PHP is the programming language used behind 82% of the sites on the web, but it hasn’t really had a major release in over a decade with PHP 5 being released in 2004. Even PHP 5.5 is 4 years old. PHP 6 was abandoned due to various issues and finally, PHP 7 was...
The SEO industry has been watching an unconfirmed Google ranking update that seems to target more of the link quality aspects of the overall algorithm. A large amount of the chatter regarding this update comes from Black Hat communities which would suggest that it is...
Due to the nature of some of our software development work we have seen a growing demand for IT support. This covers a wide range of needs from general email support to fully fledged IT support including network and server installation. The demand for this service has...
Please note, none of our clients are vulnerable to the following security issue In the past few days WordPress has bene suffering from a serious security breach. Securi, a specialist website security company identified a severe content injection (privilege escalation)...
Google has announced that it is to boost its Safe Browsing programme by flagging sites which have been repeatedly listed as serving malicious code, unwanted programs, or hosting social engineering content. Launched in 2005, Google’s Safe Browsing system checks...
We have recently changed service providers with our phone system, unfortunately, with the way our old one was set up we were unable to port our number. Therefore our new office number will be 01253 963 016 All other details such as postal address and payments remain...
Following on from our previous post about free SSL on WordPress websites. Google has now announced that from January 2017 any website using an unsecure HTTP connection that has any form of password login or credit card forms will now receive an “Not Secure” warning....
Many posts on the WordPress.org forum refer to situations where site owners have upgraded the Upgraded Core of the site and then when they go back to it it’s gone or they’re facing the White Screen of Death. There could be any number of reasons for this, but there’s...
While this post is not necessarily relevant to most of our clients, we are always looking for ways to improve the quality of our service by researching methods to improve the way WordPress works. A common hosting option to help improve the load times of a WordPress...
Version 4.5 of WordPress, named “Coleman” in honour of jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.5 help streamline your workflow, whether you’re writing or building your site. With it being an...
