Author: Thomas Parkes
Basic WordPress Security
WordPress represents 26.4% of the top 10 million websites and is the most popular Content Management System (CMS) system with more than 60 million installations. Being so popular makes it a target from hackers and cybercriminals. If you have a WordPress website, or are going thinking about using WordPress, here are a few basic tips to minimise
Google Chrome v45 & WordPress menu bug
Recently after upgrading to v45 of Google Chrome I noticed that my admin menu in WordPress was doing strange things, jumbling whilst hovering. After quite I bit of Googling, it was not just me experiencing this issue. Fortunately there are some great minds out in the community that can lend a hand. Bug fixes Google
Hire a photographer!!
There is an old saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words” So don’t be a tight-arse!! With digital camera’s so cheap, and the megapixels on your smartphone nearly 10 megapixels, businesses are still making the bad mistake of taking photos of their product or service themselves. If you’re trying to sell a product or service on
Treat your website like a car
Treating your website like a car may sound like a weird analogy, but it makes sense. If you want your website to stay in the fast lane, you should regularly service and maintain your website. Service I have my car engine serviced about twice a year, and the tyres changed every 2-3 years. Like a
SEO ebooks
Ranking higher than your competitors on Google ongoing job which can become expensive if outsourcing the work. The great thing when your website uses a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress, you have the capacity to do much of the SEO work yourself using free plugins. There are three free tools that are vital for SEO: WordPress SEO
Social media platform overload
It is frustrating arriving to a website with social media icons everywhere saying “Connect to us” and “I’m social”, when the reality is, they only actively use one platform, or share that same post automatically with another two platforms. The problem is, how many platforms should you engage with? Over the years I have attended many social media
Vale Google Authorship
It is with great sadness today that we morn the passing of Google Authorship. Google Authorship died so young, however it was a beautiful, elegant life lived. For such a beautiful life, Authorship’s parent Google will only morn the lost revenuefrom sponsored ads. We found Google Authorship was very useful in finding trusted sources of information quickly. Displaying the Google+