Bill Forsyth III

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

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

Wordfence report on WP-VCD One of the most prevalent malware infections facing the WordPress ecosystem in recent weeks is a campaign known as WP-VCD. Despite the relatively long existence of the campaign, the Wordfence threat intelligence team has associated WP-VCD with a higher rate of new infections than any other WordPress malware every week since … Read more

How do you pick a good domain name? Sadly, many of the good domain names are long gone. So keep this thought in mind: Domain names ending with “.com” are still the highest “value” for your online identity. Be warned, if you settled on a “.net”, “.biz”, “.us”, or any of the other dozen top … Read more

If you need to manipulate text, Text Mechanic™ – Text Manipulation Tools has a boatload of tools to use, including: Add Prefix/Suffix into Line Add/Remove Line Breaks Count Characters, Words, Lines Delimited Column Extractor Find and Replace Text Line Combination Generator Remove Duplicate Lines Remove Empty Lines Remove Extra Spaces We even used Text Mechanic™ … Read more

Update 5/11/2023: DMARC analyzer has shut down their SPF lookup tool. Here’s another that will count the lookups: DMARCly. dmarc analyzer is, hands down, our favorite SPF checker. Not only does it validate the domain’s SPF record, it expands out all of the calls, AND tells you the count of the DNS lookups. One of … Read more

If you ever need to make changes to your database, but are afraid to mess with data stored in serialized arrays. Interconnect/IT’s Database Search and Replace Script in PHP is the tool for you. It’s an extremely powerful tool that will make a snap of performing search and replace actions on your WordPress databases. Be … Read more

If you have a WordPress website that is damaged, infected, or just won’t update, you may need to reinstall WordPress to get things kickstarted. Sometimes a site may be so out of whack that you can update/replace from the WordPress dashboard. If that’s the case, use this handy script to pull the latest version from … Read more