I’ve got my nephew Neil, his wife Jo and their adorable newborn baby daughter Naomi (just 4 months old) visiting us from the UK this week, and it really got me thinking about WordPress Security & Maintenance… You see, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been around a tiny baby and it’s amazing…Read more…
Gravatars – Do they Compromise Your Privacy?
This may be considered old news, but I got an email from a friend and client today asking if I’d seen a Wordfence email about Gravatars and their potential to be reverse engineered to expose your email address. She shared the email with me, so I took a look to see what Wordfence had to…Read more…
What About Ongoing WordPress Performance?
WordPress is well loved for good reason, it’s easy to use and highly effective. It does require a lot of Javascript (not to be confused with the dreaded Java), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and other code in order to work properly and deliver the expected results though. The more we add to our sites in…Read more…
How Does WP-WebWorks Help With WordPress Security?
If you’re a bit of a technophobe, even though it’s actially fairly easy, it can still be quite intimidating to attempt installing WordPress yourself, especially for the first time. As this is the foundation of your website or web business, you sure want to know it’s not built on quicksand or open to easy invasion…Read more…
Can Anyone Use WordPress?
ABSOLUTELY! WordPress is THE most popular website building platform, with over 22% of all new websites being built on the platform. WP is open source software that has been around since 2004 and since then has become much loved by millions, including all the major search engines! It’s a known fact that the easier it…Read more…