I used to view buying a website like I view ordering a meal at a nice restaurant. Figure out what I want, figure out the price, and if the two concepts meet with no friction given the amount of money in my bank account, go for it. The meal is prepared and enjoyed, and then pretty…

I develop (and support) WordPress plugins. Recently a user of one of them had installed it and another plugin, and they were not playing nicely with one another, resulting in broken links on his site. The other developer was not responding to inquiries, and when I installed the offending plugin in my test environment, it…

Jim Richter probably didn’t wake up that morning planning to be the subject of international news. He was most likely just going to spend it like every other Thursday, being pastor of a small church in Johnson City, TN. I’ll bet there was coffee involved with his master plan. Instead, his website got hacked to…

Think of WordPress as a package delivered to your doorstep by the FedEx gal. Think of your WordPress theme as a supplemental package delivered by UPS. Think of your 20 different WordPress plugins as an stack of smaller packages delivered by UPS, FedEx, the US Postal service, a local courier service, and one or two…

I’m a web guy, and my site got hacked. There’s almost no explaining the sinking feeling when you log into your web site and find it hacked. But because I had a backup plan, getting my site back online and free of malware was simple and painless. It turned what would have been days of…