Here at Gecko Gully we are big fans of the WordPress plugin IQ Block Country. We wrote about it last year. But recent upgrades have resulted in an IQ Block Country error message appearing within WordPress admin that might be alarming to some users – “The MaxMind GeoIP database does not exist”. Especially since it […]
OK, technical stuff time. If you want to be able to change where you send people when they click on a link, you might want to use a URL redirect. For example, you might be promoting product A on your web site (or in a press release, or wherever) but that product becomes no longer […]
[svpVideo v=1] Here is what you need to do if you are worried about SoakSoak WordPress Malware Virus Hack. SoakSoak appeared in mid December 2014. At the time of writing (17 December) it has already infected over 100,000 WordPress sites. It appears to be exploiting a vulnerability in RevSlider, and can infect not only the […]
Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Your CubeCart site is dead. REALLY dead. Back in 2007 I was building CubeCart sites. CubeCart was (then) pretty good. I had the free version, V3, and because I am a programmer I pulled it apart, worked out what it could do, and made a ton of changes to […]
(Figures current as of 21 June 2014 – source http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all – see that link for current data). WordPress is used by 60.2% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 22.4% of all websites. Versions of WordPress Version 3 is used by 98.6% of all the websites who use WordPress. Version […]
Now this is cool. I have been looking for something like this for ages. And it was right there under my nose the whole time. What this thing can do (among a lot of other things), is notify your Facebook page as soon as a new post is added to your WordPress site. Or, if […]
Did you see today’s podcast? The folks at WP Bacon ran a Google Hangout today with several founders and top folks from companies in the managed WordPress hosting space. It’s a great look at all the players and you get to hear their take directly from them. On there you hear from companies that are of […]
Let me start by saying that I know and like James Laws, founder of Ninja Forms, and also consider Carl Hancock, one of the guys behind Gravity Forms, a friend. So anytime you write a post about the products of friends, you navigate careful waters. But people still have to choose what WordPress form plugin […]
I have been working on a site that has a slow load time for the home page. The client was concerned that the slow loading was discouraging some visitors from becoming customers. To speed up WordPress was becoming a priority! Since I managed to get the load time down from 13.9 seconds to 3 seconds, […]
What are you doing to make your WordPress site stand out? As of July 2013, WordPress accounted for 18.9 percent of sites on the internet, or more than 70 million sites. If you haven’t customized and enhanced your WordPress site, the time is now. Simple tweaks to add advanced coding will help create a unique […]
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