WordPress Hosting
Key Selling Points
- Free and Open-source based on MySQL and PHP.
- Reliable Content Management (CMS) features are packed with tools for multichannel publishing, digital asset management, and SEO.
- The most popular blogging system on the web is used by over 60 million websites, i.e. 28% of the internet.
- WordPress is accessible and easy to set up for everyone. It covers most of the average user's needs to build the website they want.
- It can also be used to create brochure websites, professional-grade sites, portfolios, large news sites, e-commerce websites, etc.
- Responsive design, easy to install, customization and optimization.
- Plugins: To quickly extend the website functionality without requiring any coding or advanced technical skills.
- Craft a fully functional, structural, sound website.
Support: Self-service knowledge base available 24.7.365. Live chat support on weekdays, localized email support, contact forms and community forums
Customers: Bloggers, Professional looking websites, Businesses
Features
- Live article search, Drag & drop the article, voting, and layout options.
- Featured with template system and plug-in architecture
- The platform offers 59,000+ free plugins and 9,000+ free & professionally designed themes
- List articles shortcode and category widgets and re-arrange widgets without editing HTML or PHP code.
- Perfect for SEO: Clean permalink structure, custom URL, and support for tagging. WordPress SEO Tools are capable of dragging the site to the higher ranks and helping in the process of website growth and development.
- Easy-to-use interface, straightforward approach and supports multiple languages.
- Easy-to-use block editors: Beaver Builder, Elementor, and Divi
- Blogging tools: categories, comment moderation, post scheduling and tags
- Built-in SEO tools: Auto-generated XML sitemaps, Yoast, Mailchimp and Google Analytics
- E-Commerce: WooCommerce integration limited to WordPress Pro plan
WordPress Security
- Jetpack
- WordPress has a vital security feature, ‘Capability Check, ‘ which specifies allowed actions, authority, permissions, or user roles (like administrator, editor, etc.).
Managed WordPress Hosting
The hosting company provides maintenance, security, support, and optimization to achieve the best possible performance. The client gets a hassle-free experience from all worries about hackers, backups, or plugins with negative impacts.
WordPress Details
| Created in Year | 2003 |
| Created by | Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little |
| Type | free, open-source software |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Plugins | Approx. 59,000 |
| Hosted Websites on Platform | Approx. 500 Million |
Jetpack Professional Hosting
Powerful Managed WordPress Hosting Services
Features
- An image CDN and video CDN with no bandwidth restrictions
- In-depth website statistics, high-quality premium themes, advanced SEO tools, and priority access to WordPress experts at Automatic
- downtime monitoring
- comprehensive spam protection and on-demand malware scans
- daily backups powered by VaultPress
- Building with Blocks:
Competitors: Squarespace, Wix, Weebly
CMS Market Share: 65.1%
No. of Active Website (approximately): 43.4%
WordPress Ecosystem
| Year | |
| 2021 | $636 billion |
| 2020 | $596.7 billion |
Premium Organizations Using WordPress: The White House, Vogue, The Walt Disney Company, BBC America, Facebook Newsroom, TIME Magazine, Zoom, Tech Crunch, Sony Music, Spotify Newsroom, and Samsung News
Requirements
| Web Server | Apache or Nginx |
| PHP version | 7.4 or greater |
| MySQL | 5.7 or greater |
| MariaDB | version 10.3 or greater |
WordPress Errors and Fixes
WordPress is all about transparency; someone reports and resolves most mistakes before the user. However, some common mistakes cause the customer to have a panic attack. Beginners have the opportunity to check these via numerous tutorials available. The ten most common WordPress errors and their respective fixes are described below:
- Syntax Errors occur when the user misses something or when the code has incorrect syntax while trying to add code snippets into WordPress. The result is a PHP parse error and is viewed as:
Parse error – syntax error, unexpected $end in /public_html/site1/wp- content/themes/my-theme/functions.php on line 263
The error message indicates an erroneous entity and its location in the code. To fix this, the correct syntax needs to be corrected. In most cases, the culprit is a missing bracket or some inaccurate, unexpected character in the code. - Internal Server Error: Also viewed as 500 Internal Server Error, this usually happens when the server cannot identify and recognize the problem. The user is left in the lurch to detect the problem independently.
