The Missing Component in Your WordPress Security Strategy Audit Logs

  The Missing Component in Your WordPress Security Strategy Audit Logs WordPress websites have become a popular malicious hacker target. We have all seen it in the news – thousands of WordPress websites get hacked overnight. In fact even though WordPress is really easy to use and powers around 20% of the internet sites, many […]

Simple WordPress Security

WordPress Security is important

WordPress Security should not be taken lightly especially in light of recent attacks on the platform as well as stats that show as much as 73% of WordPress websites are susceptible to a security break in one way or another. The three biggest failure points on most WordPress websites can easily be secured and fixed […]

Why Your $500 Website Costs You Thousands

Plan your work and work your plan for success with WordPress..

You need a fast properly functioning website. (warning some bias here towards Studio Press themes and affiliate links may be attached) The Below Presentation is from my talk at WordPress Meetup Victoria You can also view the presentation separately here http://wppro.ca/wpthemes A website is no longer an option for a business or organization in today’s […]

WordPress Responsive Theme Infographic

A larger portion of the people who use the internet are doing it from their mobile devices. As much as 19% of the traffic on the web is now done via mobile. Due to this amount of traffic it is becoming more important than ever to have your WordPress website mobile friendly. For more information […]

Top 30 WordPress Plugins

Top 30 WordPress Plugins

WordPress now has over 30k plugins in its repository. There are plugins for just about everything you can think of and even then somethings you might not of though of. Covering the spectrum from Ad management to inserting YouTube videos. Specialty plugins for SEO and Form Management. Finding your way though that labyrinth can be […]

Most Popular Security Plugins for WordPress

Security has become the number 1 thing to think about in WordPress these days. The graphic below show the most popular security plugins available for WordPress. This is by no means a complete list but does showcase the op downloaded plugins available in the WordPress repository. My top choice and recommendation from the list below […]

Sliding into the Winner’s circle with SlideDeck

make your WordPress site shine with SlideDeck2

Sliders Sliders and more sliders. As so many people who use WordPress know there are dozens of image sliders out there now. In the beginning there was only a couple of them but in the past year the field has expanded dramatically and I have tested and talked about several image sliders on my podcast […]

Allowed memory size of xxx bytes exhausted in WordPress

WordPress struck by memory loss

Well it has been a while since I have done up an article but this one has bugged me to many times as of late and every time I look to see what has been done it seems no one has the correct answer. So I thought I would put it out there to find […]

Export OsCommerce to WP E-Commerce Conversion Error

the mixing of the ecommerce brew

I converted over an OsCommerce store to WP E-commerce using cart to cart a great way to bring over that database especially when huge like this one was. It had over 6k items and more. The conversion tests all went well so I went ahead with full conversion.  That’s when the site broke after full […]

Discussing WordPress Plugins for Dropbox, Gravity Forms & Sharing Bars

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http://www.johnoverall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Episode86-WPPlugins-A-to-Z.mp3 http://media.blubrry.com/wordpressatoz/www.johnoverall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Episode86-WPPlugins-A-to-Z.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe to WPPlugins A to Z on RSSIt’s Episode #86 and we’ve got plugins for Dropbox integration, Gravity forms PDFs, Popups, Sharing Bars and a great new site manager plugin. All that and more coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z. This Podcast Can also be found […]

Increase your Social Media connection in WordPress News & Tips #4

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There is a Webinar at 7pm PDT on Tuesday the 4th of September Click Here to Register

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Installing and configuring Open Web Analytics plugin.

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WordPress Fall Harvest it’s Reaping Time

The best of fall harvest

WordPress is a fantastic CMS as all of you already know that is why you use it. But over time it starts to accumulate some junk in its database and needs to be cleaned up from time to time.  The are many ways to go about this cleanup process and many plugins to use but […]