Windows XML-RPC Under Attack! Once again, we find a perpetual weak spot in the WordPress ecosystem as the target of a large-scale attack hitting sites around the world. The XML-RPC tool is vulnerable because it is one of the few methods that accept external communication, allowing pingbacks/trackbacks to post, as well as allowing website owners […]

Optimizing Your Web Design Work According To Nature If you are designing sites, graphics, or artwork, you need to understand how the Golden Ratio (aka “divine proportion” or aka “Fibonacci numbers”) plays a role in determining eye appeal. The golden ratio also is called the golden mean or golden section (Latin: sectio aurea). Other names […]

Every single visitor and bot that visits your site uses your precious server resources to serve up pages.  That’s great when they are REAL visitors with GOOD intentions – or real GOOGLEBOT – but, unfortunately, nefarious visitors can soak up resources too.  There’re a lot of different ways to tackle problematic bots, but today I’m […]

Optimizing TTFB “Time To First Byte” is an optimization metric that tells you the time your browser spends waiting on the web server to send back the data. A number of factors go into the TTFB but many of those points can be improved on through optimization. It is worth noting though that optimizing TTFB […]

CleanTalk Anti-Spam PluginFor WordPress Recently, I fired my spam control plugins.  Even with a rather elaborate setup, there was just too much getting through, and too many false positives.  False positives are when a valid post by a real person lands in the spam bin… you have to go dig these out. It’s time-consuming. And […]

Now It’s A PostNow It’s A Page! As WordPress users, we tend to think of posts and pages (rightly) as their own separate things. Generally speaking… Posts are for chronological and time relevant items and generally used for community discussion. Pages a for long term evergreen content and often used with comments disabled. Posts also […]