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Stop Clickjacking by preventing your WordPress site from Loading in a Frame

June 6, 2017 9:00 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments480 Views

Clickjacking is a potential security risk caused by someone loading your website inside a frame on another website and making it appear as if the website is legitimate, however they will be hijacking interactions you make with that site, such…

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Prevent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) by escaping values in your WordPress templates

June 5, 2017 11:00 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments149 Views

If you are developing a WordPress theme or plugin then it is important to make it as secure and robust as possible. One way to do this is to properly escape values that you use in your project so that…

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Custom conditional statements around your WordPress enqueued stylesheets

June 2, 2017 8:48 amFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments155 Views
add_filter( 'style_loader_tag', 'matt_watson_style_loader_tag', 10, 2 );

You may be aware that you can add conditional statements around your WordPress enqueued CSS styles (such as <!–[if gt IE 7]><link …/><![endif]–>) to load the script for certain versions of Internet Explorer. As handy as this is, it doesn’t cater for all…

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Prevent users from sharing login credentials in WordPress

June 1, 2017 10:36 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments260 Views
WP_Session_Tokens::get_instance( get_current_user_id() );

As any Information Governance expert will tell you, sharing usernames and passwords is bad! Fortunately we can boost your WordPress security with this tip. Although nothing is as good as educating your users as to why they shouldn’t be sharing their…

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How to add items to robots.txt with WordPress

August 17, 2016 9:37 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments256 Views
add_filter( 'robots_text', 'disallow_pdf_index', 0, 2 );

If you wasn’t aware, WordPress auto-generates its own robots.txt file, and that there is a filter that you can hook into to allow you to add your own rules to the file. The filter in question is robots_txt filter. Using this information…

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The Bike-Shed Effect

August 17, 2016 8:33 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog0 Comments111 Views
Salvador Dali meets the Yorkshire Cost (on a bike)

Bikeshedding: Placing too much importance on trivial things. Today I found a blog post from a former Local Government colleague of mine, all about “bikeshedding”, or the Parkinson’s Law of Triviality to give it its official name. Bikeshedding is a term to explain the…

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Contributing to WordPress Core for Absolute Beginners

August 7, 2016 7:30 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, WordPress0 Comments110 Views

This blog post details my first experience of contributing to WordPress Core, and hopefully it will provide a little help for any other budding contributors. Where to Start The WordPress.org website has a fantastic section for contributors, the section I was looking for…

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Customer Development: Getting Honest Feedback About Your Products and Services

August 6, 2016 8:38 pmFebruary 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, Business0 Comments127 Views
'The Mom Test' Book

A couple of weeks ago I learned all about Customer Development, by attending another fantastic Founders Network event. Once again, superbly put together by Tech North. The event was delivered by co-founders of Lyst; Rob Fitzpatrick and Devin Hunt, and Rob kindly gave us a signed copy…

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Starting your own Business and the Law

July 31, 2016 10:44 pmFebruary 9, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog, Business0 Comments154 Views
Andrea Cropley Stood in-front of the 'Founders Network' sign

This week I delved into the legal side of starting your own business, by attending the “Founders Network Masterclass on Legals” event, superbly put together by Tech North. The event was held at the Chimney House, Kelham Island, Sheffield. A cozy little building that I haven’t been…

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Embracing and Growing a Digital Community

November 14, 2015 8:39 pmMarch 4, 2021By Matt WatsonIn Blog0 Comments78 Views
The Digital Barn at Barnsley DMC

Barnsley is where it all began for me, both literally and metaphorically speaking (I was born there, my business is based there). So you could say that I have a bit of an attachment to that particular town, and that probably…

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