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Is My WordPress Site Hacked? – Melbourne WordPress Developer Meetup
With information security being one of my passions, it was great fun to present at the Melbourne WordPress Developers Meetup this week. The topic I chose was “Is My WordPress Site Hacked? Identifying a...
View ArticleThe Best WordPress Membership Plugins
One of the most common questions I get asked when working on WordPress web development projects is “how can I add a membership system to my website?”. Luckily, there are many mature membership plugins...
View ArticleGoogle’s IP Addresses Dropping Connections
I recently had an issue with a popular online publisher not being indexed as frequently as they should have. They suspected an issue with their crawling or indexing. On closer inspection, it appeared...
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Shopify at the Melbourne SEO Meetup
Last night, as part of the Melbourne SEO Meetup – we ran a quick “site clinic”, where a few of us take a look at someones site and offer some constructive criticism on how they can improve their...
View ArticleImproving the WordPress Ecosystem with Tide
One of the reasons why WordPress is popular is because of the massive ecosystem that surrounds the project. The WordPress plugin repository currently lists 55,962 plugins – however the quality of...
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Professional WordPress Security at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup
Last month at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup, we held an open Q&A panel. The vast majority of questions were related to WordPress hosting and security, so I offered to do a talk on how to help...
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Inclusive Volunteering in Australia #WeAreAble
I recently caught up with a good friend of mine John Mckenna, who is a regular podcaster and commentator. As long as I’ve known him he’s been involved in lots of different online projects and being a...
View Article301 Redirect Old Domain to New Domain in Nginx
If you ever need to switch from an old domain name to a new domain name in nginx, you can use the following block: server { # 301 redirect for old to new domain server_name olddomain.com; rewrite...
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Does WordPress Work on Windows Hosting?
Short answer: Yes it does. However, WordPress is definitely better suited to Unix/Linux-based operating systems and web server stack. WordPress and Windows-based Web Servers While WordPress will run on...
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The Simplest Local Web Server
For local development or testing, most techies have their favourite environment such as Docker, VMware or XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP. However, I came across this and thought it’s worth posting about. It’s a...
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