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A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
Responsive tables in WordPress websites
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.
A broken link checker removes barriers, enhancing your user’s website experience
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.
Getting around WordPress Events Manager plugin conflict problems
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’.
WordPress hacking attacks – keeping your site safe
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.
Where have my WordPress search engine privacy settings gone?
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.
Buddypress WordPress plugin to remove profile links
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.
How to manage WordPress Comment Spam
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?
WordPress stuck in maintenance mode? Is your site “briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”?
Is WordPress stuck in maintenance mode after an update? Have you just updated a plugin or WordPress version only to find that you cannot access your website again afterwards? This may be caused by a file that WordPress has left behind. Here’s what you need to do to activate your WordPress site after an update…
Have you filled up your WordPress storage quota or limit?
In a WordPress multi-site installation you might see a message saying you have exceeded your storage quota when uploading a new media file or image. This is an easy thing to fix if you control your own WordPress network.