• How To Setup SMTP In WordPress

  By default, WordPress utilizes the PHP Mail function for email delivery. Nonetheless, opting for SMTP offers superior email handling capabilities and enables you to leverage third-party mailing services for sending messages more effectively. To get started, install the WP Mail SMTP plugin by navigating to Plugins Add New and search for it in the search box then install and activate. PRO TIP! Add a subdomain to your cPanel (https://help.namehero.com/en/articles/7005199-how-to-create-Popular

• How To Install WordPress

  WordPress is the world's most popular content management system (CMS) and powers a good portion of the entire Internet. NameHero is known for our high-speed, reliable, secure, and scalable WordPress environment so we make the install process very simple. Go to cPanel -WordPress Manager (https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/1096754992/0f9b958f16259d8e0a68cf28/Screenshot+20Popular

• How To Add Google Fonts To WordPress

  Sometimes you visit a site and immediately see something you like. A sidebar, a theme, or a font and think to yourself "How do I get that on my site?". In this tutorial, I show you how to add Google fonts to WordPress with or without a plugin. Let's get started! Step 1: Find the Google Font All Google fonts are searchable at this URL: On the top right-hand corner of the page, you will see a search bar as shown here: (https://namehero.intercom-attachmSome readers

• How To Change The Font Color

  All themes need to be customized in order to achieve the look and feel you want. Despite the thousands of free and paid themes for WordPress, you'll never find one that fits you out of the box. One of the most common customizations is to change the background, the font color etc. Unfortunately, not all themes give users the option to change the font color in WordPress. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to do exactly that. Step 1: Check and See if your Theme Supports Font Color Changes IfSome readers

• How To Disable WP-Cron.php

  One of the biggest support requests we see with WordPress has to deal with the wp-cron process. WP-Cron manages all the scheduled events in your WordPress website. It’s a very common cause for high CPU loads and memory consumption especially for websites with very large databases and/or traffic. By default WordPress is setup to call the wp-cron.php file each time someone hits your website. For most websites this is fine but whSome readers

• Why WordPress .htaccess Is Important And How To Create It

  One of the most common problems we get in our support desk is with errors in the WordPress .htaccess file. If you're just installing WordPress for the first time, there isn't an .htaccess file. It's not until you customize your permalinks and save that it automatically generates in the directory you have WordPress installed. When WordPress cannot gain permissions to automatically generate the file (which can be for a number of reasons) you may find yourself needing to creating your oSome readers

• How To Setup A WordPress Staging Environment

  I used to joke with my former business partner about making live site edits. When you have a website that your customers depend on logging in/ordering the last thing you want to do is make a live site edit. Based on nearly two decades working online, I always like to plan for the unforeseen. What happens if you stall all your ordering for the day? When it’s your sole income, that could have some pretty risky consequences. Even if you’re just developing for a new design, you wouldn’t want toSome readers

• How To Fix The Error Establishing A Database Connection

  If you use WordPress on your website it's likely you've ran across the Error Establishing A Database Connection: (https://namehero.intercom-attachments-1.com/i/o/676212887/52aa70e1e608152d1716c52d/Screenshot-2018-03-30-10.43.26-1024x541.png?expires=1728570600&signature=0ebee45039ef4b9f6654e4ef73d57fc22f40ff12d6adb6af181f3175bce27d05&req=cichFMh8lYlSome readers

• How To Reset Your WordPress Admin Password

  Bookmark this page... You're going to eventually need it :) I don't know about you, but I run so many installations of WordPress, sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the logins. Sure, I have a good password manager, but sometimes things get mixed up and I find myself needing a password reset. Unfortunately, I not always remember what admin email I used at signup (I know that's terrible). Reset WordPress Password In phpMyAdmin Anyways, I figured out a VERY easy way to reset your wp-admiSome readers

• How To Secure Your WordPress Admin (wp-admin) Folder

  Website security is a big deal to us here at Name Hero, some may even say we’re hyper obsessed with keeping your files safe. Since we highly recommend the WordPress content management system (CMS), we feel it’s also important we show you exactly how to keep your install safe from any potential threats. In this blog, we’ll show you how to protect your WordPress administration area. It’s vital your WordPress admin area stay protected fromSome readers

• What Are WordPress Inode Limits?

