POPI Act – what is it? Why is it important to me? Do I need to do anything about it? And what does it have to do with my website? Here I talk about the main ideas and action points you may need to take to meet requirements. Hooray! The clapping of hands! Yet another …
Underpants. They’re like masks. And they’re also like user accounts for your WordPress website. Here’s how to keep ’em (and I mean the user accounts here) clean and safe. Assign user roles You wouldn’t share your underpants or your mask, that would be plain revolting. Same applies to WordPress user accounts. If you have …
With apologies to William Shakespeare. When I was born, my father’s family insisted on giving me a family name. My mother put her foot down rather firmly and named me Anzelle instead. Waaaay better (thanks, Mom!). Anyway, for many years I considered my name terrifically unique. Well, until a couple of years ago. Occasionally, I …
What if your website got breached? What would that cost you? I can almost hear you think: “We’ve never been hacked, and it probably won’t happen to us.” Here’s an interesting statistic: about 30 000 websites get hacked A DAY. Let that sink in for a moment. According to WebARX, they’re mostly small business websites …
Right now, the media is hyperfixated on coronavirus matters. It’s almost a deluge of information What does any of this have to do with websites? Well, with all the mask-wearing and ‘be wise, sanitise’ visual cues around me, I was reminded that tech can get infected also and websites get viruses too. Recently, WordPress sites …
Warning labels. A couple of years back, a photo went viral of a takeaway coffee cup with a warning label in three languages (apologies to sensitive readers, skip over this paragraph if it might make you wince): “Avoid pouring on crotch area / Ne pourex pas dans l’area de oolala / Nein droppen ze haut …
Why you should keep your WordPress platform, plugins & themes updated regularly Is your site running on the latest version of WordPress? Is it safe to update your WordPress site? Let’s put it this way. If you don’t update your site to the latest version of WordPress, two things will happen eventually. Firstly, your site …
What on earth is PHP and why is this important to your WordPress website’s loading speed and security? What’s PHP? It is simply a coding language all WordPress sites are built on. The particular version of PHP is normally set by your hosting server and although keeping your WordPress theme and plugins up to date …
