme. This includes updating your site title, tagline, logo, and icon. If you are running a WordPress site you may be interested in Read More >
How to Set up Google Analytics in All in One SEO Pack
In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up Google Analytics in WordPress using the All in One SEO Pack plugin. Google Analytics is a free tool for webmasters used to monitor and provide statistical data on the web traffic coming to your domain. This can be helpful when measuring the success of Read More >
NGINX Cache Management
In this article, we will explore the various NGINX cache configuration options, and tips on tweaking your site to get the best performance out of the WordPress Optimized Stack. This guide covers all of the most common parameters you can tune via the Cache Manager Plugin.
Premium Website Builder Reaches End-of-Life
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the death of the Premium Website Builder. This product has served many of our customers well over many years, but it is now obsolete and no longer receiving regular updates. The world of website building has moved on to newer, greater tools you can use to Read More >
Install and Configure WP-CLI
In this tutorial: Install WP-CLI Setup Bash Tab-to-Complete WP-CLI or WordPress Command Line Interface is a suite of commands that can make quick work out of updating plugins, setting up multisites, and much more WordPress management tasks, right from the Command Line Interface (CLI). NOTE: InMotion Hosting’s WordPress Hosting includes WP-CLI and is already installed. Read More >
Install a Theme Using WP-CLI
A great feature of WordPress Hosting at InMotion is the WP-CLI, (WordPress Command Line Interface) that allows you to easily manage your WordPress site(s) via the command line. Among the many available commands in WP-CLI is the theme command. You can use it to manage your WordPress themes via an SSH session. This command is Read More >
How to Create a Random Posts Shortcode
In the course of developing your WordPress site, you have likely considered the importance of site navigation. Once users have visited your site, the goal is to provide more opportunities for the user to find other valuable content beyond the page they have landed on. This is why many WordPress themes come with sidebars and Read More >
