Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
WordPress is free, with great themes to make your site look the business, and there are plenty of developers who will help put it all together for you, but there are some hidden costs you need to be aware of before going ahead.
Have you received a notification that your WordPress site has been updated to WordPress 4.0-alpha. Not expecting that? Want to know how to restore to a stable version of WordPress?
Are you having trouble getting your responsive tables in WordPress to work properly? We recently implemented a custom CSS / HTML solution for a client that avoids using plugins and is easy to manage.
Broken links can badly impact a visitors experience of your website, and your search engine performance too. Make sure you install a broken link checker and regularly fix any errors it finds.
I recently came across an issue when upgrading the Events Manager WordPress plugin on one of the sites we manage.
The error was ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_home_path() in …/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 128’.
With all the worries about website hacking, are you and your webmaster doing all you can to reduce the risk to your own site?
Here are our 10 top suggestions for basic changes that will make your WordPress website more secure.
WordPress updates can cause changes, such as the disappearance of search engine privacy settings, but it is essential to stay as up-to-date as possible. Running an old WordPress version could have some serious implications.
If you use the BuddyPress WordPress plugin you might have noticed that some random links are automatically generated for text in your profile fields.
These links help visitors search for the same keywords in other profiles, but there doesn’t seem to be a setting to switch this off, or to manage the links so that only useful keywords become links.
Comment spam can be a real headache for new blog owners, and after a period of time this can grow to several hundred comments a day.
This is no benefit to your website, and indeed can be detrimental to it, and it can take a lot of your time to remove it.
So, what do you do… and why do people bother spamming your site anyway?