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WPMUDEV Adds Performance and Function to you Managed WordPress Website

By Trevor Current
Monday, July 24th, 2017

WPMUDEV are the developers of the Premium Upfront theme framework, a visual drag and drop WordPress website builder. They have 8 Upfront starter Themes available including Luke + Sara designed specifically for photographers and cinematographers.

Where WPMUDEV really shines is with their 100+ Premium Plugins. They have created some of the best back-end management plugins out there (some of which we use on our Client websites). Their website performance plugins, Hummingbird and WP Smush Pro, greatly increase website loading speeds which is a key factor that Google uses in its ranking algorithm.

One of their latest plugins, Hustle, is perfect for sales lead capture and email opt-ins. Its flexible design templates, visitor targeting, metrics, and integration with third party mail service providers, makes it a great choice for your marketing needs.

We invite you to visit WPMUDEV to learn more about their products.

Categories : Blog

Create Beautiful Photography Websites with Imagely Themes and Plugins

By Trevor Current
Monday, July 24th, 2017

Imagely makes beautiful Premium Themes designed specifically for photographers. Their Child Themes are built on the Genesis Framework and have a modern, clean design to make your photography stand out! There are 16 Themes available and you can view demos of each on their website.

Imagely is also the developer of NextGEN Gallery, the most popular photo gallery plugin for WordPress. Their Premium extensions allow you to display your photography through modern designed slideshows and galleries, provide client proofing, and product sales.

We invite you to visit Imagely to learn more about their products.

Categories : Blog

Elegant Themes for Your Managed WordPress Website

By Trevor Current
Monday, July 24th, 2017

Elegant Themes was founded 10 years ago by Nick Roach. What started out as a one-man operation in Nick’s college apartment, has grown into a diverse and distributed team of 50 WordPress enthusiasts from all around the world.

As the company name suggests, they hold elegance at their core and create simple and beautifully designed Themes and Plugins.

Leading their product line is Divi, the most popular Premium WordPress Theme in the world. Its visual drag & drop page builder makes it easy to create the website of your dreams without writing having to write a line of code. Here’s a short video that shows how their inline visual editor works:

Their Divi Builder Plugin is built with the power of the Divi Theme and creates a Drag & Drop page builder that works with any WordPress Theme.

Extra is their latest magazine style Theme powered by their Divi Builder plugin. If you’re a Photographer looking to build your presence in the photo community by sharing your knowledge and expertise through blogging and video, this may be the perfect theme for you.

Two additional Plugins you’ll also want to check out are Monarch, for social media sharing, and Bloom, for email opt-in and sales lead capture.

Elegant Themes has 87 Premium Themes and 5 Premium Plugins the choose from. We invite you to visit their website to learn more about their products.

Categories : Blog

The Client Portal is Now Live!

By Trevor Current
Monday, July 17th, 2017

After many months of planning and building, we’re excited to announce that the Current Photographer Client Portal is now live!

The Client Portal was designed to make working together even easier. You’ll be able to request Support, view our Support Garage knowledge base, watch our WordPress Training videos, and review your monthly contract work.

Once logged in to the Client Portal, click on the Support button in the navigation. You’ll be able to review our Support Garage articles, click to Submit a Ticket, and View Your Tickets. Our new Support Ticketing system will help us help you better, by keeping all requests and conversations in one convenient location.  If you’ve previously submitted a Support Ticket, you’ll see it listed on the page. You can click on each Ticket to read the threaded conversation and reply to the previous message. If you need to submit a new Support Ticket, just click the big orange button.

Are you new to WordPress, or maybe just need a little brushing up on how to use the WordPress Admin? Our WordPress Basic Training contains a library of 50 video tutorials to help get you up to speed fast! We have plans to add more Advanced Training videos covering some of the most popular plugins used in WordPress websites today.

If you’re a Priority Support client, or have a custom monthly support contract with us, you’ll find reports in your Client Portal that provide real-time details and time tracking for your project requests. As we complete a task, the report is automatically updated so you’ll always know the status of your project and your support contract.

Be sure to check the System Status and News & Updates sections for all the latest information about your managed WordPress hosting and support account!

Categories : Blog

Help Save the Internet, Protect Net Neutrality!

By Trevor Current
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017

Some of the biggest names online are coming together to help protect our internet. Amazon, Kickstarter, Twitter, Etsy, Netflix, and many more are joining the July 12th protest against the FCC’s attack on Net Neutrality.

Among this notable list of supporters is Automatic, the keepers of the WordPress CMS. They are encouraging the millions of WordPress website owners to support the cause by virtually signing the petition. They have even gone as far as creating a plugin that you can install on your website to encourage your visitors to get involved.

So what is Net Neutrality?

Net Neutrality is the idea that all internet traffic is treated equally. Whether you’re shopping on Amazon, streaming a movie from NetFlix, or reading a post on your favorite niche blog, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) would deliver that content at the same speed without blocking sites, slowing down, or charging extra fees for delivery.

Net Neutrality levels the playing field and allows online businesses small and large to reach customers, and protects free speech by prohibiting ISPs from slowing or blocking sites or messages they don’t agree with.

How can you help?

If you believe that the internet should be open and free, then join fight by sending a message of support to the FCC. On July 12, 2017 visit BattleForTheNet.com and install the WordPress Net Neutrality plugin.

Categories : Inside WordPress

WordPress Paying Bug Bounties on HackerOne

By Trevor Current
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

WordPress is an Open Source Content Management System that allows users to build websites and blogs. We’ve been using the WordPress platform to build websites for our clients since 2009 and feel it is the best free CMS available today. And we’re not the only ones, WordPress now powers more than 28% of all sites on the web.

Because of the nature of “Open Source”, the WordPress core software is openly available to anyone in the world to use, including hackers! This unfortunately gives them the ability to spend countless hours trying to find bugs and flaws in the code to exploit for malicious purposes.

The Security Team at WordPress has been working hard to combat hackers, and to take it a step further, they have officially joined HackerOne.

The HackerOne platform was designed so security researchers can report vulnerabilities to the WordPress Security Team in a safe and responsible manner. They began working on this project privately just over a year ago and have finally made it public.

With the HackerOne announcement, WordPress has also introduced bug bounties. They reward reporters for disclosing issues to better help secure the WordPress platform. They have already awarded over $3,700 in bounties to seven different reporters.

So what does this mean for your WordPress powered website?

It takes a village to keep a project like WordPress moving forward, and the core contributors can’t do it alone. With the addition of the HackerOne community seeking those bug bounties, it will allow the WordPress Security Team to work more efficiently to patch the code and push security updates to your website.

 

 

At Current Photographer we take security very seriously. With our Managed WordPress Hosting, we make sure that our client’s websites are backed up daily, and protected with multiple firewalls throughout our enterprise-grade infrastructure. Our real-time security threat detection, and security audits and code reviews help to keep client’s sites safe. Should a website become compromised, we will immediately take action to find the exploit, remove the malicious code, and have the site back up and running in no time.

Categories : Inside WordPress
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