At the end of January, I tweeted about a new WordPress experience I had. After developing WordPress blogs and websites for 12+ years and using graphical icon representations the majority of that time, I used a WordPress icon font plugin and a shortcode, instead of graphics, to spice up the content …
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Print a Course made with WP-Courseware
Wondering how to print a course that you developed using WP-Courseware? Oh... you can't. Well, not until now! During Q1 2020, I've been writing an online course. I am creating the content using a storyboard that I developed as a guide. There is no document that contains all of the …
WordPress Plugins can Increase Website Vulnerability
I was prompted to write this post after reading the stats presented in this article at Threatpost. "Almost all (98 percent) of WordPress vulnerabilities are related to plugins that extend the functionality and features of a website or a blog. The top 10 vulnerable plugins include..." We are in a …
WordPress Plugin Security Alert
Alert for WordPress Bloggers If your blog/website uses the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) plugin, chances are, your WordPress blog/website has been compromised. A backdoor hack has been discovered by Sucuri Security. March 4, 2016, Denis Sinegubko, wrote a post entitled, When a WordPress …
Most Attacked WordPress Plugins in January 2017
In Wordfence's monthly report about attacks on WordPress websites, they list the top 25 plugins that received the most focus in January 2017. In order of the number of MOST attacks received, they are: wp-ecommerce-shop-styling wp-symposium candidate-application-form …
Go-To Plugins for Transferring a WordPress Website
When I transfer WordPress websites from one hosting company to another or even one server to another, I tend to install and use a limited set of WordPress plugins to assist in the transfer. Which plugins are used depends on the website's set up, but, here's a list of the plugins that help developers …
Easiest way to add a Facebook Pixel to a WordPress Website
A client recently asked me to add a Facebook pixel to a single page on their website. The website currently consists of 35 pages and 498 posts. Having customized WordPress websites for over a decade, I have the skills to edit the functions.php file and make the code appear on that page, and that …
WordPress Performance Testing
Recently, I was engaged to work with a sometime client to help determine what might be eating up all the memory at her website and bringing the whole server (including another of her websites) down for 6 hours at a time. She had been working with her hosting company for a week on it and they had not …
THE Must-Have WordPress Plugin: Limit Login Attempts
Limit Login Attempts is THE must-have plugin that every WordPress blogger needs to install TODAY. Limit Login Attempts does just what its name says; it counts consecutive login attempts and disallows further attempts from a location when the max number of attempts allowed at one time has been …
Best WordPress Plugin Dynamic Widgets
My current favorite WordPress® plugin is Dynamic Widgets by Qurl. I had been wishing for a long time that such a plugin existed, but, having over 25 years programming experience, I understood the programming effort it would take, and never thought that anyone would invest the time. Thanks to Qurl, …