WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Hacked

If you visited this site yesterday, you’ll have found it in a bit of a mess. While the content was displaying, there was zero formatting and no active theme.

Initially, I thought this was a caching issue – some cached corrupted files being loaded – so I cleared out the local cache. Nope, that wasn’t the problem.

For additional site security, I use Cloudflare which filters out a lot of bad traffic and such. It also has its own caching …

WordPress SSL Secure

UPDATE: As of July 2018, the Chrome browser is now placing a Not Secure label to the left of http:// format web addresses in the browser address bar. That should be an incentive to get your site upgraded to use the https:// prefix, as well as the additional reasons below…

If you’re a member of Wealthy Affiliate, my #1 recommended affiliate-marketing course, you’ll have received an email from founder Kyle about the introduction of free SSL certificates for …

Email List Building Techniques Site Menu

Something that was annoying me on one of my sites was that custom links I’d set up in my main navigation menu would open in the same tab, replacing my site in the tab.

I prefer links to external sites to open in a new tab.

I thought that this opening in the same tab thing was a peculiarity of WordPress.

Turns out you can indeed open any menu links in a new tab if you want to.

There’s a …

Post Gopher

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WP Toolkit Developer's Edition

If you build lots of WordPress blogs for yourself or, especially, if you build sites for sale or for clients, one issue you’ve probably come up against are the licensing rights for some of the themes and plugins you use.

Not every commercial theme or plugin can be included in a handover of a site to a new owner. In some cases, the new owner is required to buy their own license for a theme or a plugin or two.…

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Product: Cloud Defender
Product Type: WordPress security
Price: $15.78 (dime sale – price rises by $0.01 every 10 sales)
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My Rating: 4.8 out 5

The Video Version of This Review:

The Cloud Defender Overview

In my previous post, I talked about why securing your WordPress site is vitally important these days.

I also mentioned the increasing importance of using SSL certificates both …

WP Comparison Table: Comparing Amazon Products

Review sites all have one thing in common – they post reviews about multiple products in their niche. But maybe what a visitor wants is to This WordPress plugin is on my list of things to buy. It creates professional looking comparison tables and makes the whole process much less onerous. Tables like these:

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WordPress Hacked
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If you’ve read this blog, or the posts on my Top Design Blogs service blog, you’ll know I bang on about WordPress security quite a bit.

Yet, webmasters don’t seem too concerned that their WordPress blogs are potentially vulnerable to being hacked. I offer a free service over at Top Design Blogs that tests 8 potential weaknesses on a blog but few webmasters take me up on the offer.

So is there an attitude out there …