ZippyKid Partners with Google to Deliver Blazing Fast WordPress Sites

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The latest studies and reports are showing that web sites are getting bigger.  The pictures and video we’re taking with our smart devices aren’t designed for the web and are contributing to an increase in page weight, year over year. For the past two years, companies like ZippyKid have been including and pushing for the… Read more »

WordPress 3.5.1 has been released. Automatic WordPress update has begun for active sites.

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WordPress 3.5.1 was released a few hours ago, when the release came out, we started sending notifications to customers about pending upgrades. You can see what’s new in WordPress 3.5.1 here. This is a security update, and it is mandatory. We’re trying something new this time around, where you’ll be getting an individual email per automatic… Read more »

A basic guide on how to debug WordPress themes and plugins

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This blog post is going to be slightly more technical than usual. It’s targeted towards developers/coders of WordPress websites. If you’re just installing a theme, adding some plugins from the repo, and configuring them, this post is not for you. If you write custom plugins, build your own child themes, or themes, or if you’re the… Read more »

Beta 2 of our WordPress Hosting Control Panel (MyZippyKid) launched

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In September, when we launched our new hosting architecture, ZippyKid the Next Generation, we took the famous 5 minute install down to 5 seconds. Now we’re making it even easier to manage the most advanced WordPress hosting environment EVER. This is the start of “WordPress as a Service” . What’s New? Site List We’ve changed the… Read more »

Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.

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A long time ago, I wrote an article talking about how to speed up your photography website by using the Smush.it plugin. This was literally a few months after the company had started and we were hosting less than a 100 websites. As we’ve grown, and as Yahoo! has declined, we started noticing a lot of… Read more »