nashville geekHave you ever had your WordPress installation crash, get hacked, or you just needed to migrate it to a new server? BackupBuddy is a requirement for all of our WordPress projects. It is one of the first plugins installed, and probably the most useful. This plugin gives you fine grained control of what gets backed up, and where that backup goes. It will send your backups via email, ftp, to third party storage like Drop Box and Amazon S3, or store it locally. You can schedule automatic backups of your full site, or just the database. What a great sense of security knowing you can get your site back if something goes awry. BackupBuddy does so much more than just backing up your site. The restore/migrate functionality makes moving the site around a breeze. Need a test site to make some major changes? Backup the site, move it to it’s new location and get to work. It updates all of your file paths and database entries for you. Incredibly convenient! BackupBuddy has some other handy features like malware scan and server information. A great way to detect errors, and see if your server is compatible with the plugin, or other plugins for the matter. Nashville Geek includes backup services during development, and as part of our maintenance services. Questions? Contact us for more information.
Backup Buddy – A Must Have Plugin For Your WordPress Website
VERO – True Social
Our good friend TJ Barbe-Marbois and his team built Vero – True Social and we’ve been following their progress since the app was in beta. We’re proud to see their hard work and original vision coming to fruition. Last week, Vero was the #1 download in 18 countries for both iOS and Android app stores. Congratulations to Vero – True Social!
Understanding DNS during a WordPress Website Host Migration
Moving your WordPress website to a new host can seem intimidating. There’s one handy tool, the DNS record, that helps us migrate sites without interruption to all the other services connected to your site like subdomains, emails, domain verifications, and secure forms.
WordCamp US 2017 Roundup
The annual national conference for WordPress, WordCamp US 2017, was hosted in Nashville at the Music City Center. We’re happy to share what we learned from the 1500-strong gathering of WordPressers from around the world.
CSS v HTML
CSS v HTML – Still confused? Think of HTML as the Architecture & engine of your website. HTML describes the placement of content such as text or pictures and retrieves online information. CSS is the Interior Designer that communicates what colors, fonts, and designs the website’s content will have.
Gutenberg – A Completely New Paradigm for Working in WordPress
The primary goal of Gutenberg is to make your WordPress website modular—to change the editing experience from one static panel that you edit to an integrated set of pieces and groups of content that you can manipulate.
