February 7, 2013
by Neil T
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Despite the fact that it’s been almost two years since I switched to WordPress, I’m still learning new things about it. For example, I always assumed that WordPress needed to use FTP to update itself, and to install and update … Continue reading
January 10, 2013
by Neil T
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There’s an interesting read at VentureBeat called How to take back control of your own social networks, to which the simple answer is ‘run your own blog’. That way, you own all of the rights to what you write, third … Continue reading
November 22, 2012
by Neil T
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If you use self-hosted WordPress (as opposed to WordPress.com), then you should really consider installing Jetpack for WordPress, if you haven’t already. Jetpack is essentially a suite of plugins rolled into one package, which add many extra features to your … Continue reading
August 30, 2012
by Neil T
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A few weeks ago I wrote about enabling two-factor authentication on several web sites, and yesterday LifeHacker published a similar article with a few more sites. One of these is WordPress – not wordpress.com, but self-hosted blogs, as it turns … Continue reading
August 8, 2012
by Neil T
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Yesterday I talked about what can happen if someone is able to break into your iCloud account, and also the importance of two-factor authentication, which may have thwarted that specific attack had the account owner enabled it on his Google … Continue reading
August 2, 2012
by Neil T
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Do you have a WordPress blog? Do you have an administrator account called ‘admin’? If you do, please log into phpMyAdmin (or whatever client you use to access your MySQL database) and run the following SQL query: UPDATE wp_users SET … Continue reading
June 29, 2012
by Neil T
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying out the new official Facebook plugin for WordPress, although at the time I couldn’t get it to work. Facebook have since issued an update to the plugin which now … Continue reading
June 17, 2012
by Neil T
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I’ve made a few changes to the site, and thought I’d share them with you. WordPress 3.4 It’s probably of little surprise that I upgraded to WordPress 3.4 upon its release last week. Not that there are really any useful … Continue reading
April 30, 2012
by Neil T
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Earlier this month I posted about my attempts at boosting traffic to this blog using various technical interventions, and so far, when combined with a couple of popular posts (my guide to improving iPhone battery life and cloud storage service … Continue reading
April 6, 2012
by Neil T
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This past week has seen a big increase in the amount of comment spam that has been submitted to this site. So far, all of it, bar one, has been caught by Akismet, however, normally a lot is caught by … Continue reading