yes, that’s right. I was just as surprised as you would be too. I started up Outlook to check my emails this morning and I was schocked. my Inbox and Send Messages folders were there, but none of the sub folders that I use were there. What happened to them? Were they deleted? Were they hidden? Did some big alien monster get into my mail server and eat them all? Continue reading
I’ve just come into the office to discover that a clients WordPress site has been hacked. What made this one a bit different from what I’ve seen before is that this one didn’t completely take over the website and wasn’t immediately apparent from just viewing the site. Continue reading
I had a problem recently where a client needed to update their DNS settings so that they could get an external mail server working with their hosting account. This shouldn’t be a problem. All you need to do is set up the MX record to point to mail.domain.com and set up mail.domian.com to point to the Exchange server that they have in their office. This simple idea came unstuck when they couldn’t add in the A record for the mail server. Continue reading
WordPress has become one of the best-known blogging and CMS platforms today, and because of this there’s always people looking to exploit your WordPress site. Along with the normal security precautions that you’d always take, here’s another one. Continue reading
I’ve recently found out about a disturbing new exploit that’s happening with WordPress websites (just like this one). Some malicious code gets uploaded to your WordPress blog that basically redirects you to a site where the exploit root kit id downloaded. Continue reading
From time to time we all get a client that wants to move their website, or one that’s got a new website set up and wants to move onto that one. They all think that it’s a simple one-button job where we can just flick a switch and everything magically works just the way that it used to.
The truth is… that’s just not going to happen. Continue reading
I’ve had another problem using Cufon on a site. I have to say that I don’t think that this one is the fault of Cufon, or the WordPress plugin programmer - I think that it’s a general JavaScript issue.
The problem that I had was that I had to use two different fonts with Cufon to replace different tags on the site. What happened was that the tags were all being replaced, but they were all being replaced by one only one font, which was the last font that was loaded. Continue reading
I’ve just finished tackling what should have been an easy problem, but it turned out to be harder then I thought. Fortunately the problems were easily remedied when I found out what was actually wrong.
The problem was that a slider on a commercial WordPress theme that I am using was broken. It just threw a JavaScript error of:
f.easing[e.animatedProperties[this.prop]] is not a function
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Cufon is a really great little JavaScript script that lets you use pretty much any font on your website. I’ve mainly seen it used for replacing titles and headlines, and just making things look a bit more “pretty”. There’s a great plugin for WordPress sites that makes it easy to use. Most of the time… Continue reading
I had a job that needed me to get the content from the home page to display on a “static” home page template. As good as WordPress is, this is something that it really doesn’t allow for. Continue reading