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A slow website is more than just annoying for your customers – it can also lead to lost sales and lower search engine rankings in extreme situations. Kissmetrics reports that …

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Perhaps the primary reason for WordPress’ astonishing popularity is that it encapsulates so many features within such a user-friendly environment. Its functionality is not only limited to the WordPress ‘core’, …

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Does your company website take more than five seconds to load – or worse, a minute or more? Here’s the bad news: A slow WordPress website is bad for a …

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We’ve been hard at work revamping our company blog, and we’re excited to unveil the improved A2 Posting. Something we’ve always focused on is publishing content you care about while …

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As applications evolve, the architecture that enables them to work with a variety of different components must change. WordPress has traditionally been driven by a core structure, which is what …

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WordPress is in use by more than 60 million websites, making it the most popular site management system on the Internet. Part of the popularity is that it’s a free, open-source software with handy plugin features, templates, and a constant source of new features coming from its contributors. But traditionally it has run on PHP, which does have a bit more of a learning curve.

Do you ever experience a nice traffic bump due to a new blog post, but that traffic quickly fizzles out? Wouldn’t it be nice to get more of a permanent increase in traffic considering all the time you spend writing your content? If so, you should consider an evergreen content strategy. Evergreen content is always timely because it remains relevant and fresh for your readers. It does not become obsolete.

Version 4.4 of WordPress has launched! It’s nicknamed Clifford, not after the big red dog, but rather the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown. Many of the changes you’ll see in WordPress 4.4 are focused on making your site more responsive, allowing it to look attractive regardless of the device it is viewed on.

One of our main goals at A2 Hosting is to make sure you get the fastest page load speeds possible. WordPress is one of the software solutions in particular we help you speed up. Free SSDs, up to 20X faster Turbo Servers and our A2 Optimized setup featuring WordPress pre-configured with the best performance settings are a few ways we help you get peak performance.

It’s been just over a year since we launched A2 Optimized WordPress. The goal of A2 Optimized WordPress was to take the guesswork out of how to get the fastest page loads and most secure settings. It is safe to say A2 Optimized WordPress has been a success with optimized WordPress sites loading up to 6X faster than non-optimized sites. A2 Optimized WordPress is available on all of our Hosting packages and we have since have made it available to all WordPress users regardless of their host (with a few feature limitations).