Website is not secure – how to fix
If you have just seen a message in your web browser that your site (or another) is insecure – relax. It probably just means that you don’t have an SSL certificate. Your site or the site you are...
View ArticlePreview: Matt Mullenweg in New Zealand
Matt Mullenweg will be in Wellington and Auckland on June 17th and 18th this year. It is Matts second visit to New Zealand and five years since he came to the first ever NZ wordcamp held in Wellington...
View ArticleInspiration is the best rocket fuel
Last night Matt Mullenweg told the story of WordPress and how it had all happened. It was a kind of a one man solo theatre performance with a stream of anecdotes counterpointing each step along the...
View ArticleWordPress Rescue Service
Every few months I get invited / asked to have a look at an existing WordPress site with a view to me taking over WordPress support. Often they need WordPress rescue. Typically someone has setup a site...
View ArticleDid an old WordPress site enable Panama Papers leak?
There has been a fair amount of speculation that the #Panamapapers leak about tax havens and private trusts may have been at least partially enabled by old versions of WordPress and Drupal which are...
View ArticleBrute Force Attacks on WordPress sites
Brute force login attacks on WordPress sites seem to be increasing. What I have noticed is that the number of IP numbers being used as an attacking forces seem to have grown in number and intensity. I...
View ArticleSo you wanna be a web dev?
It is the end of a school / university year and people are thinking about what to do to become more web savvy. Here are some ideas. The notes below are the latest version of a set of conversations for...
View ArticleWordCamp Auckland 2017
This weekend I went along to WordCamp Auckland which was a gathering of 70 or so WordPress users, developers, bloggers and designers. I’ve been to quite a few wordcamps* before myself and it is often a...
View ArticleWordPress 5 – new editor
Last week WordPress core was updated to version 5.0. A new version is generally no big deal and if you look at the release archive you can see this is number 12* for the year. Most of those are...
View ArticlePlanning review for your WordPress website
Is your WordPress website performing as it should? With more online business and online traffic generally it may be time for a re-think about how your site works and which elements might need...
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