Jan Kearney -Your Local Business Marketing Consultant
You know when you have one of those days when technology just does not want to work with you? I had one of those days this week and I thought I would share it with you. Even doing this stuff day in day out does not make me immune to brain farts or technology gremlins. [...]
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 [...]
WordPress installations worldwide are currently under a brute force attack. These attacks are targeting the most common username and password combinations. Is your WordPress Secure? If you still have your username set as admin, your WordPress sites are very much at risk. As a precaution, all WordPress users should change their passwords to a secure [...]
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 [...]
Talking about WordPress security isn’t particularly sexy or interesting. It is an important topic though. Just for a moment, imagine how it feels when: customers tell you your website triggers their anti-virus or firewall your blog readers email you to say they can’t access your site because Firefox has blocked it with a big red [...]
Pay with a Tweet is a social payment system where people can “buy” your information for the price of a tweet or Facebook share. It allows you to offer information or downloads in return for people tweeting about your offer. Once a reader has tweeted or shared your link with their contacts, they are given [...]
I’m often asked why I don’t recommend any free blog platforms for business blogging. Free blog platforms such as WordPress.com, Blogger.com (Google) and Tumblr.com to name just 3 are a great way to get a blog up and running in minutes. So why don’t I recommend free blogging sites? The Problem With Free Blog Platforms [...]
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 [...]
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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