Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Do you feature videos that you’ve created yourself on a personal or company blog?
If so, you might think it’s best to host those videos right on your blog server instead of elsewhere on the Internet.
Well, there are several important reasons why you would probably be better off hosting your videos on Youtube instead: [Read more…]
Question from Patty J.: I recently bought an SSL certificate for my WordPress blog and my web host installed it for me.
I then installed the Really Simple SSL plugin and that took care of the redirects from http to https as well as most of the mixed content issues.
But Firefox is still blocking parts of my pages that it claims are still trying to load from insecure sources.
I’ve looked my pages over and I can’t find anything that appears to be loading from an insecure location. Everything on the page appears to be loading from URLs starting with https instead of http.
When I load the pages in Chrome it shows the green padlock with no warnings. It’s only Firefox that’s not cooperating.
I’m pulling my hair out here. How can I find out what Firefox is blocking for being insecure so I can fix it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Harry B.: Maybe you can answer a question for me Rick. I’ve been wondering about this for a long time.
About three years ago I paid to have a website built for me, and the lady built it using WordPress.
In all this time I’ve never been asked to pay anything to keep using the WordPress program.
I was just wondering how they make their money since they let us use their software for free?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
WordPress blogs are constantly being targeted by hackers, and the problem is getting worse all the time.
It seems that the miscreants of the world have nothing better to do than try to make the lives of others miserable while exploiting the hard work of legitimate bloggers to “earn” some ill-gotten cash for themselves.
Keeping a blog safe from hacking attempts gets more difficult every day as the hackers become ever more determined and sophisticated.
That being said, there are a number of things you can do to help keep your blog safe and secure, and I will discuss a few of them in this post.
Here are 9 tips that can help prevent your WordPress blog from getting hacked: [Read more…]
As a blogger, I know how important it is to have lots of people visiting your website.
After all, a site that no one ever visits is pretty much useless, especially if you hope to make money with it.
If your website is new you’ve probably spent some time searching Google for ways to increase the number of visitors you have coming to it on a daily basis. And if that’s the case, chances are you’ve come across a service called TrafficSwarm.
In this post I will explain how TrafficSwarm works and give you my honest opinion about whether you should use it or not. [Read more…]
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