websites

How to choose the best WordPress Host

The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]

New Look WordPress Website

Mobile device access to Websites is growing very rapidly as a proportion of total visits to most Websites. Apple iPhone/iPad and Android devices in particular are driving this tend. I was amazed to read that PayPal saw ‘Black Friday global mobile payment volume increased six-fold (516%) compared to last year’. A Change of WordPress Theme [...]

Why Secure WordPress

A small proportion of my work is spent helping people recover from hacked WordPress Websites. Generally hacked Websites fall into one of two categories; targeted attacks or random/chance attacks. A client I assisted recently to recover from a hacked Site was the recipient of a targeted attack as he is a well known professor specializing [...]