Rescuing a WordPress site from a plugin update fail

Updating plugins on your WordPress website is a critical task to ensure your site is safe and secure at all times….

Improved spam filtering rolling out across Mercury email

Over the last few months we’ve been testing a new and improved spam filtering system for Mercury email users. This is now…

How to do that branding thing

In the previous post in this series, we discussed what content marketing is, how it works, why it’s different than blogging, and how important…

WordPress platform performance updates

While our WordPress Hosting performs very well for most users, every site is not built the same; as such we’re always working hard to improve performance…

WordPress 4.9.3 advisory – what you need to know

Ordinarily, a minor WordPress core update will come and go with little fanfare. These minimal updates usually fix a range of smaller bugs…

What’s the difference between blogging and content marketing?

There’s a huge difference between blogging and content marketing, yet there’s also a lot of confusion between the two. Companies and…

Meltdown and Spectre and your web hosting

What a way to start the new year! We’ve no sooner pulled down the Christmas tree than two huge new security exploits have…

Getting WordPress started with Jetpack

One of the most popular plugins in the WordPress repository is Jetpack by Automattic. Many users will have come across this plugin before, as such…

SSL matters more than ever in 2018

Recent research by Hubspot supports what we’ve been pestering you about for a while now. A staggering – or not so staggering depending on…