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What is WordPress?

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the most common website content management system (CMS). It can be used to create business websites, eCommerce webshops, blogs, forums, social networks and much more. To give an idea of its popularity, it is used by the 30 percent of the top 10 million websites (April 2018’s data) including Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay, New York Times, CNN and Microsoft.
But what does it make it so popular as compared to other CMS?

First of all, it is completely free since it is an Open Source Project: many volunteers from all around the world are constantly maintaining and improving the WordPress software. Moreover, it runs online and you do not need to install anything on your device (yes, even iPhones and Androids phones) since WordPress is installed directly on the web hosting server. Then, it is highly flexible and largely extensible thanks to thousands of themes and plugins.

And how does it work?

At the beginning of the internet era, websites were written in programming languages like HTML, PHP and CSS in order to allow a web browser to read these codes and render them in a text, image or page layout display. This process can nowadays be skipped by people who are not confident with programming codes by using a web creator tool like WordPress. He will do that job for you. As a consequence, you will deal with an easy interface which will offer you thousands of templates to choose from. These are well-known as themes and plugins (WordPress offers more than 2600 themes and 31000 plugins available for free). They are both architectural templates allowing, for example, to change the webpage layout without altering the text content or to add a function like a navigation bar.

Do you want to create your own website? WordPress is the right answer to give your website any look you want without having to learn programming codes.

How to fix wordpress auto update fail

How to fix wordpress auto update fail

We have seen a large number of failed wordpress autoupdates in the last weeks, there seem to have been some issues with the latest 4.9.5 update. This fix is a general one for any failed auto update and it works in 99% of the cases. Most often this issue is resulting in a white screen or server 500 error.

You will need ftp access to sort this issue out.

  1. Step one is always to make sure you have a complete backup of your wordpress installation and database
  2. Take a look at your main wordpress installation folder and you will find two subfolders, wp-admin and wp-includes. This two folders contains most of wordpress code it self and nothing else. Themes, plugins etc are located in wp-content, brilliant!
  3. Download the same version of wordpress that you had installed, if you dont know have a look in your wp-admin/version.php file. All wordpress releases can be found here
  4. Once downloaded and unzipped you should now upload the complete folders wp-admin and wp-includes onto your servers wordpress folder.
  5. Once its done try to access the page, just to find out that its now working again. Login to wordpress backend and make an update to latest version in case your are not already running it.

Once you have the site up running again its important to make sure the issue was actually caused by a failed auto update, as we all know wordpress have had some security issues and for this reason you will need to check that your site is safe.

I recommend two security plugins Wordfence Security and Sucuri Security Install them and run a complete scan. This should find out if there is any issues within your wp-content folder ( since the others are now fresh )

Note: If the site still does not work after uploading the two folders, then try to upload the following files onto your main wordpress installation folder. But just make sure not to overwrite wp-config.php

WordPress https – How to Setup SSL for your wordpress site in 6 simple steps

WordPress https – How to Setup SSL for your wordpress site in 6 simple steps

What you need to do to make your wordpress site run SSL.

Its very simple to setup your wordpress to run https instead of http as long as your hosting accounts supports it!

  1. First you will need to either purchase an SSL certificate for your domain, you can also choose to use a free option named Letsencrypt  not all hosting providers supports it but it would be worth to have a look if you are on a small budget.
  2. Install the certificate on your hosting account, this is done in your controlpanel.
  3. Make proper testing of the certificate,ssllabs providing free tools to test your site. Do it!
  4. Once you have confirmed your certificate to be properly installed onto the server you can now go ahead and login to wordpress. There is several ways to make your wordpress site fully run under https instead of http but the easiest way is to use a plugin on your site. One plugin we have testet and can recommend is Really Simple SSL
  5. Now you can just visit your wordpress site and you should see all pages are now redirecting to https:// instead of http:// .
  6. If you are using google webmaster tools ( you should ) you also need to add the https version on the site and update your sitemap with urls containing https://
How to Convert joomla to wordpress

How to Convert joomla to wordpress

There is several extentions around how to convert your joomla website into wordpress but the first question you should ask your self is, Do i need to convert?. What is that your main reason you have decided to change from one publishing tool to anther?.

Years back joomla had some serious security issues which hade users flee from the platform into wordpress. The only thing that happen was that wordpress grew loads and hackers started focus on wordpress instead of joomla. Now, this might not be the reason you are considering make a changeover, there is pros and cons of both tools but you must know that changing over requires alot of then a click of a button, especially if your site is established and well indexed with google.

We have sucessfully converted sites from joomla onto wordpress. Conversion is done in several steps which includes both manual work and automated.
Our script allows us to convert even large sites ( tested on 10.000+ pages )

Contact us for a quote.