WordPress

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 [...]

Free WordPress Install & Premium Theme

Want a free WordPress install? The good folks over at http://wpprogrammers.com create cheap fully installed WordPress Websites and are giving five of my readers a free Basic WordPress package that includes: WordPress Install and setup Free Premium Theme (over 60 to choose from) SEO pack Google Adwords ready (make some money!) and much more. Just click [...]

Show your Avatar in WordPress

So you want your photo (or avatar) to show whenever you leave a comment on a Blog or reply to a comment on your WordPress Website? Fortunately this is very simple to do. The few steps below will ensure that your photo automatically appears when you leave a comment on a WordPress Blog. How to [...]

Easily move a Feedburner feed to another account

As a WordPress Website designer and support person I often work with Feedburner. Feedburner makes tracking feed subscriptions simple as well as adding some really cool functionality such as the ability to subscribe to feeds by email and even enabling pubsubhubbub. I enable Feedburner feed subscription for the default WordPress feed on most Sites I [...]

How to make a Background Transparent but not Text

On a Website (WordPress or other) you may want to use opacity with some content background whilst having the text non-transparent. Until recently there hasn’t been a simple means of doing this; often an image would be used to facilitate making the background semi-transparent/opaque. Not only was this time consuming, but there were also the [...]