After a flood of spam originating through our WordPress Contact forms with No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, we needed a fix. This excellent article by barn2.co.uk shows 6 Ways to Stop Contact Form 7 Spam in WordPress The 2 we liked and are now trying are: 1. Quiz Simple quizzes are becoming a popular way to combat […]
Support Ticket Frustrations
I find it extremely frustrating when I receive a response to a ticket that does not include my original message. Generally we’re talking about support tickets, where the customer requests a service (ie rectify). I understand the need for business to provide a ticketing system to manage support services but so many are frustrating, slow and […]
Don’t Let Your Website Be Marked as “Not Secure”
SECURITY NEWS | FEBRUARY 2018 All types of website: business, freelance, creative, agency or blogger will need SSL. Unless you want Google telling visitors that your website is NOT secure, then you must have a security certificate. From July 2018, Google Chrome will display a warning message on HTTP web sites with any type of […]
How to change .htaccess IP address
This explains how to update an IP address in a .htaccess file. 1. Login to cpanel (hosting control panel). 2. Go to File Manager 3. Select public_html (left side navigation), displays all folders & files 4. Highlight (left click) .htaccess (first file under folders). If you cannot see the file, go to Settings (top right […]
Backslash PHP Issue Resolved
A previously good working edit form starting adding a backslash ( \ ) before every quotation character ( “ ) after save. Before Save = src=”file.jpg” After Save = src=\”file.jpg\” I discovered the cause was located in a php.ini file (root – public_html) The cause = magic_quotes I turned [magic_quotes] OFF and it stopped adding the backslash magic_quotes_gpc […]