Bluehost review: A solid first home for WordPress if you budget for year four
The price on Bluehost’s plan page says $3.99 a month. The smaller print says you pay for 36 months up front, and that when those three years end, the same …
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Jetpack narrows paid subscriptions with new Pro plan
Jetpack has added Pro to its paid subscription lineup and narrowed new bundle sales to two paid plans: Pro and Complete. The change was announced with Jetpack 16.4, released November …
WordPress Studio redesign puts the AI agent at the center
WordPress.com has announced a redesigned WordPress Studio workspace that moves the app’s AI agent into the main building flow, placing chat beside a live preview of the site being built. …
HubSpot sets migration deadlines for legacy serverless functions and older workflow runtimes
HubSpot is sunsetting Design Manager serverless functions and restricting Node.js 20 and earlier for workflow custom code actions, according to a developer changelog announced Nov. 3, 2026 and last updated …
PHP Foundation says it has one full-time employee as security demands grow
The PHP Foundation’s staffing has become part of the story around last week’s PHP security emergency. Reuters reported on October 23 that Executive Director Elizabeth Barron said the nonprofit has …
Why AI coding agents may not speed up software delivery yet
AI coding agents are generating more code, according to a new Harvard working paper. The paper, by Harvard researchers Fiona Chen and James Stratton, uses aggregated Jellyfish engineering data covering …
WordPress 7.1.3 fixes seven security issues, including comment-related flaws
WordPress 7.1.3 was released on October 6, 2026, with seven security fixes and four bug fixes, making it the second core security update in two weeks after WordPress 7.1.2 addressed …
Ninja Forms flaw exploited to plant hidden WordPress admins
Attackers are exploiting a stored cross-site scripting flaw in Ninja Forms, a WordPress form plugin with more than 500,000 active installations, as part of a campaign that can create hidden …
Shopify Canvas brings AI store design to Sidekick, with limits at launch
Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-assisted storefront design surface that brings Sidekick into the theme-building workflow. In its Oct. 1, 2026, announcement, Shopify said Canvas was rolling out to …
Shopify lets browser AI agents finish checkout with buyer approval
Shopify has moved browser-based AI shopping agents closer to completing purchases on behalf of buyers, adding checkout support to its WebMCP tools on September 28, 2026. According to Shopify’s developer …
WordPress.com’s WordPress Agent can now manage plugins from chat
WordPress.com has expanded the WordPress Agent from content and design assistance into plugin management, letting site owners ask the built-in AI agent to activate, update and install plugins directly from …
Anthropic opens Claude plugin and MCP connector submissions to paid-plan developers
Anthropic has opened a developer portal for submitting Claude plugins and Model Context Protocol connectors to the Claude directory, according to its September 25, 2026 announcement. According to Anthropic, plugins …
Attackers targeted a critical WordPress flaw on patch day
A critical WordPress Core vulnerability was patched on September 22, 2026, and attackers began targeting it the same day, according to Patchstack telemetry. WordPress.org’s release documentation says WordPress 7.1.2 was …
GitLab CVSS 10 flaw is under active exploitation
A maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability is now an active exploitation concern for organizations running self-managed GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-85706, was patched by GitLab …
How to password protect a website without creating bigger problems
Passwording a website sounds simple until you have to choose how to do it. A WordPress page password, a staging-site password, a server-level login, and a full membership system all …
Cloudflare’s new AI crawler controls put SEO and content protection in the same dashboard
Cloudflare’s September 15, 2026 AI crawler changes are not just a security update. They affect who can fetch your pages, how AI training bots are handled, and whether your content …
Faster pages and better leads begin with this website performance testing checklist
A slow website doesn’t always look broken. It just makes people wait long enough to doubt the click, abandon the cart, skip the form, or choose another result. That’s why …
How to create a secure website people can trust
A secure website is not just a website with a padlock in the browser. The padlock matters, but it only proves the connection is encrypted. It does not prove your …
Web security best practices: the 2026 checklist for safer sites
Web security best practices are not only for banks, SaaS companies, and enterprise IT teams. They apply to every site that collects form submissions, uses WordPress plugins, connects to third-party …
Website security checklist: 21 checks to audit your site
Use this website security checklist to audit your site for common weaknesses. Mark each item Pass, Fix, or N/A, then use the sections below to investigate anything that needs attention. …
Website health checklist: 30 things to check on your website
A website can look perfectly fine and still have problems underneath. Pages can load slowly. Search engines may struggle to crawl important content. Security settings can be weak. Forms can …
The WordPress Security Gap That Quietly Kills Growth
A WordPress site can look normal on the surface while quietly working against the growth you’re trying to build. The homepage loads. The blog looks fine. The contact form still …
cPanel vs WordPress Dashboard: What’s the Difference?
