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Your Free Site Says "Powered by Cantrip." Here's What Actually Makes That Go Away.

August 5, 2026 by Jeff

Every free Cantrip site carries a small bar at the bottom pointing back to us. It's not a setting buried in your dashboard. Here's what actually turns it off, and why it's there at all.

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You Don't Have to Be the Only One Who Can Touch Your Website

August 4, 2026 by Jeff

Hired someone to help with the website and don't want to hand over your entire account? Cantrip's team roles let you add people and control exactly what they can touch.

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One Feature Runs Your Portfolio, Your Menu, and Your Staff Page. Cantrip Calls It a Collection.

August 3, 2026 by Jeff

Blog posts are only one thing Cantrip's Collections feature can hold. If your business needs a menu, a portfolio, a staff directory, or anything else that repeats, that feature already exists, no plugin required.

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Your Contact Form Leads Don't Have to Sit in a Dashboard

August 2, 2026 by Jeff

A contact form that only lives in your website dashboard is a form nobody's checking. Here's how to send new leads straight to your inbox, a spreadsheet, or anywhere else you actually look, no developer required.

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Your Website Doesn't Need Ten Pages. It Needs Four Good Ones.

August 1, 2026 by Jeff

Most small business sites end up with a Services page and a Services Overview page saying the same thing twice, in different words. Here's the short list of pages that earn a click, and why the real cost of extra ones isn't a plan limit, it's your own time.

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Cantrip Has a Custom CSS Field. Here's Who Actually Needs to Touch It.

July 31, 2026 by Jeff

Cantrip's whole pitch is that you never touch code. There's still a plain CSS field waiting in every website's settings, and it's built for a much smaller group of people than you'd think.

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That SEO Plugin Feature Everyone Pays For? Cantrip Ships It by Default.

July 30, 2026 by Jeff

Yoast and RankMath charge to add structured data to your site. Every Cantrip page already carries it, quietly telling Google what your content actually is.

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You Don't Need Google Analytics. Your Website Already Tracks What Matters.

July 29, 2026 by Jeff

GA4 is built for marketing teams running attribution across a dozen channels. Most small business sites just need three numbers: visits, where they came from, and whether anyone reached out. Cantrip already tracks all three.

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Your Browser Says Your Site Isn't Secure. Here's What Actually Fixes It.

July 28, 2026 by Jeff

A red warning or a missing padlock icon can spook a customer fast. Here's what an SSL certificate actually does, and the one thing that actually causes the warning.

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Your Custom Domain Doesn't Come With Email. Here's How to Actually Get One.

July 27, 2026 by Jeff

Pointing your domain at Cantrip gets your site live. It doesn't get you info@yourbusiness.com. Here's the honest gap, and the two real ways to close it.

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