If you are a website administrator, security should be at the top of your list. That’s why your first step should be to work with Inmotion’s WordPress Hosting team to get your website up and running. After that, you can lock down the WordPress admin login with some .htaccess rules to prevent unauthorized login attempts. Read More >
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Fix Alt Text: A WordPress Plugin Guide and Review
If you use a screen reader, another accessibility device, or just read our recent article on why alt text matters, you already know how important it is to add correctly formatted and contextually appropriate alt text to your page’s images. It’s one thing to do this sort of media housekeeping with new posts — but Read More >
Optimize Accessibility with the Zeno Font Resizer Plugin
The Zeno Font Resizer plugin recently made our list of great free accessibility plugins, so I decided to try it out. We’d featured it already, and I was hoping to find a lighter-weight option for text resizing. Comprehensive, all-in-one plugins like One Click Accessibility include text sizing features, but the all-in-one approach isn’t always the Read More >
How to Remove Tags from WordPress
The longer your blog exists and the more posts you continue to add to your blog, the more tags you may end up having in your Tags list. There may be situations where you need to remove tags that no longer need to be on your site. The following tutorial shows how to delete tags. Read More >
Website Lifespan: Tips for Keeping Your Website Useful Long-Term
Back when I was working as one of InMotion Hosting’s Support Agents, one of my most memorable moments assisting a customer involved a webpage designed and maintained using Microsoft FrontPage. Now, Microsoft FrontPage had been discontinued about fifteen years before I found myself helping out. Despite this, the website still did everything it needed to Read More >
One Click Accessibility WordPress Plugin
One Click Accessibility is one of the most popular free accessibility plugins available for the WordPress platform. With over 90,000 active installations, I think the plugin’s popularity stems from its excellent default settings. Installing One Click isn’t going to bring your site up to WCAG standards in a matter of seconds, but it is going Read More >
Accessible Color Palettes: Choosing Accessible Colors
Color is a fundamental component of accessible site design. You’ll need to make sure to contrast your text with background, stay mindful of color-blind viewers, and test your site’s appearance under a variety of conditions. Below we’ll cover some of the fundamentals of accessible color palettes so you can keep your site readable. Color Contrast: Read More >
Alt Text Best Practices: Write Great Alt Text
Alt Text is an essential web accessibility affordance for anyone using a screen reader. If you want your site to be accessible as defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guides (WCAG), then you need to consistently and appropriately use alt text. Used correctly, alt text can even improve your site’s SEO. Read on for an Read More >
Dedicated Server RAM Guide
If you know that you need the power, control, and customization of a Dedicated Server, then you will need to choose a plan — and hardware — appropriate to your business. One of the biggest difference between our Dedicated Server plans is how much RAM (Random Access Memory) is available. Knowing how much RAM you Read More >
ecbiz213 Failure and Recovery
At 12:30 PM (EST) on Monday, December 13th, 2021, ecbiz213 suffered a hardware failure associated with the hard drives on the server. Despite the best efforts of our team, the RAID array has been deemed unrecoverable. We are working to move all affected accounts to new hardware as quickly as possible. Latest Updates 12/13/21 — Read More >