Some time ago in the stone age of the internet, we gave the feedburner service a whirl. This allowed users to register an account at feedburner and get an email feed of https://news.ourlocality.org when it was updated by any of…
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Yes, we all do. Unless it doesn’t get in the way. In the past ReCaptcha (the software trick to stop pesky robots taking over your website) did get in the way, so we dropped it.
There’s a measure in our setup to prevent discovery of your usernames by preventing scans of ‘/?author=N’, the oEmbed API, the WordPress REST API, and WordPress XML Sitemaps. However we’ve noticed a small increase in password reset activity to info@yourdomain.what.ever…
There are only a few of you that have ventured into WordPress blocks, aka the Gutenberg Editor. Here’s an initial tutorial that you might like to run through, before you dive in. We’ve enabled the Gutenberg editor but only as…
Most of our domains migrated successfully yesterday during the allotted maintenance window. A number needed further nudging and cajoling, and several required a gentle kick. By this morning there were only 4 websites left with a temporary redirect. We’re still…
We’ve set a maintenance window of around 1 hour at 2pm Thursday 13th August. In the run up all website owners are requested to keep away from the administration area. Updates right up to the wire may not get transferred,…