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WordPress 4.8 new widgets

published on June 11, 2017 by Mike Categories: WordPress #Tagged: 4.8, Wordpress

New widgets in the latest version of WordPress that shipped this weekend. Native support for Images, Audio, Video and rich text editing.

Dealing with wp_commentmeta when moving WordPress databases

published on August 30, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet, WordPress #Tagged: Comments, Databases, PHPMyAdmin, spam, SQL, Tips, Wordpress, wp_commentmeta

I’ve spent a few days moving WordPress sites around between servers recently. A relatively simple if not mundane task, copy all the files from one server to another using SCP in terminal then moving the database, link the two up and all is well. You can move SQL by using command line in terminal, but […]

WordPress installations under attack

published on February 11, 2014 by Mike Categories: Internet, Social Media #Tagged: Attacks, Brute Force, featured, FTP, Hacking, security, servers, Wordpress

I was checking my syslogs yesterday and I noticed a lot entries that started with the word ALERT and seemed to relate to someone or something trying to force their way in to some of my sites. Entries like: ALERT – tried to register forbidden variable ALERT – ASCII-NUL chars not allowed within request variables […]

Turriff Social Media Surgery

published on June 14, 2013 by Mike Categories: Internet, Social Media #Tagged: Blogging, Cake, Facebook, Social Media, Tea, Twitter, Wordpress

Mrs Doyle and a nice cup of tea

Yesterday while speaking to a client, I offered to do some social media stuff for people in Turriff. Nothing to in-depth just a chat, over a nice cup of tea, about anything social media related. I used the words Social Media Surgery and a few people have asked me what exactly one of those is, […]

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