WP Valet loves our clients and because of all of you, we made it to a year in business! A lot has change since we first opened our doors and we have some exciting changes coming up in the next few weeks. Our Team Has Grown As many of you know, Mason and I we’re [...]
May Day as a celebration on May 1st has a long and varied history, with a surprising number of influences, each of which added color and texture to the fête we have today. Originally, a pagan festival in the Northern Europe worshiping the return of summer, after the advent of Christianity the holiday developed some religious [...]
Growing a business is a challenge in any environment. Growing a business around a core that involves WordPress has specific challenges inherent to its fundamentals. WordPress, of course, is that popular platform which began its life as a way for individuals to blog, but its value and ease of entry quickly allowed it to evolve [...]
The value of social media (especially Twitter) is debated a lot these days. Some businesses swear by it while others say it’s a waste of time. The truth is, Twitter can be a powerful free advertising platform and it can be a complete waste of your company’s time and resources. The difference is in how [...]
Today, I’m going to let you in on a little trick that cuts my time in half when doing migrations. The handy tool that I use is a Search and Replace script. This can help search and replace your WordPress database when migrating from one domain to another. If you do not have a clue [...]
I love caching. I really do! But man can it give me a headache when doing migrations. Maybe you have experienced this also perhaps? This is a short article but provides a quick tip on how to avoid this nightmare and make your migrations much easier. Issue Unexplainable issues. I know….sounds like a load of [...]
Who doesn’t want to increase profits by 50 percent? I will be the first to tell you, I’m not the next big entrepreneur out there, and if I knew half the things the big guys know, I’m sure I could increase profits by 300 percent. But sadly, I’m not, so 50 percent is what I’ll [...]
Last week, we discussed 5 Reasons to Build your Business Around WordPress. Hopefully, that article got you pumped to get out of your cubical and into your own business. The next question you may be asking yourself is, “How should my business be built around WordPress?” Good question, but the real question should be, “What [...]
Before I was eyeball deep in WordPress projects, I was a humble Web Developer working 40 hours a week at a job I hated. Maybe you can relate to this and is why you are here reading this article. Lets talk about getting you out of that office and into your new business that is [...]
When supporting WordPress websites, a necessary evil is the tedious tasks of on-going maintenance. Tasks that fall under on-going maintenance are backups, spam & trash comment removal, database optimization, and much more. Maintenance Checklist is a new plugin that provides is an easy-to-understand checklist for things that need to be completed on your WordPress site. [...]