- Database Connection Error: It is evident that the reason for viewing this error is the inability of connect a website with the database. It may spell doom for a novice, but it can be easily solved by correcting database login authorization (database host, password, and username). The cause may also be an unresponsive or corrupted database.
- 404 Error: Viewed when a user visits a single post; the next step is to browse through all site sections with the admin area, looking out for permalink settings. To resolve this issue, the user must reconfigure permalink settings or manually update their rewriting rules.
- The sidebar below Content Error: When the sidebar appears below instead of next to the content, the cause is related to themes. While adding code scraps, failing to close the HTML div tag or adding an extra closing div may cause breakage in the theme layout. Further, other triggers include using disproportionate width in CSS and not clearing the float appropriately.
- Memory Exhausted Error: The cause of this error is the depletion of the default allocated memory size limit and is indicated by a white screen or an error message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2348617 bytes) in /home/username/public_html/site1/wp- includes/plugin.php online xxx
- White Text and Missing Buttons Error: This problem occurs when concatenated JavaScript does not work in the user’s admin area, missing or corrupting TinyMCE files or issues with other plugins that modify or extend TinyMCE shipped with WordPress.
- Locked Out of WordPress: When a user forgets a password and has no access to the password recovery email, it may result in being locked out of the WordPress admin area. Additionally, a plugin or code that wrongly tries to make some changes to the admin section and the action of changing all usernames and passwords due to the hacking of the WordPress site may be the reason, too.
- Login Page Refresh and Redirecting Issue: When the user tries to log in to the WordPress dashboard and is redirected back to a login page, the user needs to check the values for the site URL and home URL in the options table.
- Image Upload Issue: Sometimes, all images are viewed as broken, and on uploading to a post using a media uploader, it results in an error, and all files appear as broken. This occurs due to incorrect file and directory permissions in an installation of WordPress.
Although this list is not exhaustive, these common errors and their solutions will enable the user to breeze through most of them.
The ‘WordPress Membership Plugin plays a motivating role in personalizing content marketing strategy to reach customer attraction, engagement, and retention. Allowing website visitors to share fantastic content helps to grow the community and generate sales. The visitor shares their perceptions, beliefs and preferences, which businesses could use to improve user experience and build healthy relationships. Involving the visitors in content holds them more tightly with the brand and increases loyalty. The membership plugins increase website subscribers each time new content is posted, and an email goes to them to interact and create acceptable value for the content. All this builds website dynamicity, builds communities and fosters engagement. People with similar interests and goals continuously share their product/service experiences.
Yes, online forums and discussion boards were famous for all the above a decade ago. However, most web admins agree that this strategy is not working anymore. Still, it’s the best method for lead generation.
On February 27, 2024, Tumblr and WordPress’s announcement to sell user data for AI training raised questions about data privacy and ethical AI development and stirred the tech community. The companies are supposed to protect user privacy, especially personal information.
An unauthenticated site-wide stored [cross-site scripting] vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2023-40000 in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin version 5.7.0.1 in October 2023. The vulnerability is rooted in a function named update_cdn_status() and can be reproduced in a default installation. It enables unauthenticated users to escalate their privileges and steal sensitive information.
The plugin improves website performance and has over 5 Million installations. The latest version, 6.1, was released on February 05, 2024.
Add ‘favicon’ for more robust brand recognition across various digital spaces. It is a small icon next to the website name in a browser tab, used for browser bookmarks, iOS home screen buttons, and other touchpoints. WordPress theme options allow uploading and editing the favicon image.
WordPress membership & user profile plugin’ Ultimate Member’ allows WordPress site administrators to manage user registration, logins, profiles, and roles. It has more than 200,000 installations. Recently, the plugin faced a critical SQL injection vulnerability CVE-2024-1071, in which unauthenticated attackers allow attackers to append SQL queries that are exploited to extract sensitive data, according to a wording from security vendor Defiant. The high-scored vulnerability of 9.8 exists because of an insecure implementation in users’ query functionality, which results in the text sanitization function failing to protect against SQL injection attacks. The query structure allows attackers to take a time-based blind approach, using SQL CASE statements and the sleep command while observing the response time for the requests to steal information.
The provider fixed the vulnerability in version 2.8.3.