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If you copy and paste content from Microsoft Word into a WordPress website, there’s a chance that you may discover that all of your links are set to NoFollow. That’s just one of the many disastrous features of the lovely Gutenberg (WordPress 5.0+). Why are my WordPress

The biggest change coming with WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg is the “Editor”, however, changes to the WordPress core, PHP and JavaScript will indeed crash some websites with incompatible themes or plugins which have yet to be updated to be compatible with WordPress 5.0. WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg will be

There are lots of great ways to back up WordPress websites – as long as you have just one. Once you have multiple websites, the options become significantly more complicated and expensive. Current problems backing up WordPress websites in 2018 Multiple sites on multiple servers. This is

Not every WordPress update goes as expected. WordPress websites can have a variety of problems, especially when there are incompatible themes or plugins. Some errors include the site being stuck on scheduled maintenance screens, white screens of death, or a website looking completely different after the WordPress

If you see a “Hacked By MuhmadEmad” message on your WordPress blog or website, you are not alone. Below is the way to fix this message. How it happened, why it happened, and how to fix this error can be found on my recent article: How To

As of February 9, 2017, over 1 million pages have recently shown up in Google search results with messages such as “Hacked By MuhmadEmad” or “hacked by NG689Skw”. Website owners will be happy to learn that the websites are more or less defaced and the fix is

Google doesn’t normally play WordPress Police, but WordPress 4.7.2 was just released. As I reported yesterday, outdated versions of WordPress are being hit hard due to multiple security vulnerabilities in the WordPress core which are now being exploited. Google is sending email to websites already updated I

WordPress Version 4.7.2 was released January 26, 2017 and it fixes multiple newly discovered security vulnerabilities. People who have not upgraded may soon discover: Hacked error messages in Google search results Hacked Error message in Google Search Console Hacked content errors in search console Or they may

The Squarespace “Calling John Malkovich” SuperBowl LI Ad shows John Malkovich calling someone who owns JohnMalkovich.com. He is yelling into the phone and trying to get the domain from someone else who owns it. In real life, the JohnMalkovich.com is not at risk. However, this happens all

Most of the WordPress sites I operate have the comments turned off. But on a few, I encourage them, and if the websites are about TV or entertainment, people comment. Those websites are “protected” by Akismet or other anti-spam plugins, however, many of them have failed to

Since writing about Yahoo Small Business and Aabaco hosting problems in 2015, I have been contacted THOUSANDS of times by very angry Aabaco users. These people are more pissed off than Hillary Clinton supporters and have more problems than my first girlfriend. Some of these users use

Every day I receive requests for WordPress website design. I can never seem to find enough good WordPress designers. At the same time, there are many WordPress web designers out there looking for work. While I can have a functional site up very fast, I am not

I have never personally worked with Aabaco so I can’t personally have nothing negative to say about them. However, I can say that since first writing about Aabaco problems on this website tens of thousands of people have come here looking for solutions to their issues with

Ever since Yahoo Hosting became Aabaco hosting I have been bombarded with people asking me questions about Yahoo and Aabaco and Malware on Aabaco servers. There are hundreds of comments over on my main page Problems with Aabaco Small Business Hosting after Yahoo Move. With so many

Ever since Yahoo Hosting became Aabaco hosting I have been bombarded with people asking me questions about Yahoo and Aabaco. There are hundreds of comments over on my main page Problems with Aabaco Small Business Hosting after Yahoo Move. With so many different problems with Aabaco I

I get asked several times a day where to host WordPress websites. The answer changes ofte and varies from person to person. Here’s why. The history of web hosting Hosting used be a big deal. You had to house a server or co-locate it, that is, physically

Recently I was working with a domain which is configured for multiple languages. I was using my favorite theme which I use right here, U-Design. U-design is easily the most well documented, maintained and supported theme I have found to date and fully compatible with large plugins

On May 6, 2016, some Hostmantis servers went down. A client just informed me of the situation and forwarded me an email that he received below, wondering if this would affect his SEO. I know little about Hostmantis other than their homepage which reads reliable hosting for

When comparing IDX plugins for WordPress one is presented with a handful of options from dsIDXpres to Optima Express. I have only used one, but from my initial research, Optima Express met my needs the best, or was at least the most SEO friendly. Unfortunately, getting it