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Why Choose WordPress in 2024
In 2020, we published a post titled '3 Simple Reasons to Use WordPress', highlighting scalability, flexibility, and ownership as the key factors that make WordPress an excellent choice for site owners. These reasons remain as valid as ever in 2024 and we would like to take those core reasons and expand a bit on the…
Top WordPress Managed Hosting Providers for Your WordPress Site
Have you ever noticed how some WordPress sites run smoother, load faster, and have minimal downtime? A large contributor to this is their choice of hosting - specifically, managed hosting for WordPress. This managed hosting is built to optimize every aspect of your site, from speed to security, to ensure peak performance, not just keep…
WordPress Events in 2024 That Should Be On Your Radar
The best way to stay on top of the latest happenings in the WordPress world is to be a part of the diverse and ever-growing community. This year, there are a ton of exciting WordPress events lined up, each with unique opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. Whether you're a developer, a designer, a content…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
When “Maintenance” is a misnomer
I've got a long history of many feelings about the word "maintenance". I've run the gambit from loving it to hating it and everything in between. My CoFounder even wrote a blog post at one point and time about how we had temporarily banned the word from our company vocabulary. As the original WordPress maintenance…
Granting Agencies Access to your Website and Site Supporting Infrastructure
One of the first things you do when onboarding with a new agency that will do some work on your website is grant them access to various things. Before granting them full access to everything, you should think through what they need to do and what level of access is needed in order for the…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
Who Owns Your Domain?
Over the past 20 years, I've seen my share of poor website decisions. One of those decisions stands high above the others. I am not talking about music that automatically starts playing or scrolling marquee text -- I am talking about domain ownership. I know exactly how it happens. A vendor needs to launch a new…
Looking Outward + Robert Band, Finance Expert
Perspective is everything. This phrase is typically used to refer to an inward journey. The way we see the world colors everything we do. So, ensuring we have a healthy sense of what we are looking at or how we are seeing is important. Equally important to looking inward, is looking outward. Looking outward involves…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
Google Chrome to put your website speed on display
Google Chrome plans to put your website speed on display, for better or for worse.
24/7 Website Support. Mandatory or Myth?
24/7 website support is a standard sales pitch these days. You can get nearly anything you want 24 hours a day. You can get a meal, a pair of socks, dog food, or a shed for your backyard. If you can't walk into a store and buy it, you can find online. Add to cart,…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
How We Approach Website Speed
Planning this article was an interesting experience. My goal was to publicize what Valet’s opinion and approach is to website speed. At the same time, I needed to express that opinion in a way that’s different from your typical blog post about website speed. I think the best way to do that is to…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
PunkPOS Helps WordPress Users (and Others) Achieve Greater Success by Automating Business Processes
PunkPOS is to business process automation what Valet is to website health. It's the first choice of people who want to spend less time doing back-of-shop drudgery and more time making their own customers happy. PunkPOS specializes in business process automation—BPA for short. BPA is worth considering if the running of your website involves lots…
Does Logging Into Your WordPress Dashboard from a Public Wi-Fi Pose a Website Security Risk? Unlikely, Says Wired
Website security ranks high up on the list of things that make for a healthy online property. Accordingly, Valet devotes much effort to helping you keep your site as secure as possible. Mostly, that involves looking for weaknesses that hackers could potentially use to carry out their evil plans. But it also involves reminding you…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
Australia’s New Cyber-Snooping Law May Create Website Security Issues Affecting Health of Your Online Property
Australia’s new cyber-snooping law may create website security issues for online properties everywhere—not just in Oz. Specifically, the website security issues analysts at Valet believe your WordPress site’s health could be affected. Here’s how. The new law requires internet providers serving Australia to remove privacy protections currently preventing police from monitoring encrypted online activity. Additionally,…
Things That Can Cause You to Have Website Performance Problems
Website performance problems bedevil you. You realized this after it became obvious to you that people visiting your site never really do what you hoped. Few ventured from page to page, meaning few discovered all that you offered. Few read your content and absorbed your ideas or embraced your suggestions. Few clicked the links…