Category: Wordpress

For those that haven’t yet come across it, Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin that let’s you easily add forms to your website.  The form on my contact page is created using Gravity Forms. It’s pretty useful in it’s own right – just as a contact form.  But I thought it might be useful to highlight some of the more exciting things that you can do with the help of…

Spam comments almost invariably go hand in hand with a blog.  I could talk for ages about how sad it is that individuals and groups of individuals are using their time in such a way. But we’re here to get a job done, and so this blog post is about solving the problem: Preventing spam comments even reaching you For any spam comments that do get through – how to…

To quote WordPress.org, “Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.” In other words, plugins add specific bits of functionality to your website.  Some examples: A contact form plugin – easily add a contact form…

Earlier this month, the BBC and others reported that “WordPress was targeted by a botnet [‘a network of hijacked home computers, typically controlled by a criminal gang’] of ‘tens of thousands’ of individual computers”.  Essentially, the culprits are attempting to brute force their way into WordPress websites (and other CMS-based sites, such as Joomla) by trying to guess common log-in credentials. In particular, the botnet is said to target WordPress…