How to Protect Your WordPress Website with Cyber Security

How to Protect Your WordPress Website with Cyber Security

In today’s digital landscape, securing your WordPress website is more crucial than ever. With millions of websites running on WordPress, it's a prime target for hackers and cybercriminals. Implementing effective cybersecurity measures is essential to safeguard your data, maintain your reputation, and ensure a seamless experience for your users....

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Enhancing WordPress Security: How Wordfence Keeps Users Informed

Enhancing WordPress Security: How Wordfence Keeps Users Informed

WordPress powers a significant portion of the internet, making it a prime target for cyber threats. Security plugins play a crucial role in safeguarding WordPress websites, and among them, Wordfence stands out as a robust solution. One key aspect of an effective security strategy is prompt notification of potential vulnerabilities or security...

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WordPress Security with Wordfence

WordPress Security with Wordfence

WordPress powers a significant portion of the internet, approximately 46% of websites are now running WordPress. This makes WordPress an attractive target for cyber threats. Website owners need robust security measures to protect their online assets from potential vulnerabilities. Wordfence, a popular WordPress security plugin, emerges as a...

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Wordfence Helps Fortify Your Digital Kingdom

Wordfence Helps Fortify Your Digital Kingdom

It is not often that I sing the praises of WordPress plugins but I have found one plugin that I install on all my WordPress installations. This plugin is my top security plugin used to enhance the security of WordPress and help heep hackers out. In the vast landscape of WordPress security plugins, one name stands out as a guardian of websites...

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Optimize Your WordPress Website For Better Performance

Optimize Your WordPress Website For Better Performance

WordPress is a very popular website framework used by over 500K websites in Canada (35M around the world). Most of these websites use the basic vanilla out-of-the box installation without any tweaks applied. While a vanilla WordPress installation will work properly, there are some tweaks that will improve performance. Not only will these tweaks...

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Add Shipping and Handling Prices to WooCommerce

Add Shipping and Handling Prices to WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a powerful e-commerce platform for WordPress that allows you to create and manage an online store with ease. While WooCommerce offers a variety of options, there may be cases where you need to customize the way shipping and handling prices are calculated. In this article, we'll explore how to add shipping and handling prices to...

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Add a Payment Trust Badge to Your WooCommerce Checkout Page

Add a Payment Trust Badge to Your WooCommerce Checkout Page

In the world of online shopping, trust is a crucial factor in converting visitors into customers. One effective way to build trust with your online store visitors is by prominently displaying payment trust badges on your WooCommerce checkout page. These badges reassure customers that their payment information is secure and that they can shop with...

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How to Hide a Product Category from Search in WooCommerce

How to Hide a Product Category from Search in WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a powerful e-commerce plugin for WordPress that allows you to sell products and manage your online store efficiently. While WooCommerce provides a plethora of features and customization options, sometimes you may want to hide a specific product category from search results. Perhaps you have a category that's not meant for public...

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Code Snippets for Enhancing WooCommerce Functionality

Code Snippets for Enhancing WooCommerce Functionality

WooCommerce, a widely popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, offers a plethora of features to create and manage an online store. While WooCommerce is incredibly versatile out of the box, there are times when you need to customize or extend its functionality to meet your specific requirements. This is where code snippets come into play. In this...

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Are you updating your WordPress website?

Are you updating your WordPress website?

WordPress is a powerful content management system (CMS) that powers over 40% of all websites on the internet. It's known for its ease of use, flexibility, and large community of developers who create and maintain plugins, themes, and other tools. With such popularity comes security issues. Hackers are always trying to break into and take...

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PHP 8: Is your WordPress website ready?

PHP 8: Is your WordPress website ready?

PHP 7 has been a popular and widely used version of PHP for many years. However, its end of life (EOL) occurred in November 2022. Once PHP reaches End of Life, there will be no more patches or security updates. This poses a significant security risk for websites and web applications still running on PHP 7. Without security updates, websites may...

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Is your web hosting server secure?

Is your web hosting server secure?

Known as an expert WordPress trouble-shooter, I often receive calls from clients about hacked websites.  Recently, I received an email from an IT services company that also hosts websites for some of their clients. One of their websites was hacked and showing malware warnings. The site was also redirecting to another location. After providing the...

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Wordfence Helps Fortify Your Digital Kingdom

5 Ways to Protect Your WordPress Website

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) used by millions of websites around the world. While it is easy to use and has many powerful features, it is important to properly protect your WordPress website. A security breach on your WordPress site can have serious consequences, including the loss of sensitive data, damage to your...

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Pay by Invoice WooCommerce Setup

Pay by Invoice WooCommerce Setup

As part of giving back to the WordPress community, I often browse WordPress and WooCommerce support forums looking for questions posed by website owners seeking to add a little additional functionality to their WordPress / WooCommerce installation. Most times, the default go-to answer provided by others is to try this theme or that plugin. I am...

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Most Common WordPress Problems

Most Common WordPress Problems

At Majaid Web Solutions, we have worked on over 350 WordPress websites. We have provided solutions to a variety of problems. Over time, we have noticed several trends when dealing with problems experienced by small business owners. It seems that four problems keep occurring resulting in clients reaching out for support. Here are the four most...

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Add extra functionality to your WordPress website

Add extra functionality to your WordPress website

WordPress is very flexible when looking to change the look and functionality of your website. You can change the theme to get a completely new look. Each theme has a set of templates that permits the customization of different areas that make up a WordPress web page. You can also add plugins to give that extra bit of functionality (that doesn’t...

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How to modify your WooCommerce online store

How to modify your WooCommerce online store

According to WordPress, over 5 million websites use the WooCommerce plugin to run their online store. In fact, WooCommerce is used by more online stores than Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, Magento, and Weebly combined. Out of the box, WooCommerce makes it easy to set up your online store and start selling your products and services. But what happens...

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How to create a successful website

How to create a successful website

Launching a website is easy. All you have to do is signup for one of the online hosting services such as Wix, Squarespace, or GoDaddy and create your website using their page building application. Once created, you publish your new website and wait for the new clients to come pouring in. Most times however, there is nothing but crickets. Running...

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How to properly update WordPress

How to properly update WordPress

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.Edsger Dijkstra According to Sucuri, almost 60% on the hacked websites they fixed in 2019 had outdated software.  The WordPress security firm, Wordfence, publishes new security issues on a regular basis (typically after they notify the...

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