Contact Form Spam Protection
Contact form spam is almost as bad as straight email spam. As a developer, I’ve tried many methods on how to help cut down on the spam. Today I am going to share with you a technique that actually works almost 100% on it’s own and since implementing it, works better than captcha! Jump to […]
Read more...Fully Custom WordPress Themes: A Developer’s Perspective
As a seasoned WordPress developer, I’ve had the pleasure of exploring various WordPress themes, and through my experience, I’ve come to appreciate the remarkable advantages of developing fully custom WordPress themes. In this article, I’ll dive into my reasons why a fully custom theme is often superior to a child theme, based on real-world experience. […]
Read more...The Dark side of WordPress Security
In 2015 I wrote a simple WordPress plugin that allows you to show your email address on the front end of your website but hide it from the source code aka obfuscate it, so it wouldn’t get picked up by spam bots. I called it Cloak Front End Email. The very original version only had […]
Read more...Top Tips to De-Google your life
Over the years I have been implementing more and more ways to De-Google myself. Recently had a Google experience that has pushed me to finally completely De-Google. After getting a new ISP, Google decided to lock me out of an email account that I have had and used with no problems for over 10 years! […]
Read more...Push Button SEO
You have all seen them, push button SEO reports. Even if it comes in as a bunch of spreadsheets, it’s more than likely a push button report. I get them from spam emails as well as clients who receive them from marketing companies. It’s generally the same thing, you have tons of errors that need […]
Read more...Wix Misinformed
In light of the buzz word misinformation. This post touches a little on what misinformation is and how it’s been running rampant on the internet for a very, very long time. TL;DR Wix.com is not a good platform for a business website. It’s horrible at search engine visibility and 95% of the information online is […]
Read more...Woocommerce Variation Threshold
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If your Woocommerce store has a lot of variations with specific attributes you might come across an instance when the options are not displaying properly. It’s showing everything instead of only assigned variation for an attribute. And yet when you pick a combination of something that’s should be hidden you get this message. Now a […]
Read more...Local Storage with selenium
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TL;DR Here is a quick way to add local storage for any website that is storing tokens inside local storage using python and selenium. What is local storage? A local storage token is a string of text that is stored on the client-side (typically within a web browser) and used to authenticate a user or […]
Read more...Automate your life with code
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One of my favorite things about code is you can automate some of your life, or just speed up the process on many tedious tasks. Here are some tips and ticks as well as my process Ive gone through to help automated many things in my life. In the beginning. My very first real attempt […]
Read more...4 must have firewall rules for WordPress
So many bots scanning your server even if you aren’t WordPress but if you are running WordPress here are 4 must have rules to help block attacks and save server bandwidth. First you need to rename your login url. A plugin will handle this for you, I recommend iTheme Security. The free version works fine. […]
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