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Cal Evans

PHP Evangelist

One of the most admired people in the PHP community, who has dedicated more than 16 years to building the amazing PHP community and mentoring the next generation of developers. We are extremely honored that he is a very special friend of SiteGround too.

Help! My site has been hacked!

It is every website owner’s nightmare. You wake up from a blissful night of sleep, pour…

  • Oct 31, 2022
  • 8 min read

How to Leverage Browser Caching in WordPress to Optimize Page Load Time

Optimizing a website for speed is a never ending quest. There is always something you can…

  • Jun 30, 2022
  • 6 min read

How And When To Use Coupons On Your Site For An Effective Marketing Strategy

Building an e-commerce site doesn’t mean that it will be successful. The site is only 1/2…

  • Jun 07, 2022
  • 7 min read

How To Accept Payments Online: 5 Steps And Best Payment Processing Providers

If you are going to sell things online then one of your first steps has to…

  • May 30, 2022
  • 6 min read

Building an eCommerce Website: You're 8 Steps Away From a Successful Online Store

These days, if you don’t have an eCommerce website, then you are probably thinking about it.…

  • May 03, 2022
  • 14 min read

The Difference Between Brotli And Gzip Compression Algorithms To Speed Up Your Site

Are you looking for free ways to make your website faster? One way that every website…

  • Feb 09, 2022
  • 6 min read

The Best WordPress Themes - Default, Free and Paid

Themes have come a long way in WordPress. For those new to WordPress, a WordPress theme…

  • Jan 12, 2022
  • 10 min read

How to Change Fonts in WordPress to Make Your Site Unique

The days of a web ruled by white pages, black text, and blue links are fading…

  • Dec 16, 2021
  • 6 min read

WordPress Database Cleanup: Steps and Plugins To Keep Your Site Unpolluted and Fast

I’ve been managing (and mis-managing) SQL databases for almost 37 years now. SQL was the second…

  • Aug 26, 2021
  • 7 min read

WordPress Security Plugins That Are a MUST to Keep Hackers Away

Making your website secure is not a one-time thing. It’s not a switch you can flip…

  • Jul 27, 2021
  • 5 min read

What is XMLRPC and How This WordPress' Vestigial Tail Threatens Your Website Security

In the root directory of every WordPress site is a file, xmlrpc.php that actually predates WordPress…

  • Jul 01, 2021
  • 3 min read

What Is The Principle of Least Privilege in WordPress

Computer programmers like to give things big names. This is how we end up with something…

  • Sep 25, 2020
  • 3 min read