Comment Spam: When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site …
When the Good Guys Can Find Your Site … so can the bad guys! And, some of the bad guys will try to load your site with Comment Spam.
Category: WordPress Plugins
How Much Work Does It Take to Make It Easy for your Viewers?
Answer: A lot of work. Here is an example When I was first building this site, I threw up a Recent Posts widget in the right sidebar. It has bugged me ever since. As noted in the screenshot, the article topic is a social media topic, but the first article …
“If You Have One Backup, You Have No Backups”
I had a hacked client website situation where we had to go through several months of backups to find a copy that didn’t have the compromised code.
What Good is Text if no one Reads it … Besides Google?
Google will give me credit for changing the content on my slider. But the words are not easy for a human to notice or read.
Plugin Writers Don’t Have Crystal Balls
… they can’t foretell every possible situation where people will want their plugin (or theme) to work. That means that just because a plugin is supposed to do a specific job, it doesn’t mean it will do what you want, in your specific case. Sometimes the reason a plugin is …
When Technologies Collide, part 1
On my first WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, I created a child theme and added a MetaSlider to the home page banner in the child theme code. I didn’t even bother with the Customizer tools because they are not intuitive On my second WordPress site using the Kahuna theme, …
The Side Effects of Changing Plugins
When the Need for a Plugin Arises In a previous post, I reviewed some issues I was having with trying to decide the best way to communicate what I do with a banner image. You want your website to immediately communicate what you do when the page first loads, but …
Those “Default” WordPress Plugins
Why Are There Unexpected Plugins in my WordPress Install? One of the steps of setting up a new WordPress site is to check the default plugins that come with a WordPress install.Some of the plugins, such as Akismet, will be from WordPress. Others will be from the install tool that …