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5 Tips For Crafting A Real Estate Website That Customers Can Trust In 2020
As I write this, the world is still trying to come to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the real estate world has taken some knocks in the process. Sales have slowed down due to fears about exposure. Financial issues stem from the businesses affected and jobs lost...
2 Plugins That Connect Amazon With WordPress
WordPress and Amazon are powerful platforms that make it easy to sell products online. However, they differ in approach, and each one has its pros and cons. If you learn how to integrate WordPress with Amazon, you can get the most out of both platforms and sell more...
8 Simple Steps To Build Audience Trust On Your Website
Trust in a website is essential for an online business to flourish. Whether your website can be trusted will be your audience’s first thought on whether they’re looking to purchase something or work with you. People are more well-versed about the internet than ever...
5 Reasons Why Your Web Copy Needs To Be Human To Be Heard
Whether you’re building websites or apps, and regardless of your specific field, you’re always going to need copy to flesh out your content. It’s a part of web design that is often overlooked, however, with businesses and individuals alike assuming that it doesn’t...
The Pros (And Con) Of Using WordPress For Ecommerce
Entranced by the attractive working flexibility and potential profitability of the online retail world, you’ve decided to become a merchant. Congrats! It’s a reasonable move if you have the will to take it seriously: ecommerce is the dominant form of retail at this...
WordPress For Business: 7 Of The Best Themes For Your Business Site
In our internet-dependent society, you can no longer afford to slack on your business's online presence. Picking a Wordpress theme for your business site is no easy task, though, especially when you don't know what to look for. Not only does your theme have to match...
4 Ways You Can Check WordPress for Plugin Vulnerabilities Today
Say a total stranger walks up to you and offers you a delicious looking lollipop. Do you grab it and stuff it in your mouth? Probably not. Most people know better than to accept stuff from strangers. But when it comes to the internet, our sense of self-preservation...
3 of the Best Free Tools to Scan WordPress for Malicious Code
Most website administrators never scan their WordPress for malicious code (AKA malware). That's like going through life never getting a checkup from a doctor, or dentist. It might be OK for a while, but sooner or later disaster will strike because you weren't paying...
Successful SEO Strategy Case Studies: 800% Traffic Growth in 6 Months!
After achieving great search engine results for these clients, we put together these 4 SEO strategy case studies in various niches. Let’s take a look at how we accomplished this growth in rankings. Read on to learn a few tips and tricks that are ready to be applied to...
WordPress Security – 8 Simple Steps to Secure Your Site
WordPress powers well over 75 million websites. That number makes it the single most popular content management system on the face of the planet. What has allowed WordPress to enjoy such incredible success? There are a lot of features that people could argue is this...
Top 3 PCI Compliant WordPress Web Hosting Providers
US consumers spent more than $500 billion on eCommerce sites last year. Amazon controls almost half the market. Other retailers must battle it out for customers’ dollars. Many factors encourage customers to buy from a site. Most emphasize trust and security. They also...
WordPress Changes Not Showing on Mobile? > Fix it with 4 Simple Steps
Is your WordPress site not showing your changes on your mobile phone or tablet? All you want to do is check your new site updates on your mobile device, but they are not showing up! The most common reason why the changes you made are not displaying on mobile is...
25 Most Stable & Reliable WordPress Themes of 2020(and 6 to Avoid!)
Would you build your house on quicksand? Of course not! So why would you build your website on an unstable WordPress theme? We’ve found that it can be hard to tell which themes are reliable and stable until well after your site is already built. That’s why we’ve curated the most RELIABLE WordPress themes for […]
WooCommerce and PCI Compliance – Everything You Need to Know
WooCommerce is an incredible eComerce platform for WordPress because it’s open-source - offering flexibility for it to fit any website’s needs. But how secure is it? Does it meet the standards for PCI compliance? We have everything you need to know on this topic. Is...
Why is WordPress So Complicated?
WordPress can look pretty intimidating at first glance. People often think WordPress is complicated simply because there are so many different customization options. From posts to pages and themes to menus, plus much more, WordPress can be pretty overwhelming if you...
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How To Fix The WordPress White Screen Of Death [An Illustrated Guide]
It's so aggravating! You are updating pages on your website and then see a blank white screen. What do you do? Don’t lose hope! Anyone that uses WordPress on a regular basis can tell you that they have experienced the White Screen of Death at least once. Why Do You...
How To Quickly Fix “Error Establishing Database Connection” in WordPress
So, your website is down, and is just showing this error message “Error Establishing a Database Connection” Don’t panic! In most cases, your website content isn’t gone or missing, it’s just a configuration issue that can usually be resolved quickly. Follow the steps...
Get Your Best Branding Potential with Our Web Services
Is one online business design company just like another? At Hog the Web, we don't think so. Our web design, SEO, maintenance and security services make us a clear choice for a wide range of clients. Our mobile-first design and attention to online best practices have...
PCI Compliance: How to Make WordPress PCI Compliant -A Helpful Guide
PCI compliance rules were established by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) to help improve data security and reduce fraud. Although these guidelines are not technically mandatory, card-accepting businesses may be subject to fines, litigation or termination of their...
How to Secure Your WordPress Website From Hackers
WordPress website security is a topic of huge importance. By not taking the security of your website seriously, you are leaving yourself vulnerable to hacks which can compromise the personal data of yourself and your website's user base. To learn how to secure your...
How to Protect WordPress From Brute Force Attacks
With thousands of attacks reported every minute, brute force attacks are a very real threat to your website and can disrupt your business making you lose valuable data. Knowing how they occur is key to protecting yourself. There are two ways brute force attacks are...
WordPress SEO: How to Grow Your Website Traffic
You’ve built the beautiful and functioning website you’ve always wanted. Great! Now it's time to focus your SEO efforts and begin building your brand exposure. This will attract visitors to your website who could, ideally, become customers. In this post we will...
What is an SSL Certificate, and Why Does My WordPress Website Need One?
Over the last couple of years, you might have noticed people starting to talk more about SSL Certificates and HTTPS. Here at Hog the Web, one of our top priorities is website security, so we’ve been keeping a close eye on this conversation, but for those...
The Secret Recipe to Make Any WordPress Website BOMB-PROOF
WordPress is not built “out-of-the-box” to run smoothly and securely. It takes a special blend of strategies to make a WordPress website reliable. Read on to find out what those strategies are. Here at Hog The Web, we have been building new WordPress websites, fixing...
The (Potentially) Fatal Flaw of WordPress
WordPress has become one of the MOST used website platforms ever, in use by over 25% of the worlds websites. (1) But there is a potentially fatal flaw that plagues most of these websites if left unchecked. You may be wondering how we know this. Here at Hog The Web, we...
Is Your WordPress Website Silently Sending Malicious Code to Your Customers?
Are you unintentionally helping cyber criminals distribute malicious code to your customers, friends and family through your website? Read on to find out, and how to prevent it. As scary as the thought may be, more and more WordPress websites are being found silently...
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