This will be a very dated post so I’ll start off by saying today is Tuesday, September 26th, 2023. A year from now my thoughts on Kinsta’s best and worst features will change. That’s because the development team over at…
Have you ever attempted to review server logs only to find out it was too late? WordPress sites with Kinsta keep the last few days of server logs. That’s great for fixing an immediate issue, however, it’s not a good…
Back in 2016 WordPress 4.7 added PDF thumbnail previews, meaning any PDF uploaded to WordPress would generate an image thumbnail. This handy feature improved viewing the image library and was also useful on the front end. I’m not sure when…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…