WordPress Cleanup Checklist

WordPress Cleanup Checklist

Whether you’re a seasoned blogger or just getting your site off the ground and going crazy with uploads and creating content, it’s always a good idea to keep your WordPress site storage in check. “But I have unlimited disk space!” That is probably not the 

Mindful WordPress Security Practices

Mindful WordPress Security Practices

Secure WordPress Practices With WordPress, one of the easiest tasks to complete is to harden your site but it’s one of the most overlooked tasks! In this day in age with data breaches and hacks running rampant, it’s never too late to implement security practices 

BCH Managed WP Services FAQ

BCH Managed WP Services FAQ

If you were part of our beta testing this past summer, you already know the wonders that is our BCH Managed WP Service. Let us help you manage those mundane WordPress tasks for you! From offsite backup management to extra security scans, let us worry 

PHP 7 and why you should be using it

PHP 7 and why you should be using it

New and Improved PHP The long-awaited next version of PHP, version 7.0, was released at the end of 2015 and has been since receiving regular updates. With this new version of PHP, amazing speed and new features came along with it. Because it was released 

Big Changes Afoot!

Big Changes Afoot!

Hello, Black Chicken Host Family! Holy cow, folks – we’ve been working on some supercool things behind the scenes, and we’ve been gradually rolling them out over the past two months. Now that we’ve gotten everything running smoothly, I’m ready to tell everyone what we’ve 

Change in Our Terms of Service

Change in Our Terms of Service

The nature of technology is growth and change – what’s super-hot and super-fast one minute is obsolete and out-of-date the next. It’s a perpetual learning curve for people who want to stay on the latest and greatest hardware or software platforms, and a constant source 

How to make a Menu out of your Categories in WordPress

How to make a Menu out of your Categories in WordPress

WordPress is a very popular website platform used by many of our customers at BCH. A common request is adding a menu item that quickly pulls all of the posts that are related to a single subject. The easiest way to do this is with 

Analytics Boot Camp Day 4: Technology

Analytics Boot Camp Day 4: Technology

Howdy, Boot Camp Attendees – Get this – we’re almost halfway through the Standard Reporting tab! Soon, you’ll be a total pro at Google Analytics (GA.) Tonight’s installment covers the Technology, Social, and Mobile menus, which we find under Standard Reporting, Audience.

Boot Camp – Understanding Google Analytics

Well hello there, Google Analytics Boot Campees! When you look at your Google Analytics Dashboard, does your heart sink, your eyes glaze over, your brain feel a little overwhelmed? We completely understand. There is a metric honkload of information presented, and not always in particularly 

Quick Image Insertion Tutorial

Quick Image Insertion Tutorial

This is a quick tutorial for inserting images into WordPress 3.3.1. The functionality to insert an image shifted from the toolbar itself to a hard-to-notice button in the top left corner of the post editing screen, as shown here, just above the beige “Add Media”