by Joe Miles | Mar 20, 2015 | We recommend, Training materials
This week’s post about a recommended plugin is really a two-in-one… we’re also announcing a new, free plugin that should be useful to everyone. It’s a new two-factor authentication plugin that we’ve just released on wordpress.org. Two factor authentication What’s...
by Joe Miles | Mar 18, 2015 | Off Topic
Stats tell us that most of you are using Google Chrome. Chrome’s web developer features are great for getting things done. However, I’ve recently switched back to Firefox for most use. Both are excellent browsers these days. If you’re also on Firefox, and haven’t yet...
by Joe Miles | Mar 13, 2015 | Off Topic, We recommend
This is a bit of a minority interest… but if you provide plugins for others, then you might be interested in a new free plugin from our sister company. It’s the “Simba Plugin Updates Manager”, available for free from here in the wordpress.org repository. What does it...
by Joe Miles | Feb 27, 2015 | Training materials
Want to sign up for the fortnightly UpdraftPlus newsletter? It contains a mix of UpdraftPlus news, useful training materials for WordPress developers and site-owners, and general WordPress news. If you want to give it a try (you can de-subscribe at any time), then...
by Joe Miles | Feb 25, 2015 | We recommend, Training materials
Next up in our occasional “recommended plugin” series is… “Redirection”. It does one thing, and does it well – something that always appeals to site builders looking to develop knowledge of a set of tools that can cover them in any common situation. What does it do?...
by Joe Miles | Feb 4, 2015 | Training materials
Understanding how WordPress installs plugins is a great piece of knowledge: 1) it’s actually fairly simple, and 2) it can get you out of a lot of problems. In this article, we’re going to learn about that, and see what we can do with it. Of course, you should try all...
by Joe Miles | Jan 27, 2015 | We recommend, Tips and tricks, Training materials
We’re not doing this every week; only some… but this week’s “plugin of the week” is BruteProtect. BruteProtect adds brute-force login protection (i.e. password guessing protection) to your WordPress website – with a particular twist. Most brute-force login protection...
by Joe Miles | Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you had a problem posting a support request using our paid customers support request form over the last 24 hours, then we apologise – please try again now. It looks like our webserver was experiencing random failures on this particular page. We are still...
by Joe Miles | Jan 23, 2015 | Tips and tricks, Training materials
You’ve very likely heard about PHP many times, if you’re running a WordPress site… but, do you know what it is, and why it matters? PHP is the programming language that WordPress, like most websites, is written in. It has its share of defects, but has the huge...
by David Anderson | Jan 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the latest version of MetaSlider Pro we’ve added the ability to use HTML5 video backgrounds on Layer Slides. Video backgrounds have been become popular recently, with sites like Spotify and PayPal using them to great effect. We’ve updated our...
