This article will cover steps on what to do if your WordPress site has been hacked and how to recover your site. This is a general outline of what to do. If you’ve tried these steps and still need further help, reach out to a local WordPress developer or get in touch with us for …
Whenever I stumble across a great looking site, the first thing I check is what technology is used to build this beautiful site. If it’s built with WordPress, I then try and find out what WordPress theme the site is using (unless I am familiar with the look of the site). There is this useful website that …
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Everyone hates spam and even though creating a honeypot for an html form may help it’s not the ‘be all and end all’ of anti-spam and some bots may work around some honeypots but hopefully this example will help decrease your spam count. For the sake of this being such a quick and easy implementation, I …
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Loading a jQuery snippet to your WordPress site shouldn’t be difficult and I noticed online that this type of tutorial didn’t exist – maybe I’m just terrible at Google. This mini-tutorial will allow you to post JS or CSS to your WordPress website, the principle will stay the same. This type of method to adding …
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Johannesburg had it’s first WordCamp today (18 – 19 November 2016). I have had the privilege to present a talk to the South African WordPress community on how to get help within the WordPress ecosystem. You may view the slides here – wordcamp-johannesburg-2016 If you were at WordCamp Johannesburg 2016, get in touch with us, ask …
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I recently got a query about changing some text in our plugin (When Last Login) and this tutorial will show you exactly how to do this using the built in ‘gettext’ filter. We will be changing the word ‘Never’ to ‘User has not logged in yet’. So first of all, I like to ensure that …
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