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  • Password – do’s and don’ts & patterns.

    Your password needs to be secure. Don’t underestimate the tenacity of the people trying to break your password.  Hackers will spend months writing scripts trying to hack your password. You really do need to make your password as secure as you possibly can. Spend some time and come up with a password pattern that you…

  • How to change the ‘Enter title here’ text in WordPress dynamically.

    The best part is all you have to do is copy the text below and past it in to the functions.php file of your child theme and it is done. From then on the ‘Enter title here’ text will be dynamically replaced through WordPress with something like ‘Add New Customer Here’

  • Developing a website

    Developing a website is a great way to quantify your business. In many ways developing a website is the same as developing a business plan with out all those annoying figures. During the process of developing a website you will need to work closely with your web developer to identify and quantify exactly what your…

  • Should you kill or terminate a misbehaving process.

    Have you ever had a linux process that was not running but when you try to start or restart the process nothing happens. You may find that you need to kill the process before you try to restart it because the process is actually still alive and not responding or not actually alive but the…

  • Is My Blog Down for Everyone or Just Me Site Checker!

    Have you ever tried to load your site or blog only to find it was down? Then you contact your service provider only for them to tell you that your site is up everything is running as normally. Your service provider tells you that the problem is with your connection or computer. Now you need…

  • How to copy and save an image from a flash website.

    Lets say there is an Adobe Flash website with an image that you want to show to your graphic artist. This image is the type of image you are after for your website. With a normal website you could just right click on a photo and you would have the option to either copy the…

  • Have your Jetpack and use Better WP Security too

    Recently I started using Jetpack for amongst other things the Publicize feature. Publicizeautomatically share your site’s posts on a range of social media networks when you publish a new post. The time this saves makes Jetpack a worth while plugin on its own. Not to mention all of the other features you get when you…

  • Google Analytics VS Awstats or Webalizer

    Analytics is the study and analysis of data that has been collected. In the case of web analytics that is easily achieved because of the extensive amount of data that is written to log files or sent to a third party server (in the case of Google Analytics) each time the server takes any relevant…

  • Update wordpress – WP Maintenance Mode – Internal Server Error – solution

    The problem After updating your WordPress and/or WP Maintenance Mode plugin your site is running normally for a period of time eg between 6 and 18 hours. Then at some random time all that any visitor is able to see is an Internal Server Error message. To anyone trying to get to your site, your…

  • Fail2ban for the uninitiated.

    What is fail2ban and why you should install it. In this day and age every web site owner or administrator is obsessed with improving the amount of traffic that flows to their site, even though little thought is given to weather or not, that traffic is of any use to their site or what harm…