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- The Airtable Acquisition Raises a Bigger Question: Do You Really Own the Software Your Business Runs On?
- How to Use Google Search Console’s New Generative AI Data to Improve Your SEO
- How to Update the Same Website Content on Multiple Pages at Once
- Discovered vs. Crawled Not Indexed in Google Search Console: What’s the Difference and How to Fix Each
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- Do Professional Writers Still Need SEO in the Age of AI?
- Search Engine First vs. People First Content: Why Generic FAQ Dumps Harm Your SEO
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- Paying $10,000 a Month for SEO? Here’s How to Tell If You’re Getting Your Money’s Worth
- Introducing New WordPress Magazine Layouts in UltimateWB 9 (With Early Access)
- How to Fix the WordPress “Critical Error” on the Widgets Page After a PHP Upgrade
- The Hidden Risk of SaaS Website Builders: Lessons from the Recent Wix Outage
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Thinking About Switching From WordPress? What Should You Consider Before You Move?
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I'm thinking about switching from WordPress to another platform.
It's not a complicated website, but over the years, I've had to add many plugins, for SEO, security, backups, forms, page building, etc. It feels like my website is living in an old house, and we're just waiting for the roof to leak, or something to break. I've been googling for discussions about migrating away from WordPress and found UltimateWB. Most other discussions I've found are the opposite, and
Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders
Tagged 301 redirects, AI website builder, cpanel, css, custom url, customizable, drag-and-drop alternative, drag-and-drop website builder, duda, easy maintenance, flexible, htaccess, html, javascript, migrating website, ownership, page history tool, redirects, responsive app, switching website builders, third-party plugins, web hosting choice, Wix, WordPress, wordpress alternative, WYSIWYG
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The Airtable Acquisition Raises a Bigger Question: Do You Really Own the Software Your Business Runs On?
When software becomes deeply embedded in a business, it can stop feeling like software.
It becomes infrastructure.
Your data is there. Your workflows are there. Your employees know how to use it. Your automations run in the background. Your business processes have gradually been shaped around it.
Then the company behind the software gets acquired.
Suddenly, questions that once seemed theoretical become very practical:
What happens to the pricing?
What happens to the features you depend on?
What happens to
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Posted in Technology in the News
Tagged acquisition, airtable, bending spoons, csv export, culture, database, database access, Evernote, export data, Filmic, hosted platform, hosted platforms vs self-hosted, infrastructure, Meetup, mission, mysql, ownership, PostgreSQL, saas, structured data, tech industry, vimeo, WeTransfer, WordPress
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How to Update the Same Website Content on Multiple Pages at Once
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Question: “I’m currently using Squarespace and am so tired of all the limitations. I have a section that needs to be the same on several pages. It is a mix of text/images. I just want to be able to update this section once and have it automatically updated on every other page that I have it on.
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Posted in Ask David!, Compare Website Builders
Tagged ad(d)s app, adds manager, centralized management, collection pages, embed code, flexibility, footers, global sections, HTML Ad(d)s app, html adds, placeholder text, save time, side sections, squarespace, squarespace alternative, styles manager, summary blocks, synced patterns, webflow, wix studio, WordPress
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Introducing New WordPress Magazine Layouts in UltimateWB 9 (With Early Access)
We are excited to announce two brand-new, high-performance modern layouts for our integrated WordPress blog system coming natively to UltimateWB 9: the UWB Magazine Layout and the UWB Magazine Hero Layout!
UltimateWB gives you total freedom in how you publish content. Whether you prefer using our native Articles app, building visual collections with the Scrapbooks app, or leveraging our seamlessly integrated WordPress blog option, you have full control over your site's
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress Customization
Tagged algorithm, articles app, bloat, css, engaging content, featured post, integrated blog, latest posts, magazine homepage, magazine layout, most viewed, popular, popular content, scrapbooks app, third-party plugins, uwb magazine hero layout, uwb magazine layout, WordPress, WordPress page builders, wordpress reading settings
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The Latest WordPress Core Exploit (wp2shell) and Why Forced Updates Break Websites
One of the biggest promises of WordPress is automatic security updates. When a critical vulnerability is discovered, millions of sites can be patched automatically without site owners having to lift a finger.
