Everything is an Experiment
Brute force attacks are a big problem for many WordPress websites. If you haven't experienced one of these yet, count yourself lucky.
I was having issues on a client's website last week and the problem turned out to be a brute force attack.
So, I thought I'd post some information on these brute force attacks and share a plugin I wrote to prevent them. [Read more…] about A new tool to stop brute force attacks on WordPress
Well it was a great week … After almost 2 years of development we just released a new WordPress Membership Plugin called MemberPress.
MemberPress is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily accept payments for access to your content. So if you're in the content business (wether it be serial / blog-style content, e-books, software, design files, tutorials, etc) then I think you're gonna dig this thing. [Read more…] about Introducing MemberPress!
I've always been somewhat disappointed with the available options for running WordPress locally (not to mention the lack of functionality making every WordPress site slow). Generally, there are pros and cons to each method (MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP, native, self-compiled, Fink, Homebrew, etc) … but they've taken too long to setup, don't allow for enough configuration options (or in most cases allow me to run multiple WordPress websites at the same time) and leave unused config files and data deep inside my computer when I decide to uninstall. Vagrant is a new way of approaching this setup and seems to solve all of the issues I've had in the past when trying to get a local environment up for WordPress.
Vagrant makes it easy to run a full virtual linux (or Unix) server on your local machine … kind of like you'd run windows on a mac using VMWare (only with much less RAM & CPU being drained on your local machine).
Vagrant isn't always used to run WordPress locally (obviously, it has many…many other uses) but I've found that one of the main ways I use Vagrant now is for running a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) server locally … which I then run WordPress on.
Who do you know that is writing a blog for their business and doesn't want to make money? Stupid question huh?
We all know the best fix for this — get some ads up on your site, right? Have you tried doing that? There's all kinds of HTML to copy & paste, then you have to figure out how to put the ads on the sidebar of your site (or other places) and then figure out how to rotate ads — trying to manage ads manually can be an absolute nightmare — gah.
Well, my good friends, Brandon & Jeff over at PixelJar have now created a plugin that is in my opinion the perfect addition to WordPress for displaying, rotating and tracking ads on your website — its called AdSanity. [Read more…] about AdSanity: The BEST Way To Display and Rotate Ads On Your WordPress Website
Guess what? Today Affiliate Royale is live. Finally!
In a nutshell, Affiliate Royale is a full Affiliate Program for your products that runs on your WordPress website — it just installs like any other WordPress plugin and is easy to get working with your shopping cart.
Anyway, go check out this awesome, new WordPress plugin over at http://affiliateroyale.com
Oh yeah, as promised we're offering a special deal on it for the launch, but you know that won't last long … so don't wait, get over there asap.
Today we released Pretty Link version 1.4.56. It fixes numerous bugs including:
We recommend that all Pretty Link Lite & Pro users upgrade to 1.4.56.
Reports about this release that have been coming in from users this morning have been very positive … so you have no excuse but to upgrade …
This morning Pretty Link disappeared from the WordPress.org plugin repository because it didn't comply with a new, apparently undocumented policy that doesn't allow plugins to cloak links. Pretty Link wasn't the only plugin affected by this policy change, wordpress.org removed all plugins from the repository that allowed users to cloak links.
I've been working with the guys at wordpress.org this morning to get Pretty Link back on the repository. The only way to do this was to remove link cloaking, pretty bar and pixel tracking from the Pretty Link Lite versions 1.4.51 and beyond.
Here are the facts you need to know about this significant change: [Read more…] about Where Did Pretty Link Cloaking and the Pretty Bar Go?