Category: Need to know

Password reset spam and password protection

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…

Have you just let your domain expire?

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 for a brand new initiative. It had sunk a lot of money into the new initiative, so…

Twenty Twenty is here

Good job we don't live in England, numbers of take­aways in deprived areas are five times higher than in richer ones.

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,…

To lump or to split?

By Jeremy Keith (Flickr: Device pile) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

“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…

SPAM BLOGS

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:

Short Cuts

Life is too short to remember all these short cuts, suffice to say that you will find them all listed in the ? mark in the screen editor of your editing window. The headings ones are particularly handy if your…