In our day and age, cyber attacks are becoming more common and hackers are finding new ways to breach businesses and systems, putting business data at risk. All businesses can mitigate some of these risks by following simple security procedures in order to protect themselves and their clients from any potential cyber attacks. Here are …
WordPress starts the year big with their latest 5.7 update bringing control to the user. Suitably named after Esperanza Spalding, a musical prodigy, WordPress looks to bring simplicity, vibrancy and control to the forefront in their first release of 2021. What’s New? “Bringing you fresh colours in the admin, simpler interactions in the editor, and …
So you have built your website and you now want make sure that you are being found for the right search terms. How do you do that?
Getting your shop online can be a really rewarding experience and can open your business to a whole new target market, but there are a few pitfalls to stay away from. 1. Platform The first thing that you will need to assess is the platform that you will use for your business. Do you use …
One of the things I love about WordPress is the ease in which you can mould it to achieve exactly what you need to run your business. WordPress, out of the box is a great platform to manage your page and blog posts, securely handle your users with individual usernames and passwords, not to mention …
History As the internet was starting and websites were building into the realms of e-commerce, we needed a way to ensure that payment details were transmitted securely between the website visitor and the web server. This is where SSL comes in. Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its now-deprecated predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),[1] are cryptographic …
Starting a blog is a great way to set yourself as a thought leader, build a following, and get found by search engines for what you do. I’d like to run through this from a high level to give you some food for thought and by all means book onto our WordPress Training Workshop to …
I was sat on holiday and, day dreaming to myself, end up at the logical conclusion that better web hosting won’t actually cost you anything. Now I’m not saying that decent business class web hosting will be free, but that making a conscious decision to choose the right web hosting company can get you a …
Backup, Backup, Backup. And then restore. First and foremost in making sure that your website is safe and secure, is thinking about the worst case scenario and if everything was to go wrong, working out how you would go about getting your site up and running as quickly and smoothly as possible. Remember that your …
Following WordPress 5.0—a major release which introduced the new Block Editor—5.1 focuses on polish, in particular by improving overall performance of the editor. In addition, this release paves the way for a better, faster, and more secure WordPress with some essential tools for site administrators and developers. Site Health With security and speed in mind, …
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just around the corner, one side of the personal information that you hold may be within your WordPress website. Back in April WordPress, as an organisation, started addressing the tools that each website administrator would need to address the operational requests that website users can submit to obtain …
Brilliant News! WordPress 4.8 has been released and it has some great new functionality to improve and ease your use of the software. From the release statement: Though some updates seem minor, they’ve been built by hundreds of contributors with you in mind. Get ready for new features you’ll welcome like an old friend: link …