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…
Plugins, Tech Talk, Uncategorized
Understanding Key Types of WordPress Plugins
WordPress plugins can be a bit controversial. You’ll often see people react negatively to a high number of plugins installed on a website, but this is actually very misleading. The factor that matters with plugins is quality and purpose. Choosing Quality Plugins Each plugin is code being added to your website. If it’s well-written and…
Europe’s GDPR Data-Protection Law will Likely Affect You in the U.S. and Everywhere
GDPR makes you liable for penalties if you collect data on citizens of the European Union. Your location outside of Europe matters not. So it behooves you to know what this new law entails if you hope to comply with it. In a nutshell, GDPR obliges you to make some security-oriented changes to your website…
Accessibility for Your Website is a Must—Here’s Why
Per Valet: "Accessibility...is your friend. You should embrace it like a friend because it’s going to help you be more successful (not to mention keep you out of legal hot-water). Don’t let the dread-inducing terminology of the [accessibility] guidelines scare you. The more you know about them, the less trepidation you’ll feel."
Google to Further Penalize Websites Lacking SSL in 2017
Here's the skinny... SSL is a way of encrypting websites to make them safer and less hackable. Google is already penalizing sites that DON'T have this in place. Things are about to get a whole lot worse for pages with logins and credit card forms come January 2017. All WordPress sites have a login page, and…
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…