by JAK | Dec 13, 2018 | general business, industry futures, WordPress
Last week WordPress core was updated to version 5.0. A new version is generally no big deal and if you look at the release archive you can see this is number 12* for the year. Most of those are incremental updates prompted by performance or security improvements. In...
by JAK | Nov 1, 2017 | online marketing, WordPress
If you have just seen a message in your web browser that your site (or another) is insecure – relax. It probably just means that you don’t have an SSL certificate. Your site or the site you are visiting hasn’t had a sudden security fail – it is...
by JAK | Jul 12, 2016 | WordPress
Brute force login attacks on WordPress sites seem to be increasing. What I have noticed is that the number of IP numbers being used as an attacking forces seem to have grown in number and intensity. I look after a number of websites and occasionally I will get a...
by JAK | Sep 16, 2015 | WordPress
Every few months I get invited / asked to have a look at an existing WordPress site with a view to me taking over WordPress support. Often they need WordPress rescue. Typically someone has setup a site a few years ago and after a while the original developer is lost...
by JAK | Jun 19, 2014 | big ideas, general business, industry futures, WordPress
Last night Matt Mullenweg told the story of WordPress and how it had all happened. It was a kind of a one man solo theatre performance with a stream of anecdotes counterpointing each step along the journey. I have been lucky enough to hear Matt speak a few times over...
