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 usually one: The Big Shiny Button!! Believe it or not, there IS a…
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 website, and in theory to reduce hosting costs,…
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 update from 4.4x to 4.5 this represents a large update for WordPress so…
Over the past year one of the main complaints we have had from new clients about their old web developer is regarding hosting issues. This is especially true for companies using WordPress as the platform behind their website. The main problems these clients suffer from are: Slow hosting Frequent and/or prolonged downtime Hacked websites causing…
Announced earlier in the year, Google stated that they were looking to improve their mobile results in a new upcoming update that would focus on the mobile friendliness of websites. Based on a comment from a Google employee it is speculated that the update will have a bigger impact on related search results than we…
Following our blog post about the security issues related to WordPress we thought it would be good to list some of the backup options available to WordPress users. Taking backups of your site is probably the single most important thing you can do with a website, we have had to deal with countless situations where…
Cases of high profile hacks appear to have grown exponentially over recent years and even the largest companies have been victim to major hacks. The following are just some of the major hacks of 2014: ICANN Hacking – ICANN’s announcement of the incident. Sony Hacking – An excellent Analysis of the event from the beginning. Home Depot –…
WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the most popular SEO plugins on the market with over 1 million active installs. Unfortunately yesterday WPScanVulnerability identified a security issue with it and issued the following statement The latest version at the time of writing (1.7.3.3) has been found to be affected by two authenticated (admin, editor or…
We are currently experiencing issues with out broadband as we are upgrading to Fibre optics. This will effect our phone system and email communications.
Another day and another happy client. We previously dealt with Andrea Long when she worked at Alternative Look, after moving to Leeds she ended up taking over a local business called the Hairoom, a specialist in wigs and hairpieces based in Morely, Leeds. Unhappy with her old web company she got in touch with us…