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You may notice an email address in your GreenGeeks account called “Default.” That email account is automatically created when your cPanel user is created. On some systems, a default email address acts as a “catch-all.” That means any email addressed to the domain for a non-existent email user winds up in the default email box….
Want to keep your WordPress site away from prying eyes?! It’s really easy to password protect your whole WordPress site. This article offers two very simple methods to choose from; one using an easy plugin, the other utilizing a feature of your hosting control panel. In either case, it’s just a matter of a few clicks 🙂
Most code exporting tools are clunky and not very reliable. However, Slinky is a different kind of exporter for Sketch, that turns your designs into fully-compatible newsletter templates. It’s easy to find newsletter ideas and recreate your favorites in a design program. But, usually hard-coding the newsletter takes a lot of time that could be…
In this case study, we’ll learn about how Zero BS CRM improved their support documentation through our KnowAll WordPress theme. Mike Stott, a man wearing many hats at Zero BS CRM, spent some time talking with us about how KnowAll helped Zero BS CRM’s knowledge base, as well as some interesting ways in which Mike…
Email authentication makes it more difficult for spammers to “spoof” (make an email appear that it came from your domain) email addresses on your domain. It can also validate email sent from your domain, greatly reducing deliverability issues. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to enable email authentication In cPanel, both through email settings…
No one likes being bombarded by unsolicited junk email. Luckily, there is a way to significantly reduce the amount of spam that makes it to your inbox. Email applications like Mozilla Thunderbird have built-in spam filtering. However, you may need something that is a bit more effective and configurable. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to…
What if you have a website hosted with one provider but want your email to arrive at another? That’s when changing the Mail Exchange record comes into play. This is often referred to as the MX record. Essentially, you tell the original domain server to send email to a new server location. This can be…
Time flies and we are now in the middle of 2017. In this month’s installment, we have an array of great JavaScript libraries and a few others like a plugin to enable GraphQL in WordPress, a desktop application to render CSV data, and a few website frameworks. Let’s check them out. HeroPatterns A collection of…
Keeping up with social media can feel like a full-time job these days — and for many it is. Posting your content on Twitter and Facebook during specific hours, and keeping things evenly spaced out, means that you need to tend to your profiles pretty often. We wanted to make it easier for WordPress.com users…
Ports are access points connected to your domain. Certain tools and functions will operate on specific ports. This offers a level of security and makes accessing those tools possible. Email can operate on various ports depending on what you’re trying to accomplish. For example, POP3 is a common port for email on servers running on…
Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities. At WordPress.com, we want to support local businesses as they grow…
Automattic strongly believes in a free and open Internet and it’s hard to imagine a truly open Internet without Net Neutrality. What Is Net Neutrality? “Net Neutrality” is the simple but very powerful principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. Whether you’re reading a blog post on WordPress.com, streaming Game of Thrones on…
Importing address and forwarders is a great time saver when you move a web hosting account from one provider to another. Using data stored in an Excel or CSV file, you can quickly rebuild or update email properties. This is especially useful if you have to recover from a disaster. In this tutorial, I’m going…
Hi everyone! Here’s a snapshot of some of the excellent WordPress.com community advice, insights, and updates that we enjoyed over the past month. What’s new Introducing Your New Social Icons Widget The Social Icons Widget allows you to connect your site to your favorite social media networks. You can activate it by going to My…
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Email domain forwarding is when you set an entire list of email addresses for a website to forward on to a new domain address. For instance, you can have all the email for ggexample.com forwarded to ggexample.net. Something like this works great for those who decided to change the domain name of a website. In…
Email forwarding is when you set your account to send messages to another address. When someone sends email to something like you@ggexample.com, you can have the message sent to you@gmail.com. It works similar to how you would forward postal mail. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to set these forwarders from the…
Andrew Youderian • July 9, 2017 One of the best things you can do for your business and your customers is to make sure someone rock solid is on the receiving end of all those tickets. Why? The studies don’t lie. Here’s why investing heavily in email support hiring is well worth your time. Read…
Losing a password to an email address has the potential to become quite problematic. For instance, what if a person operating an eCommerce site was unable to access an address used for processing shipments? Luckily, it’s easy to reset email passwords in cPanel. All it takes is a few moments, and the account is back…
Working for an all-remote company has ton of perks, and being able to work from anywhere with a stable (or sometimes not-so-stable) internet connection is one of the best parts. It’s super fun to see some of the weird, unconventional, and cool places some of my co-workers check in from on a daily basis. Working remotely…