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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…