What is a WordPress Plugin? (And What Are They For?)

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | October 25, 2021

This article is part of a multi-part series. We recommend starting from the beginning to get the most comprehensive overview of WordPress. To do so, click here. Welcome back to another installment of How to Build With WordPress. In this series, we are taking a dive into the many parts of the machine that IS the…

What is a WordPress Theme? (And How to Pick One)

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | October 19, 2021

If you’ve used WordPress before, you know that there are many parts to the machine that IS the WordPress engine. Between the different taxonomies like Posts and Pages to the Permalink Configurations, Plugins, and Themes you can use, sometimes it gets difficult to tell what part of the website is what and where you should…

What is Domain ID Protection?

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | September 24, 2021

Domain ID protection (also known as WHOIS privacy) hides your personal or company contact information from the publicly accessible WHOIS database. When you registered a domain you are required to provide accurate contact details which must be verified. This is in accordance with regulations set forth by ICANN. These contact details are then stored in…

How Does Web Design Affect SEO?

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | September 10, 2021

Search Engine Optimization is a topic that garners quite a bit of attention, especially after the recent push to E-Commerce during the 2020-2021 pandemic in the United States. Although it gets quite a bit of attention, it’s difficult for most people to actually describe what SEO is or does for a website. So how are…

What Is A Premium Domain?

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | September 9, 2021

Premium domain names are short, catchy, or memorable names that are already registered to a person, entity or organization. A good example of this would be a city or municipality. The cost of a premium domain can range from as low as $100 to as high as $750,000+ in some cases, depending on the current…

cPanel vs. Kajabi

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | February 3, 2021

Building your website on the internet can be a fun and exhilarating process, especially when you finally get to see your website online and customers flowing in. The process though, to get things set up can sometimes be confusing – especially if you don’t know what you need. We’ve recently had a large influx of…

Why Do Hosting Providers Have Such Different Pricing?

By Ryan T. M. Reiffenberger | January 7, 2021

Web hosting is an important part of any website process and is the first step to getting any site online. So why is there such a variation in pricing between different providers? To understand why the ranges seem so large, and how companies can get away with charging pennies for hosting, we have to dive…