A Rose By Any Other Name….

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As we’ve stated before. Selecting a domain name is extremely important. A recent situation with a customer pointed out a corollary to this: Make sure you grab similar .com domain names while you’re registering your domain name. In this particular situation, the customer had a two word domain name. The second word was plural, the … Read more

Handy Method To Add Content

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One of the most important things you can do for your website is to generate lots of new and relevant content. Tragically, the one thing that is ignored by most websites is generating new content. You may not realize that you’re generating content every time to speak. If you’re doing a podcast, making a presentation, … Read more

Gain Control of a lost Google Analytics Account

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(In Theory) Supposedly there is (finally) a process for getting control of lost google analytics accounts. We’re in the middle of attempting this, so we’ll see where it goes. The instructions we’ve found are here: https://support.google.com/analytics/troubleshooter/7264014?hl=en&ref_topic=1009691#ts=7271146 and pretty much the same thing here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7268497#prove Part of the process is creating an analytics.txt in the web … Read more

Why No Padlock?

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Having problems with getting your website to run “https”. You’ve installed your SSL certificate. You’ve renamed your site to “http://” but you still just don’t get the padlock like you know you should. Why No Padlock? to the rescue! This tool will not only check your SSL certificate, but most importantly, it will scan the … Read more

What CMS Is This Site Using?

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Sure, as Website Psychiatrists focusing on WordPress sites, we can identify a WordPress site in 3.14 seconds. But on those occasions where are evaluating an non-WordPress site, it’s handy to know what engine a site is running on. Enter the extremely handy website: What CMS is This Site Using? Just give it it the website … Read more

Active Attack on Recently Patched Duplicator Plugin Vulnerability Affects Over 1 Million Sites

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A critical security update was recently issued for Duplicator, one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress ecosystem. Over a million WordPress sites were affected by a vulnerability allowing attackers to download arbitrary files from victim sites. We urge all Duplicator users to update to version 1.3.28 as soon as possible. We are detecting … Read more

Critical Vulnerability In Profile Builder Plugin Allowed Site Takeover

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Earlier this week, a critical vulnerability was patched in the Profile Builder plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability affected the free version available on the WordPress.org repository, as well as the commercial Pro and Hobbyist variants. According to the WordPress repository more than 50,000 sites are running the free version of Profile Builder, and our estimates suggest there … Read more

WP-VCD Evolves To Remain Most Prevalent WordPress Infection

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Wordfence update on WP-VCD WP-VCD is still infecting more new sites per week than any other active malware campaign. Even after publishing a paper on the campaign, Wordfence has yet to identify any meaningful change in the rate of new infections. And an excellent tip on monitoring your website: Periodically visit your sites from new devices and … Read more

WordPress 5.3 Released

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The release of WordPress 5.3 brings even more functionality and features to the Gutenberg block editor. This is an exciting continuation of the path that WordPress started with version 5.0. We’re ecstatic to see this commitment to eliminating the mess that has been caused by the proliferation of page builders. The consistency that had been … Read more