Setting up a website is only step 1 of the process to build your online presence. Even after your site is designed and launched, there will be times when you want to make changes, install updates, or try out some new branding.
Freelancers are a critical part of this system, but it can become frustrating to get in touch with your designer just because the marketing team wants the font to be blue instead of orange.
There’s an easy way for even a novice to make changes properly without affecting the live site until they’re confident: staging sites. Continue reading →
Running an e-commerce site is different from running any other kind of site. If you want to stay in business, it is vitally important that your site be available to users at all times, free from errors, and secure. To do that, you need to protect your site from hackers, from hardware failures and other webhost disasters, and from human error. There are some tools out there that make all of these much easier.
Anyone who has ever edited code on a WordPress site has been in this situation: you’re just chugging along, happily editing your files, and you save your file and hit refresh and……. blank screen. It’s the dreaded White Screen of Death. It happens to everyone. So what do you do to fix your white screen of death? Continue reading →
As a WordPress developer and meetup organizer, I spend a lot of time teaching people how to use WordPress. I can tell right away whether the person I’m teaching is going to find WordPress easy or hard to learn. How can I tell? It all depends on how willing they are to experiment, and how afraid they are of breaking things. The best way to learn to use WordPress – or any software for that matter – is to experiment and see what happens. Continue reading →
Marketeering Group is a digital marketing agency based in Seattle, Washington. They maintain nearly 200 WordPress sites for small and mid-sized businesses across a variety of industries, from restaurants and salons to plumbers and even commercial manufacturers. When a recent WordPress upgrade caused big problems on most of their clients’ sites, WP Stagecoach saved Marketeering Group hundreds of hours, and their clients’ sites experienced no down time.
WordPress 4.6 is about to be released! That means that soon you’ll have access to shiny new features and the latest security updates. That’s exciting!
So you’re excited about the new version of WordPress, and you know how important it is to keep your WordPress site up to date. But you’ve also heard – or experienced – horror stories about updates gone wrong. Continue reading →
You might think that if you’re developing locally, you don’t need to use WP Stagecoach to make a staging site. After all, it doesn’t affect anyone else if you break a site on your local dev environment. But actually, there are lots of ways that a staging site can be used in conjunction with a local environment to make your workflow better for you and your clients. Continue reading →
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