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Wordpress does not always make it obvious where it has hidden features like Author on its pages and posts. And it is important to remember that it is possible to have different authors on each page or post. Especially if you are looking to implement authorship images in Google search. How Read more [...]

I noticed a blog post from Hostgator yesterday that reveals the uncomfortable news of WordPress Brute Force Flood. This is an online attack of WordPress sites all over the world covering over 90,000 IP addresses. It started last week and, after a brief hiatus, resumed its attacks on the morning of Read more [...]

There is nothing worse than going into one of your WordPress blogs and discovering that you have 10,000 pending comments! The spammers have found you. That’s what happened to me this morning when I was checking on the blogs of two clients that we manage – one had over 10k, the other over 3,000 Read more [...]

We redesigned a client’s website and moved it to our own hosting with the lovely TSO Host yesterday but then got a nasty shock when we realised that the Privacy Options in WordPress had disappeared in version 3.5, leaving our site blocked from any robots or crawlers. Unable to change from Privacy Read more [...]

Everything was running smoothly and I was editing a post and save it. I went to the home page and…. … nothing! My url was in the search bar but there was no website. Cue panic! Back into the dashboard, everything looked normal, so I tried to access pages from there – they were all Read more [...]

The more advanced the technology gets, the more Cookies seem to get deposited on the websites. And, because our coding colleagues in the US don’t have the same legislation restrictions, they don’t seem to care very much when they design the plugins which are supposed to be labour saving devices for Read more [...]

The question of paid or free blogging platforms raised its head again recently when a new client was very excited to show me the new blog they had set up. I’m always very pleased with that type of initiative because it is so vital to show Google that you are regularly updating your website’s content Read more [...]

I always thought that allowing comments would make for better engagement on a site. However, the ways that people are able to scam and spam your website through comments have become legion, resulting in numerous wasted hours going through the spam to filter out the good comments and delete the Read more [...]

There are two ways that you can create content on your WordPress site – Pages and Posts. Pages are what appear across the top of the menu header and Posts are the entries on any blog component to your website. Here are two videos that tell you how to Create and how to Edit a Post in WordPress. Read more [...]

I had a very tricky job recently involving a WordPress Favicon. If you’re not sure what one is, it’s the little image that appears for each website in the tabs that run along the top of your screen. If you’re like me and have about 20 open, it’s quite a pretty picture. Anyway, one of my clients Read more [...]