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All Things WordPress: WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters

Anyone who has worked with WordPress before knows that it is both flexible and extensible; mainly because of the sheer number of plugins and themes…

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What Can a Custom WordPress Theme Do for Your Website?

Many people are unfamiliar with the benefits of custom WordPress themes for their WordPress website, and it’s something often overlooked or not budgeted for. If…

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Help! My WordPress Site Has Been Hacked!

It can happen to anyone. One minute you’re patting yourself on the back for all the hard work you’ve put into your website, and the…

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6 Reasons Why Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs Should Use WordPress

If you’re an entrepreneur or own a small business, you may find yourself in one of two predicaments with your website: You want a modern,…

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Keep Your WordPress Website Hacker-Free Like a Pro

Your website serves as one of your biggest assets; it’s the modern-day window into your business and people’s first resource to get to know you….

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55% of hacked WordPress sites are via plugins – how are yours looking?

According to a recent article from the great folks at Wordfence, over 55% of hacked websites are due to a vulnerability of a plugin on…

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WordCamp Atlanta 2016 Recap

This weekend marked the 6th annual WordCamp Atlanta, and although it was my first WordCamp appearance I heard from many that this year’s conference was…

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What is the dark web and why should I care?

You may have heard about the “dark web” here and there, but what exactly is it? It’s any set of web content that can’t be…

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Finding the best tools to make things happen

At this month’s Meetup, we talked about all of the tools we use at GreenMellen to help us keep moving forward. We dig into the…

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A new user role for your WordPress website

WordPress comes with a variety of roles giving administrators the ability to grant different levels of access to specific users. These roles are important to…

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Malware is getting worse, so keep your website secure

A popular form of malware on computers is known as “ransomware”. This malware will lock up all of your files and encrypt them, and the only…

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Don’t be too loyal to the brands you love

We all have brands that we love, whether it’s clothing, cars, electronics or any other area of life. There are reasons that we love those…

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How to change your WordPress username

For years, when you installed WordPress it would suggest that you set your username to “admin”. As a result, millions of WordPress sites have a…

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Presidential hopefuls love WordPress

As you may know, we love WordPress and use it for the core of every site we build. We have our reasons for using it,…

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What is a custom post type?

When using WordPress, most people stick to the built-in “posts” and “pages”. However, WordPress also has a powerful feature available called “custom post types”. While they…

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