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How to Manage User Access on Your Website
WordPress websites provide endless opportunities to customize your website with a user role management system to manage multiple users on your site. Keeping your site secure and safe starts with managing access to your site and what that user has the ability to post. Knowing how to manage your user roles and permissions is very…
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How to Publish Your First Page or Post
WordPress offers users the ability to create and schedule a post or page before publishing content live to their website. Scheduling posts is very convenient to help your content post during peak traffic hours which can help increase your page views. Before you hit publish, there are a few key tactics you can add to…
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How to Build a Secure WordPress Site
Cybersecurity tops the list of online concerns for website owners and users alike. There are over 90,000 hacking per minute striking websites around the world. Scammers don’t just target large corporate websites, but they also target small businesses, independent entrepreneurs, and individuals running personal blogs. No platform is ever completely safe from malware, hacking, and…
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How to Run a Successful eCommerce Store With WooCommerce: A Bluehost Twitter Chat
On Monday, July 22nd, we conducted our second #BHChat co-hosted by our friends at WooCommerce. This month’s topic of conversation was eCommerce and participants had the opportunity to share tips and resources about running a successful online store. We had a wide range of over 50 participants including several popular brands like FundBox, QualPay, a…
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Happy 16th Birthday Bluehost!
We’re blowing out the candles and celebrating 16 years of web hosting with our fantastic employees and customers worldwide. We’re feeling sentimental, so let’s take a trip down memory lane in honor of our birthday. Did You Know? Wondering what we’ve been up to since our last birthday? Over the past year the Bluehost team…
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What Is PayPal for WooCommerce?
WooCommerce and PayPal were made for each other. WooCommerce is one of the world’s most popular eCommerce platforms, and PayPal is among the most widely used payment methods for online transactions in North America and around the globe. WooCommerce users can choose from among over 70 different payment gateways for their online stores, but PayPal’s…
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Bluehost + Amy’s Ice Creams = Bluehost Birthday Batter
Bluehost is teaming up with Amy’s Ice Creams to celebrate our 16th birthday with a special “Bluehost Birthday Batter,” ice cream flavor. This sweet treat is a vanilla cake explosion comprised of Mexican Vanilla, white cake, and a pop of blue sprinkles. For each scoop sold, Bluehost is donating $2 to Girls Who Code. Why…
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How to Find a Niche for your Blog
There’s one simple thing that has the potential to absolutely destroy your blog before it ever gets an opportunity to succeed. Unfortunately, it is something that blog writers and business owners often overlook completely. No, we’re not talking about the overall design or layout of your blog, or even the content that you are hoping…
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How to Add a Contact Form in WordPress
Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, comment sections, and other online tools give your website visitors a multitude of different ways to interact with your brand. But it’s also important to give visitors a way to get in touch with you directly, right on the website itself. Adding a contact form to your self-hosted WordPress website protects…
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What Is the Akismet Plugin?
Spam is the bane of every website. Spam comments that show up with generic praises for the quality of your posts along with questionable backlinks can slow your site down and interfere with legitimate comments from real readers. A number of WordPress plugins are made to handle spam comments, but the Akismet plugin tops the…