by Joe Miles | Jun 26, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Tips and tricks, wordpress, Advanced Custom Fields, Blog, WPML
The Advanced Custom Fields and WPML plugins have both proven to be very popular with WordPress users. At the time of publishing this article, the WordPress plugin repository shows 1+ million active installation for the ‘Advanced Custom Fields’ plugin. For such a...
by Joe Miles | May 30, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Security, Backup, hack, wordpress
Whether WordPress or not, your website is potentially vulnerable to attacks. Recent reports have shown that Google blacklists thousand of websites containing malware and phishing attacks every week. Given how serious potential WordPress security breaches can be for...
by Joe Miles | Apr 26, 2019 | Other WordPress news
With the brilliant features and customisation options that WordPress provides, it’s no surprise that almost 33% of websites use WordPress CMS. However, potential security issues are something that can come back to bite site owners. In fact, out of the 8,000 hacked...
by Joe Miles | Apr 4, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Tips and tricks
When developing a plugin, it’s always good idea to make it translation ready as it could additionally reach audiences who do not use English as their first language. If you were wondering how important a translation option is, you can check the repository and see that...
by Joe Miles | Feb 5, 2019 | Other WordPress news, Security
If you are using Wordfence’s security scanner, and having it tell you that you have a virus “Backdoor:PHP/SEemf0Ji” in the file phpseclib/tests/Unit/Crypt/RSA/LoadKeyTest.php inside UpdraftPlus, then this is a false positive (*). You can compare your file with the...
by Joe Miles | Sep 6, 2018 | Other WordPress news
As part of Colour Blind Awareness Day 2018 I thought I would share my experiences. I first discovered I was colour blind at the age of 7 while in class at primary school, looking at a chalkboard and struggling to read the yellow writing. After this incident I went to...
