by Charles Oropallo | March 27, 2021 1:11 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
The WP Forms plugin for WordPress is fairly popular and one of the plugins I like using for handle form inputs on websites. I especially like being able to tie in Google RECAPTCHA into it which greatly reduces form spam. Form spamming has become big business. Apps...
by Charles Oropallo | January 22, 2021 5:00 pm | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam, Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are “all set”. Many think they don’t have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that...
by Charles Oropallo | January 3, 2021 12:07 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
I wanted to create a custom HTML code function, so made one that will generate a line feed. I tested it to neaten up the output from my favorite WordPress statistics plugin: WP-Statistics by Verona Labs. This shortcode gives the ability to add line feeds to WordPress...
by Charles Oropallo | December 15, 2020 1:43 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Akismet provides a convenient and free way to protect your personal WordPress site or blog from spam. Many times we’d like to allow comments to be left on our WordPress site. The hassle with this can be the tremendous amounts of spam that come through the forms...
by Charles Oropallo | November 15, 2020 3:05 pm | Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
Every piece of popular software gets updated over time. PHP is no different. PHP 7.4 is the latest version of PHP 7 at the time of this writing. It was originally rolled out November 28, 2019 and will receive security support until November 28, 2022. It also appears...
by Charles Oropallo | October 28, 2020 12:30 pm | Scams & Spoofs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer’s SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot...
by Charles Oropallo | September 8, 2020 1:51 pm | Email, Technical Help
On occasion, Microsoft Hosted Exchange or Microsoft Office 365 email users (or nearly any email users, for that matter) may have an input box pop up requesting that you enter your username or email address and your password. At times this can persist and become most...
by Charles Oropallo | September 2, 2020 12:00 am | Domain Names
We’ve published information in the past about domain names. Whether your domain name is for personal use or for your business, we hope you find the following tips to be helpful. Keywords Having words pertinent to your business in your domain are increasingly...
by Charles Oropallo | August 19, 2020 2:22 pm | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Technical Help, WordPress
The WordPress version 5.5 was rolled out sometime around the beginning of August. It’s developers boast there are 157 enhancements and feature requests and 307 bug fixes. Those may seem like high numbers – especially the bug fixes. However, WordPress is...
by Charles Oropallo | August 6, 2020 12:43 pm | Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
It’s important to keep your website secure! CharlesWorks uses DirectAdmin on most of its Linux based servers. The latest PHP versions offer the best security. The later versions also offer better speed as well. The CharlesWorks web servers are optimized to keep...
by Charles Oropallo | June 2, 2020 3:34 pm | Technical Help
It’s very convenient to place an icon on your desktop so you can click and go directly to a Zoom meeting. This will save you the time and hassle of looking up your regular Zoom meeting addresses. This set of directions was created on a Windows 10 workstation....
by Charles Oropallo | May 2, 2020 5:36 pm | Email, Technical Help
Say you’re going on vacation and won’t be able to reply to your emails for a couple weeks – setting up an autoresponder is a good idea – you can write a message that will automatically reply to anyone who sends you an email, for example:...
by Charles Oropallo | May 2, 2020 5:01 pm | Email, Technical Help
To begin, you must first have the incoming and outgoing server information from your Web-Based Email account. This information will be used in steps 7 and 8. Usually, this information consists of the following: 1. Email server (incoming and outgoing) is usually...
by Charles Oropallo | May 1, 2020 4:25 pm | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Technical Help, WordPress
In a WordPress site, one can upload the various photos to the website for use along with content to be displayed. The photos are placed into what’s called the Media Library in your site. From the Media Library, you can use them as needed in various places...
by Charles Oropallo | March 27, 2020 1:25 pm | Q & A, Technical Help
COVID-19 is dictating much of how we live our lives at this point. Most of us understand we are on the virus’s schedule – not ours. COVID-19 has dramatically changed lives in most communities. Working from Home Many who can do it are attempting to work...