cPanel and the WordPress dashboard can both affect your website, but they do different jobs. cPanel manages the hosting environment. WordPress manages the website content and WordPress settings. If you …
How to Access cPanel in Tech Help Canada Hosting
cPanel is the hosting control panel used with eligible Tech Help Canada Hosting plans. You use it for hosting-level tasks such as file management, databases, domains, PHP settings, backups, and …
How to Buy Web Hosting Through Tech Help Canada
Buying web hosting is not just a checkout task. You are choosing the place where your website will run, the tools you will use to manage it, and the upgrade …
How to Cancel or Turn Off Auto-Renew for Hosting Products
Turning off auto-renew stops a product from renewing at the next billing date. It does not always remove the product immediately. In many cases, you can keep using the product …
How to Check Your Hosting Plan Details
Your hosting plan details tell you what product you have, which domain it is connected to, when it renews, and what management tools are available. Checking those details can help …
How to Find Your Tech Help Canada Hosting Products
Your Tech Help Canada Hosting products may include domains, hosting, WordPress, SSL, Website Builder, Microsoft 365, website security, backups, or other tools. Finding the right product matters because each one …
How to Renew Your Domain or Hosting Plan
Renewing a domain or hosting plan keeps the service active for another term. For a small business, renewals are not just billing tasks. An expired domain can make your website …
How to Sign In to Your Tech Help Canada Hosting Account
You sign in to your Tech Help Canada Hosting account when you need to manage domains, hosting, WordPress, SSL, business email products, renewals, billing, or other hosting-related products. Use the …
What Is cPanel, And When Should You Use It?
cPanel is a hosting control panel. It gives you a browser-based way to manage technical parts of a website, such as files, databases, domains, PHP settings, backups, and some server …
How Long Does DNS Propagation Take?
DNS propagation is the time it takes for DNS changes to update across networks. Some changes appear within minutes, while others can take longer. During propagation, different people may see …
How to Change Nameservers Without Breaking Your Website
Changing nameservers moves DNS management for a domain from one system to another. That can be useful during a website move, DNS service change, or hosting setup, but it can …
How to Connect a Domain Bought Somewhere Else to Your Hosting
You can use a domain bought from one company with hosting from another. The domain registration and website hosting do not have to be in the same account. To connect …
How to Connect a Domain to Your Website
Connecting a domain to your website means making sure visitors who type your domain land on the correct site. The connection usually happens through DNS, website builder settings, hosting settings, …
How to Point a Domain to Your Hosting Plan
Pointing a domain to your hosting plan tells visitors where your website is stored. The domain remains the address, and the hosting plan serves the website. This task usually involves …
Nameservers vs DNS Records: What’s the Difference?
Nameservers and DNS records both help your domain send people and services to the right place. The difference is that nameservers decide where DNS is managed, while DNS records give …
What Are Nameservers?
Nameservers tell the internet where your domain’s DNS records are managed. If your domain is the address people type, nameservers point to the place that holds the instructions for that …
What Is a CNAME Record?
A CNAME record is a DNS record that points one hostname to another hostname. It is often used for www, subdomains, website builders, email tools, and third-party services. CNAME stands …
What Is a TXT Record?
A TXT record is a DNS record that stores text. It does not usually send website visitors anywhere. Instead, it is often used to prove domain ownership, verify services, or …
What Is an A Record?
An A record is a DNS record that points a domain or subdomain to an IPv4 address. It is one of the most common records used to connect a domain …
Why Your Domain Works Without WWW But Not With WWW
Your domain can work without www but fail with www because those are two different hostnames. They may look like the same website to visitors, but DNS can treat them …
Why Your Website Isn’t Showing After Changing DNS
If your website is not showing after a DNS change, the problem may be timing, a missing record, the wrong DNS provider, SSL, hosting setup, or browser cache. The best …
Essential WordPress Settings to Check Before Launching
Before launching a WordPress website, review the settings that affect how visitors, search engines, forms, users, and browsers experience the site. Small settings can create big launch problems if they …
How to Choose a WordPress Theme for a Small Business Website
A WordPress theme controls much of your site’s layout, templates, styling options, and editing experience. The right theme helps you build the site your business needs without adding unnecessary weight …
How to Install WordPress on Your Hosting Plan
Installing WordPress gives your hosting plan the website software it needs to create pages, posts, menus, forms, and other site features. The exact installation path depends on your hosting product. …
How to Install WordPress Plugins Without Slowing Down Your Website
WordPress plugins add features to your site, but every plugin adds code, settings, and maintenance responsibility. A few well-chosen plugins can be helpful. Too many plugins, or the wrong plugins, …
How to Log In to Your WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress dashboard is where you edit pages, publish posts, manage media, update plugins, adjust settings, and control users for a WordPress website. Your WordPress login is not always the …
What to Do After Installing WordPress
After WordPress is installed, the site is not automatically ready to launch. You still need to check the basic settings, security habits, theme, plugins, pages, forms, backups, SSL, and search …
Why You Can’t Log In to WordPress
WordPress login problems can come from a wrong password, the wrong login URL, browser cookies, security tools, user permissions, email delivery, plugin conflicts, or a domain pointing to the wrong …
WordPress Homepage Not Updating? Here’s What to Check
If your WordPress homepage is not updating, the problem is usually caching, the wrong homepage setting, the wrong page being edited, a page builder template, browser cache, or a plugin …