by Charles Oropallo | November 12, 2021 3:17 pm | Technical Help, Web Hosting
One of the harder parts of error hunting in a WordPress site can be debugging the PHP code. Fortunately, WordPress comes with specific debug systems that can simplify the process. The debug systems also standardize code across the core, plugins and themes. I’ll...
by Charles Oropallo | October 24, 2021 1:23 am | Technical Help
This article explains how to change the hostname and IP address of a Linux CentOS 7 server. There are two basic facts about subnets that are in play when making these particular changes: The hostname is the name a computer (or server) goes by on the network. Each...
by Charles Oropallo | October 4, 2021 5:12 pm | WordPress
This is a very brief informational post just showing by example of a change to the background in a page. I wanted to make changes to end up with the same (or a similar) background on most of the website’s pages. I also wanted the background to be a muted version...
by Charles Oropallo | October 1, 2021 10:44 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Everyone wants their web pages to come up lightning fast. There are several reasons they might not – ranging from your internet connection through the number of other users in your area or even the weather conditions – to name but a few. Despite that,...
by Charles Oropallo | July 31, 2021 10:53 am | Technical Help
There are many changes happening in Debian versions, so software suspend (sleep) works in various ways in the different versions. For obvious reasons, the software suspend cannot be allowed to happen on servers that are supposed to be available 24/7. After software...
by Charles Oropallo | July 27, 2021 5:32 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
The spamming of web forms has grown tremendously over the past several years. Spamming forms is inevitable with any forms on websites. This has little or nothing to do with where your website is hosted. The problem The main problem is that even though it is, and has...
by Charles Oropallo | July 25, 2021 4:59 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Keeping your site cleared of spam comments will also allow it to operate more efficiently. Getting spam comments has nothing to do with your web hosting. It has to do with setting up what is necessary to mitigate the spammers. This will help immensely with keeping...
by Charles Oropallo | July 24, 2021 3:24 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Within days of this writing, the Twenty Ten theme was updated. The fact that this theme is still kept up is a very good thing from a security point of view. The update included what appeared to be more extensive uses of blocks in WordPress. In my opinion, WordPress...
by Charles Oropallo | July 6, 2021 5:33 pm | Email, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
by Charles Oropallo | July 4, 2021 1:45 pm | COVID-19, Q & A, Random Info
A July 4th note from Charles Here we are at the 4th of July of 2021 already! The loss of life suffered in 2020 was horrendous. Yet there are people who still do not think in terms of helping their fellow citizens – and themselves – by being vaccinated. The...
by Charles Oropallo | June 11, 2021 12:13 pm | Email, Technical Help
This post explains about setting up your Microsoft Hosted Exchange or Office 365 email account using the Outlook for iOS app available from the Apple Store or the built-in iOS mail app. Setting up email with Outlook for iOS Open Outlook for iOS. You’ll see an...
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 or non-profit 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...
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