Time to Update your WordPress Site

WP updateOn September 11, 2013, WordPress 3.6.1, a maintenance and security update, was released to the public. It fixed 13 bugs in version 3.6, which was a very smooth major release. You can do the update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

For more information on this release, see the release notes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1.

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What is a domain name and how does it relate to a web hosting service?

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The easiest way to picture it is to think of web hosting as your home and the domain name is the address. All websites must have both a domain name and a web hosting account in order to be visible on the web. A domain name as an easy-to-read name tag which people use to visit and view a specific website.

Websites are usually accessed by either typing in a uniform resource locator (URL) which contains the domain name of a website or by typing in an internet protocol (IP) address associated with a web hosting account . For example, a website’s domain name is in alphabetical form (www.mywebsite.com) while an IP address is in numerical form (12.34.567.89).

Domain names can be purchased anywhere and for a variety of prices, however a domain name registrar is not always the best web hosting provider.

What web hosts do you recommend?

Please see our resources page for a list of web hosting companies that we recommend.