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As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order… Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username. Move To [...]
Sucuri reported on their blog yesterday that the WordPress Social Media Widget plugin is injecting payday loan spam into websites. It is recommended that you remove the plugin from your WordPress site. How to Remove The Social Media Widget Plugin Apologies for the poor sound, I still have not replaced my Muppet chewed headset! Written [...]
Everyone knows that images can bring life to your blog posts and landing pages. The problem is many people don’t optimise or compress their images, which slows down your loading time. Cloudinary have a great solution Cloudinary recently released their free WordPress plugin that allows you to take advantage of their image optimisation, manipulation [...]
WordPress 3.5 is here and it’s time to upgrade again. With any major release, there are bound to be glitches with themes and plugins along the way. Known WordPress upgrade issues can be found on this post over at wordpress.org How To Upgrade To WordPress 3.5 I’m going to outline how I upgrade clients and [...]
Quote images are taking over the social sharing space. From Pinterest to Facebook, can you go a day without seeing a quote image fly through the stream? As a service business owner with limited graphic ability, sometimes it’s difficult to take advantage of the latests trends in image sharing. When it comes to online visibility, [...]
The New Recommendations Bar Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new recommendation bar. There’s been a recommendations box around for a while now. The bar is different… You’ll see the new Facebook “bar” pop up in a little while down on the right corner. At the moment it’s a nice, unintrusive like button. As you [...]
(or almost 2/3 of the UK have gone mobile crazy) Nomo…what? Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. It apparently affects 66% of the population. I’ll be honest, I don’t get it. People who know or work with me know I am closer to the mophobia side of the spectrum. My mobile [...]
The new EU Cookie law comes into force on 26th May 2012. I have been having much fun looking for cookie solutions for WordPress. I’ll be honest, I think this new EU Directive is absolutely ridiculous. Protecting privacy? No, just making life difficult for small business owners who have enough red tape to jump through [...]
Is backing up your WordPress website a scary thought? Backing up doesn’t need to be complicated, here are three free WordPress backup plugins that help. My Top 3 Free WordPress Backup Plugins I’ve used these three plugins on various WordPress websites of my own, and currently have all three installed here on MLBO. A tad [...]
I'm really pleased to have Evelyn Cucchiara as a guest blogger today. I met Evelyn through the … [Read More...]
The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One … [Read More...]
Facebook Graph Search is rolling out to users as we speak. Unfortunately, small businesses simply … [Read More...]
“Being novices to IT, we hired Jan through a recommendation to help us with our web site(which is brilliant). Not only did she build the web site but she as mentored us through every step of the way, navigating the internet, encouraging us to joining different social networks. With out her help we would have been really struggling to cope with the requirements of a modern day business.
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Google Plus Comments For WordPress Blogs [Video]
Regular readers may have noticed a slight change to the blog. Yes, I have gone social and added Google Plus comments… Google Plus Comments Plugin The plugin I opted for was Google+ Comments by Brandon Holtsclaw. It’s available through the WordPress plugin repository. I’m still in two minds about keeping the plugin, so would love [...]
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