Thanks to the open source nature of WordPress, anyone – including hackers – can look up the typical file structure of a WordPress website and know exactly where to start an attack. Fortunately, rearranging your core WordPress file structure is one method you can employ from your security arsenal to combat hacks and bolster your...
The WordPress login page isn’t very welcoming, is it? It’s more like a boring door in an alley than spectacular pearly gates. But how you initiate users into the secret part of your site matters, especially if you have something special in there. The portal through which people enter your world helps build anticipation and...
Let’s face it, writing emails is not fun. It’s time-consuming, requires rewrites, and proofreading. As a developer or freelancer, you’ve got more important things to be doing. So here’s some copy-paste templates to make your life easier. As someone who runs a web development business, you probably send emails daily. Which means you might spend...
Change your WordPress login URL and hide your wp-admin to outsmart hackers and prevent brute-force attacks… it’s easier to make your site harder to crack than you think! Let’s not kid ourselves. Even script kiddies know that all they have to do to make a WordPress site owner’s life miserable is to find the WordPress login...
The first time you step foot inside the WordPress dashboard, you can’t help but marvel at how simple it all appears to be. A management sidebar on the left. A clean interface to work within in the center. Notifications at the top. The WordPress Dashboard screen…a blank canvas with infinite potential! But once you start...
The images on my site looked decent and loaded quickly. I thought that was enough. Then I invested some time in making them Retina-ready and WOWZA, the upgraded photos looked phe-nom-e-nal! Now there’s no way I can go back. Retina devices have more pixels per inch, so they require high-resolution images to fill in those...
Just when everyone thought WebP images were done, they came back in a big way. WebP images are smack in the middle of their comeback story, now that Firefox and Microsoft Edge have recently started supporting WebP images. What is WebP? It’s is the best image format that no one has heard of, but that’s...
