John Summer There is no automated option on the PayPal website to downgrade a Business account to a Personal account. Only customer support staff can start the process. You need to contact Customer Support to request the downgrade of your account. Unfortunately, the PayPal forums have many complaints from customers having difficulty getting a downgrade. This article … Read more
The extent to which you can block someone on PayPal depends on whether you have a Personal or Business account. You have more options if you have a Business account, but there are some limited actions you can with a Personal account. This article starts with a summary of what you can do with either … Read more
When you log into your PayPal account, do you see an alert saying that you must give the company your Social Security Number? Are you having difficulty withdrawing funds because you haven’t given your SSN? U.S. customers need to provide tax identification to PayPal in some circumstances. This article explains why. Why Does PayPal Need … Read more
The Wordfence plugin runs regular downloads of new and updated security rules from the central Wordfence servers. Occasionally, the plugin fails to connect or download the latest rules. Your WordPress dashboard will show a warning message. Many Wordfence users have difficulty finding the option to manually refresh the rules. This article gives you step-by-step instructions … Read more
This article covers three ways to download UpdraftPlus backups to your personal computer, by using: the UpdraftPlus plugin interface the control panel provided by your hosting service the interface provided by your remote storage service I’ll walk step by step through each method with images from my own websites and remote storage service. Although your … Read more
When you install and activate the UpdraftPlus plugin on your WordPress site, it creates a subfolder named “updraft” on your local web server storage. The Updraft Plus plugin backs up a website to the updraft subfolder in the wp-content directory on the local webserver. If remote storage is configured, the files are copied to the … Read more
This beginner’s guide to Wordfence is a quick overview of what you need to know to secure your new WordPress site. WordFence is one of the first plugins you should install on your website. The free version is enough for a small and growing site. When your site starts getting a high volume of traffic, … Read more
Uptime Robot and Cloudflare are used together on many websites. But Cloudflare provides some protection to downtime, so do you need the two services? This article discusses why it’s a good idea to use both. Do you need to do anything special to make Uptime Robot work well with Cloudflare? Usually not, but we have … Read more
Is your website up and running but your new Uptime Robot monitor is sending alerts that it’s down? These alerts are known as false positives. Uptime Robot has detected a problem that does not exist. Something isn’t working, and it’s not your website! There is usually a very simple fix. The Uptime Robot IP addresses … Read more
This tutorial shows you how to use Uptime Robot to create a monitor that alerts you if your home page isn’t loading for visitors. When you create your free account, you can start monitoring a website immediately. There are several types of monitoring to choose from, but you’ll probably start with checking the availability of … Read more