Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
Saving big money by using modular WordPress development concepts
Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
Google teams up to make WordPress faster
An interesting industry development in recent months is that Google has teamed up with WordPress in an endeavour to improve WordPress’s speed. An estimate is that about 29% of content on the web is published with WordPress. If you use WordPress regularly, you’re probably aware that it is very easy to introduce quite severe slowdowns […]
3 key web trends you need to know about right now
There are three major changes that it’s critical for people with websites to know how to deal with, and this article covers those changes – SSL conversion, site loading time, and the prevalence of hacking. This article is aimed at providing a management-level overview of these three issues so you can address them before they […]
Why there’s no substitute for Magento Full Page Caching
It’s worth knowing that probably the single key performance improvement that can be done to a Magento site is to install a good caching mechanism so that website pages do not have to be recomputed regularly. These caches are often called Full Page Caches, or FPCs in abbreviated form, in Magento lingo, and are also […]
Major WordPress security bug fix released in WordPress 4.8.3 plus some background
In the last few weeks, a security researcher called Anthony Ferrera found a relatively serious security bug in WordPress. The bug essentially allows attacks via the WordPress database functions, which were not as secure as intended.
Phishing alert
Easter Security alert: Be extra careful of phishing attacks over Easter and this week – there’s a new way of making the domains look identical to legit sites – but they’re not!
Blocked by our firewall? Automatic self-unblocking now available!
Have you been blocked by the firewall? All our servers run smart firewalls, which lock people off if they keep on trying to guess your password or if they look like they are hacking into your website. This block locks out only yourself at your current location (via IP address), that is, it really […]
WordPress: How to find what just broke your site
One of the hardest issues to solve with broken WordPress sites is finding out what broke the website. To find the answer to this, we need to find out what was changed that broke the site. Being able to find out what changed easily and can quickly shorten a difficult investigative process – which is […]
Warning: don’t publish your email address!
This is a simple tip that will save you a lot of pain down the track – don’t publish your email address! What do I mean by that? I mean, don’t put your email address in clear text anywhere on the web. Not on your web pages, not on someone else’s and never in any […]
Making your WordPress site blazing FAST
Website speed (or “performance” as we like to call it) can be a tough and complex area and can be very difficult to get right without experience. However, there are some basic techniques that give big returns and in this article we’d like to share some things that normally give quick wins when your website […]