Due to security concerns, we generally try and keep the WordPress websites we host as up-to-date as possible , both in terms of the WordPress core, plugins and themes. Unfortunately this morning I got ...
I am often asked by customers why they can’t update ‘so and so’ on their website – sometimes this might be a editing a contact form or processing script, other times something ...
Good bye MediaTemple! I’d like to say its been fun but unfortunately its been a disaster and I’m very happy to say WP Engine has been great so far (full review of them below). In May 201 ...
An update to Google’s Webmaster Tools has serious implications for outdated websites and non-mobile friendly websites. Ethan Marcotte first brought ‘Responsive Design’ to the mainstream in 2011 with h ...
For the first time in a very long time, a website that I created was recently hacked and no, I’m not embarrassed or ashamed. Over the past few years I’ve come to terms with the fact that I ...
As the owner of an IT service provider in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), an issue our customers come up against over and over again is that of getting their business listed fully in the ‘Goog ...
Quite regularly I need to retrieve some FTP settings and the one place I know I have them handy is in Dreamweaver (or in my repository of Dreamweaver STE files). Unfortunately Dreamweaver vaguely encr ...
A few days ago I was setting up a new WordPress site that wasn’t going in to production for a few days and saw the option to update to WordPress 4.0 – the perfect opportunity to upgrade wi ...
I was recently working on a website that used the LayerSlider slideshow animation/carousel. The customer asked me for a specific animation type he’d seen out of the random pool. There began a ...
Every now and then when I’m working on a MySQL database and trying to manually update records, my update query gets knocked back with the following error (or something similar depending on if I& ...