But when those background updates unexpectedly break active websites, that convenience quickly becomes a liability.
That is exactly what unfolded following the recently disclosed wp2shell vulnerability chain.
While issuing rapid patches was the right decision from a security standpoint, the automated push inevitably triggered unexpected compatibility crashes, fatal
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Posted in Compare Website Builders, Website Security
Tagged Allowed memory size exhausted, automatic security updates, broken wordpress website, cache, cdn, fatal errors, forced updates, max_execution_time, memory_limit, mysql, php, plugin, sql, sql injection, third-party plugins, WordPress, wordpress bugs, wordpress core, wordpress core exploit, wordpress core vulnerability, wordpress hacked, WordPress REST API, wordpress vulnerabilities, wp2shell
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How to Safely Merge Categories in WordPress Using PHP (Free Script)
As a WordPress site grows, category structures can easily become bloated, redundant, or outdated. Reorganizing your taxonomy manually through the WordPress admin dashboard works fine for a handful of posts, but if you need to merge hundreds - or thousands - of articles from one category into another, doing it manually is a slow, tedious chore.
While plugins exist for taxonomy management, adding extra
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As a web developer, there is a distinct type of panic that sets in when your phone rings and a client says: "I was trying to update the text on the homepage, and... I think I broke something."
You open the site, and sure enough, the layout you meticulously optimized for speed, design, and user experience is completely skewed.
On many website
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We recently received an excellent question from a reader who is trying to cut through the marketing noise to choose the right website platform:
“Ask David!” question: "I am researching which website builder I should use and found UltimateWB. Can you tell me what you think is the biggest drawback of Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, and WordPress?"
If you only read the homepages of the major website builders, everything looks flawless. They all promise fast, beautiful, and easy-to-build sites.
But as
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Tagged absolute positioning, absolute positioning vs responsive design, bloat, css, fast website, high maintenance, html, learning curve, open-source, php, plugin, redesign website, responsive, saas, security risks, slow website, squarespace, third-party plugins, webflow, Wix, WordPress
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How to Fix Crawl Budget Waste and “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” in Google Search Console
If you've opened the Google Search Console (GSC) Page Indexing report recently and discovered thousands of URLs stuck in the "Crawled – currently not indexed" status, it's easy to assume something is wrong with your content.
Is the content too thin? Is Google penalizing your site? Did an algorithm update hurt your rankings?
In many cases, the answer is much less dramatic: your
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Posted in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Tagged crawl budget, crawl trap, crawled - currently not indexed, crawled not indexed, google algorithm, Google Search Console, google search engine ranking, Googlebot, gsc, robots.txt, rss feed, search engine crawl, search engine optimization, search parameter, seo, thin content, thin pages, wasted crawl budget, WordPress
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The Hidden Cost of WordPress Security: Why Security Plugins Aren’t the Whole Answer
If you run a website, you know that security isn’t optional. For millions of WordPress users, the immediate reaction to securing a site is to install a security plugin. It’s practically a rite of passage.
But there is a conversation that many developers and web hosts avoid having until it's too late: the real cost of application-level security.
We aren't just talking about subscription fees. We're talking about the hidden performance tax, the administrative burden of constant updates, and the
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Posted in Compare Website Builders, Website Security
Tagged abandoned plugins, backdoor, backups, compatibility issues, cpu, CPU spikes, database, firewall, firewall rules, javascript, maintenance, malcar, malicious code, malware, performance tax, plugin, plugin compatibility issues, plugin vulnerabilities, RAM, security plugin, security stack, solid security, subscription fees, waf, web application firewall, website security, wordfence, WordPress, WordPress plugin vulnerabilities, wordpress security
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