Wil Brown’s Blog Posts
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14 Things You Must Do Before Launching Your Website
Follow these 14 critical steps for launching your website perfectly, fully optimised for high search engine rankings that will kill your online competitors.
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How to Use URL Parameters to Pass Data to WordPress
Here’s how to pass data to your WordPress website using custom URL parameter strings, useful for your marketing campaigns or affiliate marketing click backs.
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Why You Should Never Change the GUID but Maybe Sometimes
GUIDs are unique identifiers for WordPress posts. Changing the GUID can cause issues with apps like RSS readers. But sometimes its OK to change them.
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Changing WordPress’ default table prefix does nothing to enhance security
There’s a myth that changing the WordPress default table prefix will enhance your site’s security. It does not! In fact it can be dangerous to do so.
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How to fix the WordPress White Screen Of Death
Sometimes when updating WordPress the screen goes blank AKA The White Screen of Death. Learn what it is, how to fix it and get your site back up again.
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Securing your site against XML-RPC attacks
Should you secure your site by deactivating the XML-RPC service? It may come at a cost to your website! Let’s find out some more.
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Get your site SSL ready for Chrome 62
Starting this October 2017 the Chrome browser version 62 will start to mark all non secure web pages as “Not Secure” in the browser address bar. Get your site ready for SSL now.
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Why Simple Character Substitution for Passwords is Now a Pile of 5h1t
Password management guru Bill Burr says we’re all doing passwords wrongly. He regrets his advice of 15 years ago. Find out why?
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11 Things You Can Easily Sell With WooCommerce
On-line selling isn’t just about shipping physical products. There are many different ways make money on-line using WooCommerce. Here are a few ideas.