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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…

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…

Introducing Automated Google Ads by Bluehost

Once you create and publish content to your website, many site owners find themselves wondering, what’s next? An essential part of maximizing your business is learning how to drive traffic and bring visitors to your site. Finding resources and tools to entice visitors can be time consuming and a struggle for site owners. Many people…

5 Free Live Chat Plugins for WordPress

A proper customer support channel is vital to maintaining and growing a successful website. For many years business owners would allow their customers to contact them via email when they encountered issues with their purchase. Times have changed, and now it’s more important than ever to have a chat service on your website to help…

WordCamp Atlanta: A Trip to The Tech City

The Bluehost team kicked off the month of May by meeting and greeting fellow camp attendees at WordCamp Atlanta. Hundreds of attendees came together to talk community, tech, and WordPress at the Loudermilk Center in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Attendees had the opportunity to meet sponsors, network, and join in beginner workshops on WordPress…

Introducing Blue Sky: WordPress Experts By Your Side

There are many dynamic ways to create the site you love on WordPress, but we understand that navigating that route can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. Once you create a WordPress account, figuring out the next step can be a bit of a head-scratcher. You’ve selected your domain and even have…

Creating a New Page or Post in the Editor

In WordPress, the first step to publishing starts with creating a new page or post by selecting the blocks you’ll need for the kind of content you plan to include. The editor comes with a set of default blocks for adding basic elements such as text, headers, and images. You’re well on your way to…

The More the Merrier: How to Add Users to Your WordPress Dashboard

Once you begin your WordPress journey, the power to customize every feature of your site is only a click away. Whether you’re an eCommerce store or a blog site, managing multiple users on your site has never been easier. WordPress gives you the power to control who has access to your site and what they…

WordPress Maintenance Mode: Everything You Need to Know

Making small changes to your WordPress website doesn’t always interfere with its usual operation, but if your site must undergo major changes, it may have to be taken out of service and become unavailable to visitors for a longer period of time. When this happens, putting your site in maintenance mode can let visitors know…

WordCamp US, State of the Word, and the Future of WordPress

This weekend over 20 members of the Bluehost team attended WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee. Over a thousand people attended this camp from all over the world to enjoy community and interactive sessions (and surely some hot chicken). Introducing WordPress Pro During camp, we introduced our new hosting product, WordPress Pro. This product revolutionizes the way…