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WordPress Under Brute Force Attack: Targeting Admin Usernames

May 5, 2016April 12, 2013 by Mari Kane

We learned from Ars Technica that an all-out “Brute Force Attack” was being committed on WordPress sites by a powerful Botnet that attacked US banks last year. The botnet, they said, is seeking out, among other things, default user names like “Admin.”

WordPress Theme Documentation Needs Page Diagrams

June 6, 2019April 2, 2013 by Mari Kane

This is the kind of diagram I wish theme developers would include in their documentation. To quickly and easily see where to put data in a new theme would make life so much simpler for WordPress users.

CSS 101 at Vancouver WordPress Meetup

April 4, 2017February 19, 2013 by Mari Kane

The Vancouver WordPress Meetup on Valentine’s Day was a sweet one, and not just because of the smorgasbord of chocolate treats provided by a full house of attendees.

Morten introduced this meetup as being recorded online using Google+ Hangouts, which deepened the voice levels, but otherwise provided a better record than my iPhone.

Jill Binder, Web Coder Who Speaks Multimedia, gave us a short tutorial in working with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the code that controls the look of a WordPress site.

Why I Downgraded WordPress

June 6, 2019January 8, 2013 by Mari Kane

I downgraded WordPress 3.5 to 3.4.2 despite the scary warning on the WordPress Release Archive page, which says, “None of these are safe to use, except the latest in the 3.5 series.”

And you know what? It worked. Fear be gone!

The Magical Media Manager of WordPress 3.5

April 19, 2019December 17, 2012 by Mari Kane

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At the Vancouver WordPress Meetup the week before last, we got an eyeful and earful about the new WordPress 3.5, the Elvin Jones version.

About 50 people gathered at The Network Hub and we heard host Morten Rand-Henriksen and Joachim (Joey) Kudish from WordPress.com tag-team through the many changes.

Posts are to Pages as Apples are to Oranges

May 5, 2016October 22, 2012 by Mari Kane

One of the biggest sources of confusion to new WordPress bloggers is the difference between Posts and Pages. They look similar on the front end, their Editor page looks the same on the back end, they both start with a “P” – what’s the difference?

In six words, Pages are static, Posts are social.

Pages

Pages are like old-time HTML sites used to be. They sit there and they tell you stuff. The most prevalent Pages are About, Contact, and Home. Pages only change when they are updated and they stay that way until the next time. They have no dates, no categories, and no tags. Pages are, in a way, self categorizing.