Hannah Phillips
Joshua Tree, California
(760) 821-3154
hannah@jtree.us
Selected blog posts, technical articles, interviews, and Knowledge Base articles.
(On the sites where these articles appear, most are credited to my previous name, Michael Phillips.)+ Informational
- Blog articles on the GreenGeeks website
- DDoS attacks: what they are, why they happen and what we can do about them [825 words]
- CDN in a nutshell, or: how a Content Delivery Network helps you (in more ways than you think!) [680 words]
- It's time to delete your WordPress blog [450 words]
- What's Happening with Symantec SSL Certificates? [575 words]
- Who needs a website? [1135 words]
- New ICANN Domain Change Rules Take Effect Today [460 words]
- Leaving the Material World (or: Virtual Servers to the Rescue) [935 words]
- Let's (not) Encrypt. But let's not ignore https either. [590 words]
- Web About to Reach One Billion Site Mark [545 words]
- It's not easy being green [1090 words]
- Adventures in resuscitating a 14 year old website [1300 words]
+ Technical
- A simple explanation of load balancing [560 words]
- How SSL certificates work [1190 words]
- HTTPS: Who Needs It? [800 words]
- Why we moved the Everleap blog to the Everleap servers [830 words]
- HTTPS "obsolete cryptography" message in Google Chrome, SSL certificates, SHA-1, SHA-2 [685 words]
- WP-VCD Malware, What It Is, How to Avoid It, and How to Fix a WP-VCD Infected Site [1432 words]
+ Instructional/How-to
- How to Keep WordPress Safe and Secure [1220 words]
- Backing up a MySQL Database Using MySQL Workbench [520 words]
- Set Up Gmail for Your Winhost-Hosted Domain in 10 Minutes Flat [715 words]
- Ready or Not, It's Time to Consider HTTPS [936 words]
- Defending your domain [730 words]
- Master of Your Domain - Choosing a TLD (or, The Fall of King .com) [860 words]
+ WordPress Tutorials
Articles at external links may have been edited since I wrote them.
- List of all tutorials on the GreenGeeks website
- How to Create a Custom Site-Specific WordPress Plugin
- How to Add a Gutenberg Block for a Business Profile in WordPress
- How to Limit Comment Length in WordPress With or Without a Plugin
- How to Fix Image Upload Issue in WordPress
- How to Use a Custom Font on Your WordPress Website
- How to Make WordPress Lazy Load Images to Boost Site Performance
- How to Remove the Category from a URL in WordPress
- How to Add Content-Aware Widgets to the WordPress Sidebar
- How to Optimize SEO for Your Blog With SmartCrawl for WordPress
- How to Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce in WordPress
- How to Auto Create a Custom WordPress Excerpt for Posts
- How to Find the URL for any Image Uploaded to WordPress
- How to Create a WordPress Activity Log and Why
- How to Set Up a Google Opt-Out Function in WordPress
- How to Use Drop Shadow Boxes in WordPress
- How to Filter Unanswered Comments in WordPress
- How to Automatically Resize Images in WordPress After Upload
- How to Create a WordPress Knowledge Base to Boost Visitor Retention
- How to Build an Email List with a Raffle Plugin in WordPress
- How to Build WordPress Landing Pages for Multiple Cities
- How to Remove the Footer Credit in WordPress Themes
- How to Change Site URLs in WordPress and Why
- How to Support Retina Display for Images in WordPress
- How to Easily Change a Font in Any WordPress Theme
- How to Make Forms in WordPress with Everest Forms
- How to Set Up a WordPress Profile for Groups and Communities
- How to Add Floating Links for Next and Previous Posts in WordPress
- How to Export WordPress Data to CSV Files
- How to Use the Classic Editor in WordPress and Why
- How to Place WordPress Widgets on Pages or Posts
- How to Use All In One WP Migration in WordPress
- How to Transfer a WordPress Website From Local Server Using Duplicator
- How to Manage RSVPs in WordPress
- How to Enable WordPress for Users to Report Inappropriate Comments
- How to Add a Stock Market Ticker to WordPress
- How to Get WordPress to Display Your Facebook Feed
- Using Image Credits in WordPress, a Comprehensive Guide
- How to Show a List of Posts on a Page in WordPress
- How to Add an Image Carousel in WordPress with Smart Slider 3
- How to Get WordPress Visitor Tracking With WP Statistics
- How to Add Professional Email Templates in WordPress
- How to Embed Pages into WordPress Content
- How to Create a Forum in WordPress with bbPress
- How to Add an Email Newsletter Signup to WordPress
- How to Disable the WordPress Theme and Plugin Editors
- How to Exclude Posts, Pages, Categories or Authors From WordPress Search
- How to Display Facebook Reviews on Your WordPress Site
- How to Make WordPress Show Falling Snowflakes on Your Site
+ Customer stories (interviews)
These customer stories originally appeared at: https://www.everleap.com/cloud-hosting/customer-stories/
- Kids-U & Dallas GiveCamp - image - pdf
- AmateurGolf.com - image - pdf
- GoldenSlam - image - pdf
- Clinicmaster - image - pdf
- XWord Info - image - pdf
- Country Meats - image - pdf
- ezRider - image - pdf
- Georgia User Group - image - pdf
- Little Rock Techfest - image - pdf
- Statdash - image - pdf
- UserGroup.TV - image - pdf
+ Company information/philosophy
- Does Technical Support Still Matter? [400 words]
- Your call is important to us! [885 words]
- Niches and Long Tails [840 words]
- Taking a bite out of the cloud [600 words]
- A Certificate for Every Admin and a Chicken in Every Pot [720 words]
- Meet the new media, same as the old media [545 words]
- Everleap community spotlight - Kids-U and GiveCamp [400 words]
- It's not a blow off. Really. We still love you. [580 words]
- Our evolving relationship with social media [1025 words]
- So Cal Code Camp: The amazing pizza tweet [290 words]
+ Legislation (SOPA/PIPA)
+ Disaster/outage response
- Three kinds of outages and what we can do about them [1640 words]
- Name server outage today [850 words]
- Everything fails [1090 words]
+ Cloud hosting service Knowledge Bases
Articles at external links may have been edited since I wrote them.