NerdPress® https://www.nerdpress.net/ Let us take good care of your WordPress site. Tue, 26 May 2026 18:42:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.nerdpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg NerdPress® https://www.nerdpress.net/ 32 32 Why WordPress updates break websites — and how to avoid it https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/why-wordpress-updates-break-websites/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/why-wordpress-updates-break-websites/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 18:25:16 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=118570 WordPress updates break sites for a handful of predictable reasons. After more than a decade managing updates across hundreds of sites, here's what we've learned about why it happens.

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/mitigated-in-minutes/feed/ 0 Making Your Site Safer with HSTS https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/making-your-site-safer-with-hsts/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/making-your-site-safer-with-hsts/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:50:25 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=114181 Learn what HSTS is, why it matters for WordPress security, and how NerdPress uses it to force HTTPS and reduce man-in-the-middle risk.

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]]> We’re Officially a Certified B Corp! Here’s Why That Matters—for You and for Us https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/certified-b-corp/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/certified-b-corp/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=110752 NerdPress is now a Certified B Corporation™! This achievement reflects our deep commitment to using our business as a force for good—for our clients, our team, our community, and the planet.

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/certified-b-corp/feed/ 0 How to transfer your domain registration to Cloudflare https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-domain-registration-to-cloudflare/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-domain-registration-to-cloudflare/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:02:05 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=109456 To claim and use a domain name for your website online, you have to register the domain and pay the applicable fees to one of the many domain registrar services available. Some examples of domain registrars include: As with all businesses, some registrars are better than others. Having worked with a wide variety of domain…

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-domain-registration-to-cloudflare/feed/ 0 How to transfer your DNS management to Cloudflare https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-dns-management-to-cloudflare/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-dns-management-to-cloudflare/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:01:19 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=109509 Your DNS records connect your domain to your website, where it lives on a server hosted by your web host. They also help connect your email and can be used to verify accounts like Google Analytics and Pinterest. DNS Records can be managed through your domain registrar or through a third-party system like Cloudflare. (Cloudflare…

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-transfer-your-dns-management-to-cloudflare/feed/ 0 How to Disable Cloudflare Speed Brain https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/disable-cloudflare-smart-brain/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/disable-cloudflare-smart-brain/#respond Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:15:44 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=107644 Cloudflare recently rolled out a beta feature called “Speed Brain“. This feature is meant to speed the loading of navigation links up, but Speed Brain may potentially cause issues with WordPress plugins disappearing on sites during updates. This feature was enabled by default on certain tiers of Cloudflare including free accounts. The best way to…

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/disable-cloudflare-smart-brain/feed/ 0 NerdPress Acquires Smart Custom 404 Page https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/announcing-404-page/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/announcing-404-page/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:52:20 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=107206 We’ve acquired the Smart Custom 404 Page plugin! This lightweight yet incredibly useful plugin lets you set any regular WordPress page to be displayed when someone visits a broken URL on your site (getting a “404 Not Found” response). We’ve been recommending this plugin for many years, specifically because it doesn’t issue any redirects. WordPress…

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]]> https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/announcing-404-page/feed/ 5 8 Things You Can Do to Improve INP Right Now https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-improve-inp/ https://www.nerdpress.net/blog/how-to-improve-inp/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:37:12 +0000 https://www.nerdpress.net/?p=104313 The bigger and more complicated your site's pages are, the more processing a visitor's device has to do, slowing things down and increasing your site's INP score.

Here are eight tweaks you can make to help improve INP right now.

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