If you’re looking for beautiful WordPress themes, RocketThemes.com can be quite alluring. But as in Nature, beauty can be dangerous! My client needed to convert a large Joomla website to WordPress, due to Joomla’s security issues going so long without remedy, dwindling support for extensions and the bugs that pop up when abandoned extensions can’t be updated, etc. “Fortunately” her website’s RocketTheme Cerulean template was offered in...
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Clickable Image Slider I am a big fan of Elegant Themes and their “Divi” and “Extra” themes. But I’ve had one big complaint about Extra – the big slider images on the home page aren’t clickable. You have to click the little “title text” on the lower right. Well, this just isn’t intuitive for many users and you can lose visitors who assume your site isn’t working properly. To tell the...
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WHO WANTS TO HACK YOUR WORDPRESS WEBSITE? So you’re thinking, “Why would anyone want to hack my website?”. Here’s just a few reasons: 1 – Fun & Fame: Many amatuer hackers, including teens as young as 12 years old, just want the local notoriety. Some have “clubs” where they try to one-up each other on local business websites they can hack. 2 – SEO: A competitor, or hacker hired by your competitor can use your site to enhance...
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The Call: I get calls for help, from other web developers from time to time, thanks to my backend server and database experience. But this caller was different. He said he thought he might need a voodoo doctor or psychiatrist, but he was giving me “first shot” at the problem. While I pondered whether I would prefer being thought of as a voodoo doctor or a shrink, the caller explained that the “problem” was that his client was about to fire him...
Read More »Change a Site Folder Name in Multisite Have you ever setup a WordPress Multisite, then discovered one of the site names (i.e.: folder name) was wrong? No? Oh. Well, I did. But the good news is that I fixed it! Hey, it could happen. Maybe you get a better idea about how those site folders should be named, but the entire multisite is already setup. All you have to do is wave a magic wand (and run the script below). Let me explain a few things you need to edit in the...
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