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At Glimmernet, our blog is where expertise meets real-world insight.
We cover everything from WordPress and web design best practices to digital compliance, social media strategy, and business development tips. Whether you’re looking to secure your site, optimize your online presence, or better understand the tools driving modern websites, you’ll find reliable, actionable advice here. Our goal is to make complex topics approachable — without the jargon or ego.
Online Sales and Telework Grants Applications Available
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has announced a new grant program for Montgomery County small businesses to help them promote their products and services prior to the holiday shopping season.Glimmernet participated in the information session on November 10th...
Read Meter Always Shows 1 Minute Read Time
After installing the Read Meter plugin on our site we realized there is a major issue: the Read Meter Plugin always displays 1 minute regardless of the length of the blog post. Fortunately, there is a easy fix for this. Why Does Read Meter Always Display 1 minute? If...
Glimmernet is now accepting payments via Venmo for Business!
Glimmernet Technologies has been verified into the Venmo For Business program! We are now able to accept payments for invoices via Venmo and make payments to vendors via Venmo.
WordPress Hosting in Eastern Europe
WordPress Hosting in Eastern Europe Now Live — Fast, Secure, and Built for Global Teams We’re proud to announce the launch of our newest infrastructure offering: WordPress hosting in Eastern Europe. This purpose-built server is optimized for speed, security, and zero...
Antifa Redirects to Joe Biden
There is a meme going around right now that says to type in antifa.com and see what happens. Spoiler: antifa redirects to Joe Biden. That is antifa.com redirects to joebiden.com. The political right says this shows Biden’s support for antifa. The political left is...
Does JoeBiden.com Host Antifa.com
This post is a sidebar on an deep dive into domain redirects as it relates to Antifa.com redirecting to JoeBiden.com. If you haven't already done so, please read the post titled Antifa Redirects to Joe Biden for context on why this part of the test was necessary and...
Adding a WordPress User via PHP
Occasionally it happens where we are inheriting a site developed by someone else where we have file system access, but not access to WordPress itself. When this occurs, we can use PHP to create a new WordPress administrator account to let us into WordPress to take...
Plugins that every WordPress site should have installed – Updated for 2020
Here is a short list of a few plugins that we use on virtually every site. I selected the items on this short list to keep things simple and relevant to every WordPress installation regardless of size, traffic, content, etc. You'll probably need other plugins, but...
Hacked by ppe-hosted.com?
We received an alert from our internal monitoring system that a domain that we oversee for one of our clients had a configuration error causing the www subdomain to not resolve properly. We immediately ran a DNS report to see what was amiss and noticed that, not only...