Your WordPress website needs regular updates and maintenance. And sometimes, when you’re fixing your site, it results in downtime. In situations like this, you can switch on maintenance mode, which displays a temporary page to your site visitors, letting them know that it’s being worked upon and is not broken.
Running your ecommerce business on a custom-built platform can make scaling with flexibility and control a real challenge. At some point, your current setup may start to limit growth — and that’s when it’s time to consider a change. If you’re ready to explore other options for scalability, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re…
Did you know “the cost of running your website is not just the price that you pay for web hosting, but rather it is the harm that it causes to the very environment in which we live?” Scared right? Knowing that the urge to be online is putting the environment in danger, can be a…
Web development is an ever-evolving industry. That means we’re constantly adapting to what’s new, all while maintaining quality and efficiency. No sooner are we comfortable with something than it changes on us. This applies to our workflow just as much as it does to other parts of our business. The way we build websites must…
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV) and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have issued a joint advisory warning of a malicious cyber campaign undertaken by a likely state-sponsored threat actor that involves carrying out phishing attacks over the Signal messaging app. “The focus is on…
Sometimes working on a Drupal contributed module requires making changes to the module’s composer.json so that you can update a dependency. Have you run into this before? You’re working on a Drupal contrib module, and that module has a dependency on either another module or an external Composer package. That dependency is expressed in the…
Now that Ahrefs users can track AI visibility for the exact queries they care about, many people are wondering which terms they should monitor. After all, conversing with AI is unlike how we would traditionally search, since requests can be far more detailed, or occur in the middle of longer conversations. AI responses are also…
Square just opened the Bitcoin floodgates. Here’s why it matters for your store. In November 2025, something quietly remarkable happened: Square made Bitcoin payments available to eligible US merchants. Your neighborhood coffee shop can now accept Bitcoin as easily as they swipe your credit card. Payments are confirmed in seconds via the Lightning Network. There…
Is your website still running slowly even after you’ve an expensive hosting service? Working on a computer that crashes again and again can be very frustrating. The problem might be with your operating system, not the server. Because the outdated OS lacks new features, creates laggy performance and an unresponsive system. So the only solution…
Let’s face it, today’s job market is more challenging than ever. We work in a competitive global landscape, and standing out from the crowd can be incredibly difficult! That’s where a professional and creative resume comes in. But hiring managers will see hundreds of resumes. What can you do to get yours noticed? Resume templates…
A Farsi-speaking threat actor aligned with Iranian state interests is suspected to be behind a new campaign targeting non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in documenting recent human rights abuses. The activity, observed by HarfangLab in January 2026, has been codenamed RedKitten. It’s said to coincide with the nationwide unrest in Iran that began towards the…
We recently completed a new set of tutorials covering the Drupal Recipe API. My interest in Drupal recipes began while I was working on documentation for the Drupal CMS User Guide, which relies heavily on recipes to provide its features. Drupal CMS is just Drupal core plus a curated set of contributed modules, preconfigured to…
How much traffic do AI Overviews drive? How much awareness do they create for your brand? And how can you track that over time? These questions aren’t easy to answer—especially since Google keeps AI Overview data under lock and key. But, if you keep reading, you might just find out… Ahrefs Web Analytics, our GA4 alternative. The source…
Behind every WooCommerce store is software written in PHP. You don’t need to know how it works, but keeping it up to date is one of the simplest things you can do to keep your store fast, secure, and running smoothly. Think of PHP like the engine in a car. Newer engines are more fuel-efficient…
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Working solo is one of the benefits of being a freelance web designer. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or tracking every mouse click. That’s one reason why many of us choose this career path. On the other hand, no one has your back when things go wrong. There are no team…
A new multi-stage phishing campaign has been observed targeting users in Russia with ransomware and a remote access trojan called Amnesia RAT. “The attack begins with social engineering lures delivered via business-themed documents crafted to appear routine and benign,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said in a technical breakdown published this week. “These documents…
In 2024 I became a certified coach to round out the informal coaching that I’ve been providing for many years. I’ve used that training to support a variety of people in several different volunteer communities, including folks who attended our Leadership Training for Open Source course last year. In an effort to support the Drupal…
Most advice on ranking in AI Overviews is speculative, so we’ve analyzed millions of AI Overview responses, reviewed third-party research, and studied Google’s guidance to find out what actually works. Our own study shows that AI Overviews have caused click-through rate drops of 34.5%, with new research from Seer Interactive reporting drops as high as…
