New Website: American Y-Flyer Sailing Association

One of my passions is sailing and I have actively raced multiple small one-design dinghies in the midwest since I was 10 years old. I currently own a Y-Flyer and a Laser which I sail out of the Indianapolis Sailing Club. The Y-Flyer class website was a hodge-podge of Microsoft ASP (“active server pages”), custom […]

Website Optimization: NKBA Indiana Chapter

NKBA Indiana Chapter approached me with a request to “speed up” their WordPress based website. The site was sluggish to load which was affecting usability. After examining the website and corresponding WordPress configuration I found the following: the website had a hodgepodge of unused demo content supplied with the theme. the website had numerous unused plugins; […]

New Website: Revere’s Riders

Revere’s Riders is a 501 (c) (3) organization that sponsors firearms training events around the country with an emphasis on marksmanship, Revolutionary War history and civic engagement. Revere’s Riders is a largely volunteer organization and, as such, relies on donated services for the majority of it’s operations. In the past, Revere’s Riders relied on the […]

Panama Papers and WordPress

By now, most everyone has heard about the hack of Mossack Fonseca and the subsequent release of millions of private documents that have exposed some shady financial practices of many well-known international figures. This security breach and subsequent release of private documents has become known as the “Panama Papers“. What you may not know is […]

WordPress Login Security

In the WordFence Security Plugin for WordPress post I touched on the login security capabilities built into WordFence. Since I wrote that post I became aware of another interesting login security plugin for WordPress: Clef. I actually started a trial of the Clef plugin on this website and my photography website, Cardinal Acres Photography. While that […]

Testing for WordPress Upgrade Incompatibilities

So you’ve taken the plunge and started a website powered by WordPress. Everything is great. You’re posting news to your blog, adding static content pages and taking the internet by storm. Then you start seeing notices in your dashboard that you need to update WordPress itself or perhaps one of your plugins or the theme […]

Wordfence Security Plugin for WordPress

This post is a follow-up to Securing WordPress where I presented several methods to improve WordPress security. While most of the methods were easily implemented without specialized knowledge, others did require specialized knowledge of either WordPress or software configuration files. Fortunately, there are several WordPress plugins that will implement all of these security recommendations plus others I did not […]