How to Migrate Your Site to a New Host
See the special steps you need to take before and after you migrate to a new host, especially if you’re currently using CloudFlare or have converted to HTTPS.
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UpdraftPlus Migrator Plugin Review
This little plugin is the BOMB for migrating WordPress sites. See why I’ve come to rely on it and why I recommend it for all designers and webmasters.
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Tips Tuesday – Secure Site Webinar, Google Crawls, Brute Force Protection
Tips this week include:
• The Secure Site Setup Webinar this Thursday
• New time for the live Tips Tuesday recap
• How to bring joy back into your business
• Site revamp projects
• Accelerated site creation classes
• How to turn off the link counter in Yoast SEO
• A super Google Crawl Bot case study
• Google testing new Search Console design
• New image optimization tester tool
• Why and how to rotate your SALT keys for brute force protection
• Why to disable XML-RPC to prevent brute force and DDoS attacks
• What’s up with A2 Hosting partnering with Sucuri
• New Gutenberg Boilerplate for designing your own blocks
• The new features in Gutenberg 0.5.0
• Dev discussion updates on PHP and WordPress
• Why you should update your PHP version now
• New Webmention and Annotation standards and how to get them on your site now
• Liquid Web acquires iThemes Exchange e-commerce plugin
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Rotate Your Site’s SALT Keys for Better Brute Force Protection
Your WordPress site has a set of master keys to protect your login. They are called SALT keys. And they need to be periodically rotated for better security from Brute Force attacks. Discover what your SALT keys do, where they are located, and how to rotate them.
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HTTPS, A2 and Sucuri, New Training Platform – BlogAid Today Tip
Latest news on
Yoast and HTTPS
Why not to go the free route with HTTPS
A2 Hosting offers Sucuri services
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Tips Tuesday – Secure Site Setup, WP Text Widget and Editor, SEO Crawler
Tips this week include:
• Launch of the Secure Site Setup Webinar
• How doing new things on your site can reveal problems
• Why same ole same ole site ways don’t cut it anymore
• How the Millennials are doing things differently – and succeeding
• How getting educated about your site saves you from getting ripped off
• Progress on the WP 4.8 Rich Text Widget
• When WP 4.8.1 might roll out
• Why some folks are pleading for Gutenberg to not be included in core
• When we might see Gutenberg available for all sites
• The new link counter in Yoast SEO 5.0 and how to make use of it
• Why you shouldn’t worry about duplicate content issues when repurposing
• A new SEO crawler I’m checking out
• Let’s Encrypt passing the 100 million mark with certificates and what’s coming
• Rich Snippets basics and adding them with Google Tag Manager
• Why nginx is a host’s best friend to speed up a site
• Which is the best host for you -
Secure Site Setup Webinar – Webmaster Training
Want to know what it takes to set up a site securely from scratch?
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Tips Tuesday – 301 Redirects, Powerful Headlines, Repurposing Content, Gutenberg
Tips this week include:
• The launch of the BlogAid Booming Bloggers Hub
• What’s coming on the BlogAid Live Show and when
• Behind the scenes look at what’s on my plate this week
• New monthly roundup on the WordPress blog
• A must-read post on what the Gutenberg editor means for the future of WP
• What’s new in Gutenberg and a great way for you to play with it online
• What the push for popular plugins to support Calypso means for you
• A new online site tester I’m trying
• Changes to my recommended HTTPS security headers
• New Dev Tools in Chrome 59 that webmasters will like
• A must-read post on 301 redirects and how Google treats non exact matches
• Updates to the Google Test My Site tool
• Why you should delete inactive plugins
• A step-by-step guide on writing powerful headlines
• An epic post for content repuposing