10
Mar
Mar
Occasionally, a website will need to be redesigned whether you want to or not. This is most often due to the underlying software or component of the website becoming incompatible, unsupported or just plain abandoned by the developer.
18
Sep
Sep
Flojos is a manufacturer of sandals, flip-flops and boots catering to the active California beach-oriented lifestyle. Over three decades ago, they introduced the revolutionary Original Flojos sandal and haven’t looked back since. Flojos are sold by major online retailers, brick-and-mortar retailers as well as their own online store.
05
Feb
Feb
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 […]
23
Oct
Oct
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 […]
17
Sep
Sep
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 […]
10
Sep
Sep
Since this spring, websites running WordPress have been the target of a large and coordinated brute-force attack. According to TechCrunch, in April this attack involved the use of over 90,000 IP addresses! If you think your WordPress website hasn’t been affected by this attack, you’re likely not paying attention…
28
Aug
Aug
Lee Cohn is an award-winning and skilled artisan who hand fabricates fabulous jewelry, hollow ware and mobiles in his own shop. Custom design a piece of jewelry? No problem for Lee. Design and maintain a website to showcase his artwork? Not so much.
28
Aug
Aug
Marcy Neiditz is an accomplished ceramic artist whose award-winning artwork can be found in several Bloomington, IN art galleries and private collections as well as a public art installation. In addition, she also finds time to teach at Ivy Tech Community College’s Waldron Art Center. After all that is accomplished, she somehow finds time to […]
19
Jun
Jun
With version 3.7 of WordPress, maintenance and security updates (usually where the 3rd number in the version is incremented, e.g. 3.7 to 3.7.1) have been applied automatically in the background with no intervention from the site administrator. Ensuring that WordPress installs with absent administrators don’t become targets for malicious attacks being just one of many […]
29
Apr
Apr
“Cybersquatting” is the practice of buying a domain name of a trademarked service with the intent of reselling it at a profit. Unfortunately, there are many individuals and companies who profit from this practice and one of my clients was recently a victim.