Understanding the Cost of WordPress Maintenance and Its Impact on ROI WordPress maintenance is rarely discussed clearly. Most explanations are either vague, overly technical, or framed as a sales pitch. This page is meant to do something simpler: explain what WordPress maintenance actually involves, what it costs in real terms, and how it impacts the … Read more
Google’s algorithms do not care about your desktop site anymore. Mobile-first indexing is the standard, yet many site owners treat it as an afterthought. This negligence will destroy your visibility in 2026. If you run a website on WordPress, mastering mobile indexing is the only way to secure organic growth and maintain a competitive edge. … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just for Silicon Valley anymore—it’s quickly becoming a practical tool for website owners who want to stay ahead of the curve. From smarter content creation to automated troubleshooting, AI offers real, tangible ways to improve your WordPress site. Here at Watermelon, we’ve been exploring AI-powered solutions for our own internal tools, … Read more
Post types in WordPress – and why they matter… If you’ve used WordPress for more than five minutes, you’ve interacted with a post type — even if you didn’t realize it. From blog posts to pages, products to events, post types are the building blocks of WordPress; from what you see to what is working … Read more
A conversion is when a person visiting an online store takes a specific action that the store owner wants. After all, what’s the point of having an online store if it doesn’t help accomplish the store owner’s goals? Optimizing conversions is clearly necessary for any e-commerce business, but with countless strategies to choose from, how … Read more
Considering creating a new WordPress website or hiring a website development team to create a personalized site for you? Whichever route you choose here are some things to consider: Purpose and Goals It’s important to clearly define the purpose of the website and establish specific goals. Whether it’s to sell products via e-commerce, provide information, … Read more
It’s no secret that websites are a favorite target for hackers. The ability to compromise a site through a plugin, unpatched security hole, contact form or a thousand other ways can open the door to a veritable online crime spree. It’s also an unfortunate fact that WordPress sites are a favorite target for hackers. While … Read more
When you hear the word “blogging,” it might take you back to the early days of the internet, where companies like AOL and Netscape were giving everyday users their first taste of the net. In many ways, blogging was social media before social media; ordinary people writing about their lives and interests and putting it … Read more
Magento 1 was EOL (end-of-life) in June 2020. This means that Magento no longer officially supports the platform, and they issued the very last security patch on June 22, 2020. Since then, there have been multiple Magento websites hacked, ransom-wared, and otherwise exploited by criminals who are all too aware of the vulnerability of Magento 1 sites that remain in the wild. Please read Online store hacked in largest campaign to date for evidence of this occurring already.
If you are starting a new Ecommerce business or thinking about migrating from an older Ecommerce site you aren’t happy with anymore, then you will of course have to make a profound decision: what software is going to run this new (or new and improved) shopping experience for your eager customers?
Some of the big players would be: Shopify, Squarespace (with their Ecommerce plugins), BigCommerce, Wordpress + WooCommerce, etc., the list goes on and on (and if you have an ERP system, your ERP system may even have some kind of shopping front-end). And you may have heard of a very popular choice, Magento (current version 2.4.2 as of this writing). You may have already done your homework and found out that Magento 2 is a complete Ecommerce solution, with hundreds of popular extensions to fit a myriad of use-cases, with core features that handle product management, to inventory, to complete order/invoicing/shipping flow (and that’s just the core features!)