May 17, 2012

You have a Great WordPress website So why Isn’t up to to Date?

Majik 8 Ball --- How is my site security?

It is very important that you keep your WordPress website up to date as recent events have shown again.  See these articles: Search WordPress Plugins The Best WordPress Plugin Directory Search Engine Major security vulnerability discovered in popular WordPress plugin 30,000 WordPress Blogs Infected to Distribute Rogue Antivirus Software WARNING: 200,000 US-based WordPress web pages compromised by hijack injection attack An argument I … [Read more...]

WordPress Emergency Support

Calm your WordPress Beast

You have a WordPress website and something drastic has happened. Maybe you have been compromised and hacked. You may have the great White Screen of Death, or maybe your admin area has stopped loading properly and everything is now a mess. First thing to do is realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train and we can usually help rescue you out of this issue with minimum problems. This page is here to help you with … [Read more...]

Keeping WordPress Upto date

WordPress Rules--Drink the Kool-aid now.

While WordPress is one of the most fantastic CMS systems on the internet and usually performs flawlessly, WordPress like all software requires some management and maintenance to keep it preforming at its best. WordPress regularly releases updates to the program and while it is a pretty simple process to update sometimes things go wrong. Other times it may simply slip your mind due to other pressing needs in your business. What I  offer you is … [Read more...]

WordCamp Victoria 2012 — Special Episode of WordPress Plugins from A to Z #57

Let the light shine

This is a special episode of the WordPress Plugins from A to Z Podcast, this contains the audio from my presentation at WordCamp Victoria 2012. In an effort to help folks understand the simplicity of  WordPress this presentation is called WordPress 101 and discusses how and what you can use WordPress for and what to look for during all your initial setup of your WordPress install. While WordPress has its famous 5 minute install it still … [Read more...]

WordPress 3.2 is here now!!

The Old Young Building at Camosun College

Well it came almost on cue for what I predicted a couple day early but still just about when I said it would arrive. I get to send this out from the warm wonderful state of Oklahoma. I am down here in Tulsa on some business so if you follow me and you’re from here say hi. Anyway, this release of WordPress brings some nice new enhancements to it as outlined below. I do suggest you test it out before applying it to your live site because you … [Read more...]

WordPress 3.1.3 Securty Update Released

In my sights

WordPress release a new security update today, seems they have hardened up a couple of things and added a new feature to help protect against clickjacking. here is the summary of what was done. Summary Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros. Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen … [Read more...]

Why WordPress is Not For You!!!

Stand out above the rest with WordPress Training

So after seeing many articles on why WordPress is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I thought I would change it up a bit a do an article on why WordPress is not for you. So why would I someone who teaches people how to use WordPress and advocate it use in just about every application recommend something else. Well here is my top Five list of reason why not to use WordPress: 1.       You do not need traffic to your … [Read more...]