Password sharing is commonplace. The other day I received an email thread forwarded by a colleague that had done the rounds. Someone was desperately trying to recover a shared account password, not by using the tried and tested forgot password…
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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…
You want your own domain, it’s cheap isn’t it? One extreme case I got hired to help out with had purchased over 20 domains for a brand new initiative. It had sunk a lot of money into the new initiative,…
With the latest platform update, OurLocality is running WordPress 5.3, a bit slicker and more secure. With 5.3 comes a freshly pressed template called Twenty Twenty, which is Gutenberg ready. Gutenberg is the new page editor based on moveable blocks,…
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“It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers.” —Charles Darwin Unless you are a compulsive organiser, filing is a chore. And so is putting your news posts in right category. Making sense of piles or files isn’t always straightforward. The…
A Spam Blog (known as a Splog in the jargon) is a website or blog created exclusively to peddle links to some other website, which may be fake or otherwise misleading. Spam blogs can generally be spotted easily as they: