The Valet Blog
Bringing together tips, news, and everything you need to know about your WordPress site.
Why Choose WordPress in 2024
In 2020, we published a post titled '3 Simple Reasons to Use WordPress', highlighting scalability, flexibility, and ownership as the key factors that make WordPress an excellent choice for site owners. These reasons remain as valid as ever in 2024 and we would like to take those core reasons and expand a bit on the…
The Benefits of Expert WordPress Support
Imagine this: You've just had that lightbulb moment for a business idea, so you set out to develop a website to showcase your vision to the world. You hire a developer or do it yourself, purchase web hosting, and select premium WordPress plugins and themes. After lots of hard work and dedication, the project is…
6 Unconventional Sources of Web Design Inspiration
As web designers, we’re often on the hunt for inspiration to fuel our creativity and take our projects to new heights. Sometimes, we can find ourselves scouring through endless online sources, hoping to find something that sparks our imagination. But occasionally - despite our best efforts, there are times when we face that dreaded designer’s…
Should Your Web Developers Be Available by Phone?
We're all familiar with the nightmare that can be working with a web developer on a project. You talk to someone on the phone and via email. They really seem to understand how to build websites. The pricing matches your expectations. And so, not having many clear expectations, you agree to the build—paying half up…
WordPress Re-Themeing for Maximizing Results
Smart teams know that a highly efficient process yields better results. When your daily tasks require interaction with your website, it’s important that it be incredibly responsive. Basically you want to be able to get your job done quickly and keep moving with your day.
Launched: American Massage & Bodywork Institute Website
Valet is excited to announce the launch of the American Massage & Bodywork Institute website, affectionately called AMBI by our team. The partners behind this new massage school approached Valet to create an entirely new brand, which immediately got our strategic and creative juices flowing. AMBI didn't yet exist, so the school needed a whole…
The 3 Step Email Campaign That Works Every Time
Sending emails is one of the oldest marketing techniques on the internet. Whether you create your email lists by asking your readers to sign up, asking your paying customers to opt in, or giving something of value away for free in exchange for an email address, you know that "the money is in the list"—or so you've…
Live Video Streaming. The Right Platform for your Business and Demographic?
In the past 6 months, we've seen an extreme rise in the popularity of live video streaming. Services like Periscope, Meerkat, Blab.im have struck a nerve with millions of broadcasters and viewers alike. But is live video streaming something you should be doing in your business? What are the benefits? What are the potential pitfalls? Let's…
Welcome Pantheon as a Preferred Partner!
The WP Valet team loves building strong relationships in the community. It's exciting to grow and work with new people. This month, we're very happy to announce that Pantheon—a WordPress and Drupal hosting company—is now working with WP Valet as partner. To get things off to a smooth start, our team took a trip out to San Francisco…
Google’s “Mobile Friendly” Update to Reward Sites
Google announced that starting on April 21st, 2015 there would be a boost in rankings for mobile-friendly web pages. This would include pages that are legible and usable on mobile devices, and it would affect mobile search results worldwide. (Conversely, pages designed for only large screens would see a significant decrease in rankings in mobile search…
Are You Under Attack? Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
One of the reasons why WP Valet clients use our maintenance service is protection. Security issues arise on the internet constantly, and our team makes it our business to identify and protect you from threats to your web presence. A big one to hit the internet this year was the Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability. Hackers constantly explore…
Should Your Business Have a Mobile App?
You know that having a mobile-friendly business website is now more important than ever, but what about mobile apps? Do they still matter as much as they used to? It's especially important to consider this question when thinking about the brand recognition and marketing of your business and it's products and services. Let's take a…
Should You Be Concerned If Your Business Website Isn’t Mobile-Ready?
Just a few days ago, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm. In short, they are now giving preference to sites that are "mobile-ready" when seen in search results on mobile devices. This makes sense because if you've ever tried to navigate through a website on your phone that was not mobile-ready, you quickly…
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Why We Choose Pagely for WordPress Hosting
Towards the end of the 2014/early 2015 we migrated all of our internal sites and managed host clients sites to Pagely's servers. While we knew this was a huge undertaking we feel that our job at WP Valet is to stay as true as possible to our mission of providing the BEST service possible for our clients. We've been…