How the WordPress built-in search functionality could compromise your private content
…veryone, and we still see some webmasters relyin solely on weird urls like www.mysite.com/15gd45we and so on to try and “hide” their downloads. I investigated the (simple) solutions that could have been done to avoid such not desired actions. First of all, if we do not need search capabilities the best is to eliminate them. This can be done via some free WordPress plugins or by some simple code changes. It is easy to find just googling “Disable se…
Weekly WordPress Goodies – 01-11-2015
…ne, like is our case, is how the new EU VAT rules will affect them. It’s a complicated subject, but TorqueMag offers a fairly comprehensive introduction here. Security Sucuri released several bulletins, the most alarming of which is this one concerning VBSEO, the SEO addon for the popular vBulletin forum system. All the details are available here. If you really want to know how to implement good security practices, we strongly advice you to check…
Weekly WordPress Goodies 01-17-2015
…case study on how we had increased our CTR to the banners in some of our sites by 100%. Not specifically WordPress related, but useful or cool anyway And finally, a very useful infographic / cheatsheet published in SetupABlogToday.com that summarizes the sizes of all the social media headers, profile pictures etc. A must-have if you’re building your social media presence now: We hope you liked our weekly digest. Please, let us know in the comments…
Weekly WordPress Goodies 01-25-2015
…hare their interests. But many of us run blogs for profit, as part of an e-commerce site. In tha case, analyzing your competition is a very important factor for the success of your blog. Mattreport published a tutorial on how to reverse-engineer your competition in 10 minutes, with lots of useful tips. And last but not least, two useful articles we found in Torquemag: the key marketing metrics you should measure for your site, and 12 useful Google…