At the end of 2018 support for our current version of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), which is version 5.6, will be ending. PHP is backend server processing language that is widely used by our websites to return web page content to people veiwing our site. We will need to upgrade to at least version 7.2 to maintain current vendor support and bug fixes.I have already encountered the need to be at version 7.x with one of my plugins and put in a SiteSupport ticket on it. The wizards behind the cur

I recently applied to be an affiliate marketer with the ShareaSale network, specifically wanting to market from Wayfair, as they have many of the products that fit my niches. I was automatically declined because I live in a Nexus state. Here is most of the declination letter I received:"Thank you for your interest in the Wayfair Affiliate Program. Unfortunately your application was declined. Your application could have been declined for many different reasons. The most common reasons we decli

If you're like me and struggling with slow website performance and puzzled by some of the recommendations by the Google PageSpeed Insights page, you might want to check out this service. It steps you through a multi-layer testing procedure so you can see how you rank in things like overall speed, image usage, specific scripts running and if we are consuming a lot of server resources. You can probably run these four tests by searching Google for them, but you can get some feedback from the vend

This could be a matter of semantics but I am trying to put some clarity around what constitutes a blog and what constitutes an article. In a recent feedback session it was noted I had two different sections identified on my site (besides a product section) - a section called "Articles" and a section called "Blogs". Why differentiate the two? Should they be identified differently? Thoughts?Here is my take, but I would really like to hear from others. I created the "Articles" category to ident