  If you've had WordPress hosting for any length of time, it's likely you've ran across the Inode Limit inside your cPanel: (https://storaFew readers

• How To Restore WordPress Backups Inside cPanel

  Backups are essential to the security of your WordPress website. Regardless the size of your organization, you should always take backups very serious to secure your data. At Name Hero we provide complimentary nightly backups (one day retention) for our basic Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting packages that are accessible right inside of cPanel. Requirement For Backups In order to be eligible of our complimentary nightly backups your WordPress website mFew readers

• How To Setup A WordPress Staging Website

  It's never a good idea to make "live edits" to your WordPress website when you want to make big changes such as adding a new theme. The solution is to setup a staging site using a subdomain so you can make you changes, tweak everything, and then port it back to the live site once it's ready. Take A Backup Anytime you go messing with your file structure, you always want to take a full backup of your account incase something goes wrong. While we do takeFew readers

• How To Manually Add Your WordPress Install To Softaculous

  Step 1) Take A Full cPanel Backup Before Getting Started cPanel -Backup -Download Full Website Backup (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/969b95514757cFew readers

• How To Setup And Install WordPress At NameHero

  WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world and powers north of 100 million websites. It levels the playing field amongst entrepreneurs as it allows complete novices the ability to setup a professional looking website in a matter of minutes. No coding required. WordPress On The Cloud In 2018, gone are the days of having a traditional "old school" dedicated server. Moving your website to the cloud allows you to take advantage of scalable resources with a coupFew readers

• How To Remove Theme Footer Links

  Most WordPress themes display their name with a link back to their site. Here's an example: (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/cf7a36818b330000/810c79d4-e76d-4d5e-b200-dFew readers

• How To Stop Getting Spam Comments

  I've struggled with spam comments for years on my personal blog. When I first started blogging in 2006, I'd wake up in the morning with a ton of spam messages that had slipped through traditional spam solutions like Akismet. The useless traffic was killing my site speed, and I had to implement all kinds of complicated solutions to stay relatively free of bots. These days, Akismet is still around and still enabled by default on WordPress blogs around the world. And it still picks up a lot of sFew readers

• How To Fix The ManageWP Worker Plugin

  We all know how good ManageWP is for backing up and managing multiple WordPress websites. But what happens when their worker plugin fails to connect? (https://namehero.intercom-attachments-1.com/i/o/676208651/c5cfcd0e6ec22bf0eaf0141f/Screenshot-2017-06-21-14.51.39.png?expires=1728570600&signature=e0cc792b1f76bc5d230625917479dd40fa34d08a508d7d07f8e4d955b97d5bd8&req=cichFMl2m4ReFb4f3HP0gHiXc0YKE1U0esBFew readers

• How To Update Plugins And Themes Automatically

  99% of WordPress websites that have problems are because they're not properly updated. Just this week I had a customer get extremely angry because their site was infected with Malware and they couldn't possibly understand why. WordPress is free and open source software; therefore anyone in the world can download the full source code, meaning evildoers are constantly looking for ways to penetrate websites to carry out malicious activity (spam, phishing,Few readers

• How To Setup Wordfence Security Plugin For WordPress

  The second plugin I add to all my WordPress websites is Wordfence. Security is the most important part of your WordPress website as without taking strict measures you expose yourself to hacking threats, downtime, and many other costly problems. At Name Hero we've hardened our infrastructure to include automatic DDOS protection, nightly WordPress malware scanning/removal, but Wordfence adds an additional layer of security to your website. Look at itFew readers

• How To Add HTML To A WordPress Post

  The original design of WordPress was for posts and pages with text and image-based content. It didn't really envision that people would want to create complex HTML inside their content. Of course, we have the "Text" or "HTML" tab into which we can directly write HTML code, but it isn't ideal. For one thing, the WordPress editor makes its own changes to code before generating the page. This often has unintended side effects like an extra tag somewhere that can mess things up. Second, it usuaFew readers

• How To Install The LiteSpeed Cache Plugin For WordPress

  The first plugin I install for my WordPress websites is LiteSpeed cache. If you recall, last year LiteSpeed came out with their exclusive caching plugin and I did some speed comparisons using it + Cloudflare's Railgun. Since then, they've continued to improve the product, making it my go-to for all my WordPress websites. The improvement in speed is fantasFew readers

• How to Use WordPress Manager in cPanel

  WordPress is the world's most popular Content Management System (CMS) that helps individuals and businesses create and manage their websites. One of the most critical aspects of maintaining a WordPress site is to keep it up to date with the latest versions of plugins, themes, and the core WordPress software. In this article, we will guide you on how to use WordPress Manager in cPanel to update plugins, update themes, update the WordPress version, and manage users. What is WordPress ManagFew readers

