According to an announcement from Wordfence on December 23, 2015 there is a a botnet that is exploiting a vulnerability on Aethra modem/routers to do brute force password guesses on WordPress sites. For more information see their blog post: Aethra Botnet Attacks … Continue reading
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WordPress has Theme Unit Test data that contains all the different type of post/page data as long as quite a number of posts (39 published posts, and in total, has installed 41 posts) and pages (something like 10 or 15). … Continue reading
Accessibility for WordPress with Joe Dolson Joe talks about a cool Chrome plugin (NoCoffe) that can be used to simulate multiple vision disabilities. Joe uses a free screen reader called NVAD for testing. Using fancy JavaScript to add something to … Continue reading
Added the Wordfence Security plugin that I heard about on an episode of WPwatercooler back in December, 2013. It is a very comprehensive security plugin that covers a lot of real-time things. It works in conjunction with Acunetix Secure WordPress. … Continue reading
Based on an email that I received yesterday from Wordfence I have decided to install Wordfence WordPress security plugin on all WordPress sites. The email stated that they have detected a large distributed brute force attack that was underway on … Continue reading
I ran into an interesting problem where someone was not able to open up a Google Doc without having to log in. I was not able to recreate the problem with any of my browsers in or out of “private” … Continue reading
This morning I received an email from WinHost talking about a new verification of Whois data being required: We are writing to you today to let you know about some important changes to domain name registration procedures that could potentially … Continue reading
Today I was listening to one of the old WPwatercooler episode 14 that talked about their favorite plugins. An especially interesting one is Wordfence Security. … Continue reading
Today we ran into an issue where we couldn’t add any more menu items to a WordPress site. I found a post from a year ago where someone was having the same issue; they increased the max_input_var and max_memory values … Continue reading
WordCamp Chicago 2014 has slides up for the presentations from earlier this year. Checked the schedule for next year and it looks like it is over a time where I will be on vacation. While looking for when the Milwaukee … Continue reading
I was looking for an easy to use table plugin for clients and found the TinyMCE Advanced plugin that allows simple tables to be created and maintained in the visual editor! … Continue reading
I was working on some code that would build an XML list of books. I noticed that the plugin that parsed the XML wasn’t printing the title. While debugging the issue I found it was because the book title had … Continue reading
So you don’t want to take up page real estate to actually display the description of a product when you can just have the description display as a “tool tip” when the user hovers over the image of the item. … Continue reading
Captain Spider Web Designs is now under the umbrella of Captain Spider Technologies, LLC. As we evolved away from web site design to web application development and consulting we needed to change our name to reflect the new emphasis.