WordCamp US returns to the east coast at the end of August. That’s only 3 months away! This is the big yearly WordPress community conference open to everyone. It’s the one conference I’ve regularly attended since 2015. A huge value in both personal and professional connections. Considering there wasn’t a WordCamp US in 2020…
I recently converted my paid WordPress plugin WP Freighter into a free plugin. Have I mentioned before that I really dislike license keys? As a free plugin, there is no more need for license keys or Easy Digital Downloads. This greatly simplifies the plugin. Without EDD one thing I needed to figure out is…
Recently I had a customer ask for a two-factor authentication option for Anchor Hosting. That’s now been added and is ready to use. Customers can sign into the Anchor Hosting portal and activate 2FA from their profile page as shown here. Building 2FA using PHP and Javascript. If you’re a developer or just curious…
If your WordPress website has crashed recently due to the recent PHP 8 update then consider reaching out to Anchor Hosting. Included with every hosting plan is a free site migration. As part of migrating over your website, we’ll also be sure to update all themes and plugins and make sure it’s working with…
Before digging in a few clarifications on names. You’re reading a blog post on Anchor Hosting which is a managed WordPress web host. Today we’re talking about Anchor which is a podcasting platform service by Spotify. Got it? Anchor Hosting the web host is in no relation to Anchor.fm the podcasting service. The podcasting…
The world of AI-generated images has exploded. If you’ve never heard of Dall-E, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion then I’ll give you a quick explanation. You can now generate images from text. Artificially trained models understand a wide range of knowledge and can mix and match them for some wild results. Here at Anchor Hosting,…
It’s that time of year again. The end of life for PHP 7.4 is on November 28th, 2022. If you haven’t upgraded your WordPress website to PHP 8 or 8.1, now is the time. At Anchor Hosting we make sure all customer’s websites are running a supported version of PHP. I’m happy to report…
I’m often accessing the internet from different locations throughout the day and rarely have the same IP address. Sometimes you just need a static IP. For example, maybe you are dealing with a secured environment that can only be accessed by a certain IP address. The workaround hack is to create an SSH tunnel…
Let’s say you have a list of URLs. What’s the fastest way to scan all websites to see which are using a wildcard SSL? This is a follow-up to a post I wrote earlier this year, You Don’t Need A Wildcard SSL With Kinsta. I’ve been actively replacing Kinsta wildcard SSLs with standard SSLs…
I often help customers with DNS or domain changes like moving nameservers. Asking for a username and password is never a good idea and is treated as a last resort. Instead, I direct customers to share account access with Anchor Hosting. Sharing access allows me to sign in with my own account info (username,…