• How To Host Multiple WordPress Websites

  NameHero is known around the world as a leader in Reseller and WordPress cloud web hosting. Given our experience using WordPress, we have perfected a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud that allows WordPress websites of all sizes have the availability that they need for their target audience. From small mom and pop websites to large 30,000 unique visitor a day websites, we host almost every type of customer you can imagine. There is no WordPrFew readers

• How To Find And Replaced In Your WordPress Database

  Sometimes you just need to change a word or a string of characters throughout your WordPress installation. And that text isn't always in the post content. Most of the information of WordPress resides in the database in hundreds of fields and a dozen tables. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to find and replace text in WordPress via the database - both manually and through a plugin. A short while ago, I was migrating a client's website to https, and was forced to use these methods to change alFew readers

• How To Diagnose and Fix Broken WordPress Website Layout

  If your WordPress website layout is broken, there could be several potential causes. Here’s a systematic approach to diagnose and fix the issue: 1. Check for Theme Issues Switch Themes: Temporarily switch to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Twenty-One to see if the issue persists. If the layout works with the default theme, the problem is likely with your theme. Update Theme: Make sure your theme is up-to-date. Outdated themes might not be compatible with the latest WordPress versioFew readers

• How To Block Bots And IP Addresses Inside WordPress

  How To Block Unwanted Bots From Your Site If you run a site for a while, a time will come when you're overwhelmed with a bot, or a set of bots. Perhaps you notice a sudden spike in usage of your site, and you get a warning from your host. You investigate and find that a single unknown bot has been making hundreds of thousands of requests to your site, hogging your disk and CPU usage. These threats are easily shut down once identified. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to block unwanted bFew readers

• How To Change Your WordPress Upload Limit

  We try to make things as easy as possible for our customers here at Name Hero. Specifically, we've optimized our entire managed cloud for WordPress to allow both our Shared and Reseller Hosting customers that ability to create and manage there sites without all the guesswork of some other web hosts. In years past, customers had to create custom php.ini files in order to modify their WordPress upload limiFew readers

• How To Fix The Image Upload Error In WordPress

  Image upload errors in WordPress can be very frustrating! Some of the most common include memory limit exhausted, image size exceeds upload limit, and a general http error. Thankfully the majority of these can be solved without having to make any edits to the code of your website. Increase PHP Limits The first step to troubleshooting these errors is to login to cPanel and increase your PHP limits. You can do this by going to cPanel-Select PHP Version -Switch To PHP OptioFew readers

• How To Uninstall And Reinstall WordPress

  WordPress is a powerful and efficient content management system (CMS) that many of our customers take advantage of, however, it’s not above causing trouble. Sometimes when WordPress causes errors such as locking MYSQL tables, the best course of action is to uninstall and reinstall the software. This is completely possible without losing any of your data or any of your search engine optimization (SEO) gains. Before we get started on how to uninstall and reinstall WordPress, keep in mind this isFew readers

• How To Fix Memory Exhausted Errors In WordPress

  There is nothing more frustrating than seeing this error: " Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 196608 bytes) in /home/resell/publichtml/wp-content/plugins/class-wc-rest-orders-controller.php on line 1415 " . This means the theme/plugin you're using on WordPress is using up all the memory allocated to PHP. You wouldn't believe (well maybe you would) how many times we get cursed out for this in our ticket desk! Anyways there is no need to fret,Few readers

• How To Clone Your WordPress Website Automatically

  Step 1. Prepare Your Destination The first thing you need to do prior to cloning your website, is decide where you want to put it. While you can simply put it inside a "subdirectory" (i.e. https://yourdomain.com/NEW), this can be a bit confusing, especially if you have your existing WordPress site in the root directory (i.e. https://yourdomain.com/). To keep things neat, I prefer creating a subdomain where all the files are isolated iFew readers

• How To Set Your Homepage In WordPress

  Today WordPress powers around 30% of all sites on the Internet. That's a staggering number. And while today it's suitable for just about any kind of site design, it still sticks to its original roots in the blogging world. As a result, the homepage displays a list of latest posts in reverse chronological order. While this is obviously great for a site that is primarily a blog, it doesn't work well for most others. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to change the homepage in WordPress to somethiFew readers

• How To Setup WordPress Multisite

  Have you ever tried hassling with multiple WordPress installations on one domain? The updating, configuring plugins, adding new themes, can be a really daunting task. Rather you're trying to manage your blogging network or have a website with separate editorial teams, you may find a lot of benefits in using WordPress Multisite. What Is WordPress Multisite? WordPress multisite is a module that's pre-integrateFew readers

