Thanks for stopping by to read my blog. My name is Ruth Maude, a Toronto Web Designer. I blog mainly about WordPress, my favourite platform, SEO (search engine optimization) and about social media. Look for a new post on Monday morning. I appreciate your feedback, please add comments.
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Brute Force Attack on my WordPress website
For the past two weeks I’ve been receiving notifications from my web host that my website, dandelionwebdesign.com is under brute force attack! I’m not alone. According to HostGator, “there is an on-going and highly-distributed, global attack on WordPress installations across View Post
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Dynamic sidebar widgets
Want your pages, posts and/or custom post types to have different sidebars? The Dynamic Widgets plugin does just that. Dynamic Widgets gives you total control over where individual widgets appear throughout your site. The average WordPress user would be in View Post
View PostColumn Layout made easy
I’m always on the lookout for plugins that will simplify coding for our WordPress students. Here’s a plugin that we know you’re going to love. It’s called Grid Columns by Justin Tadlock. Sometimes you want to divide your page into View Post
View PostPush your WordPress posts to social media… it’s a SNAP
In the last week I’ve had three clients ask me how to automatically syndicate their blog posts to social media. They want to push the “Publish” button on their WordPress blog and automatically send their post to Facebook, LinkedIn and View Post
View PostIs anyone reading your blog? 10 tips to optimize Blog Posts for Search
Would you keep spending time writing and posting fabulous content on your blog if you knew no one was reading it? Bloggers usually blog so that others will read and engage with what they’ve written. While SEO (Search Engine Optimization) View Post
View PostEverything you need to know about changing WordPress Permalinks and 301 redirects
[New information added to Post October 1, 2012] In this post we’ll walk through changing permalink settings on a new WordPress Installation and how to do 301 redirects when changing permalink settings on an established site. Changing Permalink Settings on View Post
View PostBackup Buddy
BackupBuddy is a WordPress plugin that is an all-in-one solution for backups, restoration, and migration. Backup your WordPress site: BackupBuddy makes it easy to save either just your website database or a zip file of your entire WordPress site. Other View Post
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