How to Set Up WordPress Multisite Network - Multisite is a powerful WordPress feature that, once activated, allows you to create a network of websites running off of a single WordPress installation. It’s been around since WordPress 3.0 and quite a lot of big sites use it – WordPress.com, the New York Times, Harvard, and Edublogs to name a few. Read on to learn how to set up WordPress multisite. If you have a WordPress site, you’ve got all you need to set up multisite – you just need to swit...

Running a Successful WordPress Webinar - On September 16th 2014, a new world record was set when 12,091 people attended the largest ever webinar held by Glavbukh in Russia. What makes this figure so astounding is the fact that only ten years earlier, almost nobody had even heard the word “webinar”. In recent years, many businesses have come to realize the amazing potential of webinars as a marketing tool. A 2016 survey by Content Marketing Institute found that webinars ranked as the 2nd mos...

Personalizing Web Experiences to Increase Conversions - Have you ever met a stranger and instantly hit it off? They’re interested in all the same things you are, the conversation flows easily, and you feel like you’ve been friends for years… Such situations might not manifest themselves every day, but we can all agree that it’s pretty awesome when they do. So what if you could make your website into the equivalent of that stranger? That’s the allure of personalized web experiences. Website ...

Narrowing WordPress Search - One thing you should know about me is that while I’m pretty savvy when it comes to building things for the web today, I’m still pretty new to it. I spent my childhood building theme parks in Roller Coaster Tycoon, not Flash games for Newgrounds. Rather, I gravitated toward web development during the final year of college and because of that, I am a bit of a superstitious developer. That is, I tend to fall into the trap of thinking any code I don’t understand bac...

A Citizen’s Guide to Open Source Communities - Contributing to open source communities can be a rewarding way to learn, teach, and gain experience in just about any skill imaginable, including code. But getting started, finding an open source project to contribute to, and understanding the etiquette can be a daunting thing when you’re starting out. So much so that an opensource.com survey of its readers found that for 56% of respondents, the biggest barrier to participation in open source w...

PHP Object Injection and Insecure Unserialize - I wrote about an influx of PHP Object Injection attacks previously, warning about a trend of attacks targeting a known but somewhat under-reported PHP vulnerability. Looking back since that time, I get the odd feeling that object injection (or as they’re sometimes called unserialize) vulnerabilities keep cropping up. Wondering if this is just a frequency illusion (once you notice something like a certain make/model of a car, you notice it ever...

How to Create a WordPress Staging Site (and Why You Need One)

My Role: Sally Strebel - Sally Strebel Title: Founder + COO of Pagely My role at Pagely encompasses many things. I’m proudest of helping to build and maintain an utopian work environment for teammates which in turn benefits our clients. The Pagely adage imitates the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This may sound simplistic; however, to accomplish this goal with various personalities, our environment must encompass trust, kindness, knowledge, and honor. Trust ...

My Role: H. Cyrus Kia - Title: Customer Support Platform Engineer WHO AM I? My love for tinkering, giving and nomadic tendencies were instilled in me at a young age by my father – an Electrical Engineer who has been blessed to travel often for work. I started down my path to Pagely by blogging, doing Web Management and basic design for Community Colleges and nonprofits, and eventually, after a college and a bit of globetrotting, I entered the Web Hosting industry in 2014. WHAT I DO AT PAGEL...