• How To Setup A Page Redirect

  Let's say you're checking out your Google search console statistics and you find that some users have clicked through to a non-existent page on your site like this: (https://storage.crisp.chat/userFew readers

• How To Cleanup Your WordPress Website From A Hack (Malware)

  There is nothing more frustrating having a hacked WordPress website and not knowing where to turn. A lot of companies in the hosting industry will simply suspend the account and tell the customer to "fix it." In my opinion that only makes a bad decision worse. Here at NameHero we try to help our customers that face this unfortunate situation as much as we can so they can return to business as usual as quickly as possible. Preventative Maintenance Obviously, it's much better to prevent a hFew readers

• How To Add reCaptcha to Contact7 Form

  Everyday we see customer websites comes under attack by bots that submit their contact forms. It's a problem for everyone on the internet. This tutorial will easily explain how to stop that from being a problem for you! First things first, you'll need to go get a reCaptcha code from Google. Step 1: Go get your code! Visit this url! Give it an identifying label. Select v3. Enter your domain and click submit at the bottom. ​ (https://sFew readers

• How To Change Your WordPress Title

  Your WordPress title is one of the most important aspects of your website and it's very simple to edit. When I got started working online, if I wanted to edit the title of my website, I had to FTP into my site, open each page up in a text-editor and manually find the title tags to make edits. WordPress makes this extremely easy by placing the title throughout the site automatically. Since your WordPress title is the main headline for your site and the first way the search engines areFew readers

• How To Create A Child Theme

  If you're serious about maintaining a WordPress blog, then it's essential that you know how to create a child theme and use one yourself. A child theme is merely an extension of an existing theme that you can modify safely. Why not modify the parent directly? Because theme developers release updates of their software regularly, which replaces all the files and folders. So any changes you make to say, the CSS of a theme will be overwritten as soon as the theme is updated. To recap, you need a chFew readers

• WordPress Security Measures

  WordPress is one of the most used website builders on the internet. It's free, very customizable and is open source. Because of it's popularity, it is also the 1 target for hackers! Here at NameHero we provide Softaculous with WordPress Manager. Softaculous provides security features to keep your WordPress site secure. Follow the below guide to secure your WordPress website. The WordPress Manager security measures provides detailed information about each recommended update and allows you to uFew readers

• How To Add Custom Code In WordPress

  You'll often find code to insert while researching some WordPress problem. Most people who come across this for the first time, have no idea where to place it. The usual response is your theme's "functions.php". But this is a bad idea. Why not Use Functions.php for WordPress Code? Using functions.php to insert code in WordPress is dangerous for the following reasons. First, your theme can change. And when it changes, the functions.php file changes as well. This means that you'll have to porFew readers

• How To Schedule Posts In WordPress

  One of the main reasons I love using Wordpress is that I can go on vacation without anyone knowing. Simply type a series of posts and schedule them to be published automatically. Then using ManageFlitter, I can make sure the posts syndicate across my social networks, and I never miss a beat. I've even filled my team in on this little secret that allows them to come in to work when they want to and some get all their content queued up for the week in a matter ofFew readers

• How To Add Google Analytics To WordPress

  Google Analytics is such an important part of a webmaster's arsenal, that I honestly don't know a single site owner who doesn't use it. For tracking and reports, there's nothing better. And it's free! All you need to do is add a snippet of code to your website and you're done. The problem however, comes with Content Management Systems (CMSs) like WordPress where you don't want to manually change the page code. Usually, articles on the web will recommend that you use a plugin for this. There areFew readers

• How To Add A Shortcode

  Shortcodes are a very powerful feature in WordPress that allows you to replace some text with something else when the page is displayed. Since the processing for the shortcode happens in the background at runtime, the result can be different. Perhaps you want to pull a value from a database. In this step by step tutorial with screenshots, I'll show you how to add a shortcode, and how we can make it progressively more useful. Step 1: Adding a Basic Shortcode to WordPress To start with, you'llFew readers

• How To Switch WordPress PHP Version

  If you’re powering your website with WordPress and not using PHP 7+ you are missing out on a much faster experience! Many security benefits come with the newer php versions! Over the last year, we’ve helped clients migrate over from PHP 5.6 and have seen2x faster performance and 50% better memory consumption, allowing you to serve more concurrent users without adding any hardware. Optimizing WordPress We all know how important it is to have a fast-loadFew readers