It’s that time of year where every website publishes their year end retrospectives. Here’s some interesting stats I saw about WordPress in 2019 (from hostingtribunal.com)
- WordPress powers 34% of the internet in 2019, a 4% rise from the previous year.
- If you count only the CMS-built sites, then about 60% of them are WordPress
- Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month
- 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce (a popular WordPress Plugin)
- 281 new WooCommerce shops appear on average every day
- 661 WordPress sites also pop up daily
As you know, WordPress is CU*Answers Web Services’ platform of choice due to its ease of use and flexibility.
Dec 20, 2019 at 11:37 am by David
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Recently Web Services has been working with Credit Union staff who are aspiring web developers. It’s great seeing our clients get more tech savvy.
This particular article came across my news feed this week and I wanted to share it. It looks like a good set of fundamentals for what a web professional does every day.
I have not read the entire series (it’s pretty long), but I definitely like the metaphor describing what is being taught in this series:
Creating a website is like building a house. You need tools: your editor, your browsers, your command line. You need building materials: HTML language. And then you want to make it look nice: CSS, JavaScript and Images. (From the Overview).
Check out this series. It will give you some insight into what we do every day as web developers, or if you are an aspiring developer, it’s a nice series to get your started on the basics.
Intro to Web Development by Brian Holt
Dec 11, 2019 at 9:46 am by David
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As part of your WordPress Managed hosting with CU*Answers Web Services, we have automatically updated all websites to the latest WordPress 5.3 release. This helps keeps your website secure and tracking along with the other system level components. CU*Answers Web Services regularly updates your WordPress core and plugin files.
With WordPress 5.3 you will notice cosmetic updates to the WordPress Dashboard, including some changes that improve accessibility. Other notable improvements are updates to the Gutenberg editor (which we’re exploring with a few clients) and large image handling. The large image handling will certainly help some client website’s performance if they are unable to optimize their banner images before uploading.
For more behind the scenes details, check out WP Tavern’s coverage of WordPress 5.3.
The Domain Name System (DNS) can be confusing. It’s the phonebook of the Internet and what maps friendly human names (like cuanswers.com) to their actual Internet addresses (IP address) like 216.206.109.129. To get your website actually online, you need to register your domain name with a Registrar and then set up DNS to point the domain to your web hosting provider. You have to keep all these pieces wired up correctly and don’t forget your email services too. DNS is the glue that binds it all together.
Here’s an 10 part Twitter thread that offers a quick crash course on what the parts of DNS are and why you need them.
Chris Achard on Twitter: “Confused by DNS Records? A, CNAME, ALIAS… Me too 😬 Let’s change that! (cheatsheet at the end) 🔥 DNS Record crash course for web developers 👇” / Twitter
Take a look.
You know we love WordPress. Even though it was a few years ago, it feels like just yesterday we were celebrating that WordPress powers over a quarter of the websites on the web.
Well, just this month, WordPress is reporting (via W3Techs) that WordPress now powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites on the web.
Check out the article. It’s pretty amazing to read about the growth of WordPress.
Mar 25, 2019 at 9:36 am by David
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We just published this article on CU*Secure.org for your members, but this article from MDaemon Blog is a great list of tips for all email users.
Email security isn’t just the email provider or administrator’s responsibility. It’s everybody’s responsibility. While the mail server’s administrator may have tools to help block spam, phishing and other malware, they can’t stop or prevent everything. As the mail server’s tools get better, the bad guys just up their game.
Are you educating your email users about safety and security?
We’ve noticed an uptick in the amount of spam being sent to our clients as well as an increase in the number of drive-by scans on the server. It’s important that everyone remains aware and security conscious.
Check out these tips on the MDaemon Blog. Share them with your fellow email users.
Mar 25, 2019 at 9:29 am by David
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