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…
A Case for WordPress Plugins
Here at Valet, we’ve helped support hundreds of websites over the years. Everything from one-page business card sites, to full web app style sites that support thousands of users daily. Through all of that, we’ve learned a few different things about plugins that I would like to share with you. This recently came to light…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
When “Maintenance” is a misnomer
I've got a long history of many feelings about the word "maintenance". I've run the gambit from loving it to hating it and everything in between. My CoFounder even wrote a blog post at one point and time about how we had temporarily banned the word from our company vocabulary. As the original WordPress maintenance…
Website exceeding traffic limits— is it real, or is it bots?
Most of the WordPress hosting companies track the number of visits for the website. Then based on that they set pricing plans. Here is the common scenario: the website was running for years on one hosting plan. Then, you received an email saying that your visits are UP and the website is exceeding traffic limits.…
Export Data From WordPress Into a CSV File
Here is the scenario: you have the Events Calendar plugin or WP Ninja Tables Pro installed on your website and over 7,000 entries that you need to export that data into a CSV file for a project. How do you do it easily and ensure the integrity of your data? WordPress has a built-in tool…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
Who Owns Your Domain?
Over the past 20 years, I've seen my share of poor website decisions. One of those decisions stands high above the others. I am not talking about music that automatically starts playing or scrolling marquee text -- I am talking about domain ownership. I know exactly how it happens. A vendor needs to launch a new…
How to Add Tracking Code in the WordPress Website Head Section
From time to time, you'll come across the need to add a tracking code in the WordPress Head section of the website. Google Analytics and some other third-party integration use this method to track visitors. This portion of the website is often not easily accessible within the admin area of the website. It can seem…
Moving from Password Expirey to 2 Factor Authentication
Whether you have a large membership site or just a couple of administrators, it's important to provide a secure login experience. Secure logins help to minimize the chances of data loss, identity theft, and fraud. There are many tools available to help you do this within your WordPress website. Here we will talk specifically about…
Do you need to update your website footer?
New Year is behind us. It is that part of the year when we make New Year’s resolutions and spend time with our loved ones. This is part of what makes the New Year special. This time of year, we pay attention to the things that matter most. But what about your website? It also…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
Google Chrome to put your website speed on display
Google Chrome plans to put your website speed on display, for better or for worse.
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
How We Approach Website Speed
Planning this article was an interesting experience. My goal was to publicize what Valet’s opinion and approach is to website speed. At the same time, I needed to express that opinion in a way that’s different from your typical blog post about website speed. I think the best way to do that is to…
Two Primary Ways To Use WordPress Reusable Blocks
WordPress Reusable Blocks are awesome! They're one of my favorite features included in the release of WordPress 5.0 - also referred to as Gutenberg - which was mentioned in our 9 Questions About Gutenberg. There were some stellar new features included in this release of WordPress that can be very helpful for those wanting to…
Marketing & Content, Tech Talk
PunkPOS Helps WordPress Users (and Others) Achieve Greater Success by Automating Business Processes
PunkPOS is to business process automation what Valet is to website health. It's the first choice of people who want to spend less time doing back-of-shop drudgery and more time making their own customers happy. PunkPOS specializes in business process automation—BPA for short. BPA is worth considering if the running of your website involves lots…