WordPress Begins Warning of Future PHP 7 Requirement

Last week WordPress began displaying a PHP Update Required warning in the administrative dashboards of all websites running WordPress v5.1+ that have their hosting accounts configured to use PHP 5.6 or lower. WordPress plans to increase the minimum version of PHP required to run upcoming versions of the software to PHP 7 in the near future. At this time no date or specific version of WordPress has been announced for when this requirement change will …

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Celebrating Summer with Free SSL Certificates for all Blue Pixel Design Hosting Customers!

Free SSL Certificates

One feature I’ve been frequently asked about this year has been HTTPS / SSL support for customer websites. While this has always been possible through the purchase of a traditional SSL certificate, which would typically set you back a hundred dollars and require a manual installation, we’re about to make enabling HTTPS a lot easier. Today Blue Pixel Design Hosting is launching a fully automated system to install and renew free SSL certificates to all …

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WordPress Security Package

Wordpress Security Package

When it comes to CMS (Content Management Systems), WordPress is a beast!  Over 74 million websites are run on WordPress, including 50% of Technorati’s top 100 blogs.  It is unsurpassed in the amount of customization that can be done to websites, with over 3000 free themes, and 36, 000 free plugins available.  It has an extremely easy to use interface, which makes it popular with bloggers and business owners alike. But like any technology at …

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How do I set up email on my iPhone?

How do I set up email on my iPhone?

Follow these instructions after you’ve set up your email account in cPanel. First, locate and press the Settings icon. Scroll down, then select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select Add Account.  And then choose Other. Tap Add Mail Account. Enter the Name, Email Address, and Email Password of the email account you’re adding.  A description will appear, but you can change that to whatever you like. When finished, tap Next. Choose IMAP or POP. Both POP (Post Office …

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Blue Pixel Design Launches WordPress Optimized Hosting Plans

Wordpress Optimized Hosting

Our next generation platform and WordPress optimized hosting plans have just been launched! This new hosting platform has been built to address the performance and security needs of modern websites. A lot has changed with how customers use our services over the past few years and our new platform was built to help protect their websites from attack, which has become a huge problem, and to really enhance their performance as new technologies like our …

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How can I reduce the amount of spam I receive?

How can I reduce the amount of spam I receive?

You can filter out over 99% of your email spam just by turning on MailScanner, our email spam and virus scanning service found in your cPanel. How MailScanner works is that all incoming email is scanned and assigned a spam score based on a number of attributes and triggers that are regularly updated to ensure the latest spam detection technology. The higher the spam score, the more likely the email is to be spam. When …

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How do I enable caching for WordPress?

How do I enable caching for Wordpress?

These instructions are for clients on one of our WordPress Optimized Hosting plans. LiteSpeed Cache is a plugin that works directly with our installation of LiteSpeed Web Server and its built-in page cache, LSCache. Because LSCache is built directly into LSWS, overhead is significantly reduced and caching can be done more efficiently than with other PHP-based caches. Before proceeding please ensure that all existing WordPress caching plugins are disabled. Start by logging into your WordPress …

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WordPress Backup & Update Package

Wordpress Backup & Update Package

When it comes to CMS (Content Management Systems), WordPress is a beast!  Over 74 million websites are run on WordPress, including 50% of Technorati’s top 100 blogs.  It is unsurpassed in the amount of customization that can be done to websites, with over 3000 free themes, and 36, 000 free plugins available.  It has an extremely easy to use interface, which makes it popular with bloggers and business owners alike. But like any technology at …

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