How to put a smile on your face
I love smileys and emoticons, feel they go beyond the traditional puntuation, and help express the tone, scinerity, and sarcasm of the words, so they can be read as intended. So I […]
Tag: wordpress
Prevent WordPress Hacking
There’s been a long history of some bots trying to access this blog by trying to access the root & admin accounts & guessing the password, not sure why? This has caused […]
WordPress 5.5 Plugin Auto Update
I never much recognise the improvements that are rolled out with WordPress releases, but this one it truly useful; plugins now have the option to auto update 🙂 This closes a potential […]
xmlrpc.php attacks
I received heads up this morning from a friendly Twitter user (@adrianhungate) that my site was down and they were generously offering help to restore. Rebooting the Ubuntu VPS brought it back […]
Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress
Eek! received an email that Google couldn’t get to my robot.txt file, checked the WordPress part of the site, to find the error: Error Establishing a Database Connection. I was preparing to […]
MySQL Workbench saves the day and space
No luck gaining access the site for a couple of days, no biggy, an email exchange later & my ip is apparently added to the firewall exclusion & I’m in… I thought […]