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WordPress comes preloaded with several widgets. Instead of searching for plugins that could add a potential security hole to your site, be sure that you are making the most of what you already have. Several of the standard widgets can radically impact your SEO and site ranking too.
If you’ve had an online business for long, it’s likely that your hosting account is in a mess, and you probably don’t even know how bad it is. It could be full of abandoned sites orphaned files from deleted plugins orphaned database tables from deleted plugins or clogged with tons of old emails. All of…
G+ has rolled out a full bleed feature for images. There are specific requirements that trigger this effect. Mike Allton has a super helpful post with the details. Here’s what you need to know as a WordPress site owner to check for those specifics to see if your theme has them or not. Plus, the Google penalties that you could draw if you try to run end around the rules.
WordPress 3.9 saw a major overhaul of the TinyMCE text editor engine. And that affected every plugin that depended on it, especially advanced text editors. While TinyMCE Advanced developer Andrew Ozz chose to revamp his popular plugin, Josh Lobe has elected to go another route with the Ultimate TinyMCE plugin. It does not work with…
The popular TinyMCE Advanced plugin has been revamped for WordPress 3.9 as of April 19 2014. In fact, the new plugin will not give you an update notice until it detects that you have upgraded to 3.9, which is great, because it is required. In this video, I’ll take you on a tour of the new features and the quick and dirty setup of the toolbars.
See the new features and caveats in WordPress 3.9, which is due to be released April 16th. It has several significant changes, including to the TinyMCE text editor and how media is handled. There’s also a new widget previewer and support for audio/video playlists. In this video I give you a quick tour of these changes and best practices when using some of them.
A single hacker took down the HootSuite service in a DoS attack on March 20 2014. That’s the scariest part of the whole story. One hacker disabled a major online service. Here’s what you need to know about the difference in a DoS and a DDoS attack and how to protect your site.
Hackers are using the XML-RPC function in WordPress for DDoS botnet attacks as well as Brute Force attacks. Find out what XML-RPC is, where it’s used on your site, and how to secure your site against this vulnerability. Plus, discover how XML-RPC may be used in the future and what you need to avoid.
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