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…
Culture Code, Marketing & Content, News & Events, WordPress Support
WordPress Events in 2024 That Should Be On Your Radar
The best way to stay on top of the latest happenings in the WordPress world is to be a part of the diverse and ever-growing community. This year, there are a ton of exciting WordPress events lined up, each with unique opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. Whether you're a developer, a designer, a content…
Design, News & Events, Tech Talk
Not a developer, but want to know what all the WordPress 6.3 talk is about? Start here.
If your website runs on WordPress and you don’t work on the WordPress platform itself, this article is for you. While most developers and power users have some technical under-the-hood interest in the new release, there is not much information on how this update affects those who are not thoroughly immersed in the inner workings…
Are you still getting emails to “Take Action on Your Google Analytics Account”?
You probably know by now that Google is sunsetting Universal Analytics in favor of their new GA4 analytics. As of July 1, 2023, Universal Analytics will no longer be collecting data. If you've already created a GA4 account you may still be getting emails containing warnings that you need to "take action on your Google…
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…
Marketing & Content, News & Events, Tech Talk
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…