Easy Updates Manager Blog

How it works WordPress stores images in two parts: The image files are stored on the server, typically in the ‘wp-content/uploads’ directory of the site. A record of the image is then stored in the database, in the Media Library. This record also includes other data...

As a WordPress user, you may have created a site with members who have been granted various levels of access other than admin; such as editor or moderator. As such, you should be aware that as the owner and admin of this site, should you attempt to clone the site and...

Many websites can accumulate hundreds, if not thousands of images over time. Having all these images on your site in their original uncompressed format can cause frustratingly slow website loading speeds, which can impact on a website’s user experience, bounce rate...

Which of the leading contenders has the best optimization plugins for WordPress? Optimizing a WordPress site is an essential process that can help speed up your site via caching, image optimization and database optimization. It can also improve performance and help...

The option to clone a WordPress website has proven to be a hugely popular and useful feature for both Updraft Migrator and UpdraftClone. As such, we have updated our written and video instructions on how to clone a website using these two different packages.  There...

The latest updates for UpdraftPlus 1.16.42 have now been released. This latest update of UpdraftPlus comes with a great new Dropbox feature and a host of tweaks to help improve the usability and performance of UpdraftPlus for all it’s users. This latest release comes...

Thanks to the support of everyone that downloaded the WP-Optimize plugin, we are thrilled to announce that WP-Optimize has now achieved the massive milestone of 1,000,000 active installs. This makes WP-Optimize the 52nd most installed WordPress plugin in the world...

Updating the PHP version on your live website risks breaking something you don’t expect.  That’s why it’s best practice to test any PHP update on a test sandbox version of your website.   We are happy to announce that the latest update for UpdraftPlus makes it very...

Black Friday is the biggest shopping event of the year! A time when people eagerly check websites and seek out the best deals available. Though this Black Friday shopping season is not like any we have experienced in the past, you can still take advantage of our big...

Backups are one of, if not the most important part of setting up a WordPress site. Disaster can strike at any moment. Be it an errant plugin update or a malicious hack; your website and data is always just one click away from potentially being gone forever. There are...