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Anyone who enters the world of website creation and maintenance will very soon find themselves faced with the choice of which Content Management System to use for the website. For many webmasters this choice will fall on WordPress but there are a whole bunch of other choices you can make for this as well. In this article we are going to look at the other options you have. And which Content Management System to choose for your next project. Let's get started! The market share of Content Management

Updating the software and underlying technology is an essential part of any healthy website. PHP version 7.4 will no longer be supported with security updates as of November 2022 and will therefore go the way of the dodo. It is therefore advisable to upgrade to the newer PHP versions available before then. We'll explain exactly how this works and how you can make your website fit for the newer PHP versions in this blog post. PHP is one of the most widely used code languages on the Internet although

In the world of email applications there are a few established names: Outlook and Thunderbird have been around for a long time. However Thunderbird has yet to enter the mobile market which Microsoft has been serving for some time with its Mobile Microsoft Outlook app. In updating our Thunderbird article in the knowledge base I saw that K9 is now being added to the Thunderbird community to further develop it as a mobile app for Thunderbird on Android. An interesting development then. Let's explore

Every year Google has several updates to its search engine however in May they have a major core update that can always shake things up. Has your website noticed a difference in ranking over the last few weeks? If so this should have normalized by now. Let's take a look at what this Google Core update has brought with it. Google updates can shake things up for a lot of websites with legendary updates like Penguin in 2012 turning entire industries upside down. Google is always fine-tuning their

From time to time a new search engine comes along because Google is not the only way to search the Internet. There are some veterans like Bing and now DuckDuckGo. And newer ones like Brave Search and a few other alternatives. However many of the new search engines have also been discontinued. Mainly for the reason that Google has a huge market share. This makes it difficult to convince users to switch. Yep is similar to Brave Search in many ways. In this blog post we will introduce you to this

Databases are a crucial part of your website the database stores your texts website content and structure and many other important data such as customer data. With a website it is therefore very important to find the best solution for this. With the launch of MariaDB already some time ago it is now also possible to start working with a MariaDB for your next WordPress website. In this blog post let's take a look at what the speed difference is between the two different databases. Everyone knows

WordPress does not stand still like almost every software with this completely new version update comes another bunch of improvements with it and a lot of open issues are picked up and hopefully taken care of. Let's take a look at what's new and improved in this blog post! Every major update to WordPress is named after a person or event this time the major release is named after a Jazz musician named Arturo O'Farrill. 6.0 brings with it more than 500 improvements and bug fixes so there is a lot

To expand a business to other countries you may need to do quite a few tasks and check things out. However one of the first steps is to register a domain name for that country and set up your website to best suit the target audience. We'll cover that in this blog post so let's get started! Once your business has been up and running for a while you'll need to start looking for new markets. The most logical moves for many Dutch businesses are Germany and Belgium. However these markets both have a

As a hosting partner we too have become closely associated with WordPress over the years what the customer asks for is of course important to support. WordPress is the choice for most businesses and individuals because it is easy to use. Content can simply be written in a visual way and the wide range of both free and paid themes means that the layout of a website can be arranged at the touch of a button. Like any market once in a while things change. In this blog post let's look at why WordPress