How to win the fight against contact form spam
Every few months we see waves of spam messages being sent through our customers contact forms. Fortunately there are steps that can be taken …
Chris Opsahl
As one of Cinch’s founders, Chris has been actively involved in the ever-changing world of online businesses and WordPress, and strives to make each customer experience a positive one.
How the lost password function in WordPress works
At some point in time you, or another user of your WordPress site, will forget their password and will need to have it reset. …
Secure your site or alienate your visitors
We’ve written about Google’s push to have all sites run over secure HTTPS connections here and here. We’ve also written about how not using …
How to see if your WooCommerce site is TLS compliant
Authorize.net has been notifying it’s merchants of an upcoming TLS requirement. As of February 28, 2018 any merchants running TLS 1.0/1.1 will no longer …
HTTPS security warnings being sent by Google
We’ve been talking about Google’s push towards HTTPS quite a bit this year. Now, we’re seeing e-mails being sent from Google to website owners …
Delete LayerSlider WP if you are not using it
LayerSlider WP is a seemingly ubiquitous content slider that comes bundled with over 900 WordPress themes available at themeforest. If you run a premium …
WooCommerce 3.1 introduces native product import & export
The release of WooCommerce 3.1 included a number of great additions for store owners and we’ve found it to be stable and virtually conflict-free …
Remove expired SSL certs before adding Let’s Encrypt
We love Let’s Encrypt because it makes running an SSL certificate easy to set-up, it renews automatically, and provides tough data encryption. You might …
Google’s push towards HTTPS
Google has been leading the charge to create a safer internet; one where it is not easy for hackers to snoop your connection or …
Avoid Blackhat SEO spam and save your online reputation
Malicious SEO hacking is known by many names—“Blackhat SEO”, “Dirty SEO”, “SEO Poisoning”—but in the end the result is always the same: your site …
How Cinch Handles Premium Plugins for WordPress
What is a Premium Plugin? A premium plugin is a WordPress extension that requires its own license in order for you to use it. …
Why did Visual Composer dissapear
What’s Visual Composer Visual Composer, by wpBakery, is a page builder plugin for WordPress. It allows the building of DIY pages without coding by …
If the sub’s a-rockin’…
It’s a Friday celebration in the Cinch submarine! Today we hit a milestone with the number of websites we manage and your crew is …
5 Minute Security Upgrade: Set your secret keys
If you want to greatly increase the security of your WordPress site, here’s an easy technique for you to employ. Although it’s been around …
WordPress Download Manager < 2.8.8 Critical Security Vulnerabilities
The WordPress plugin, WordPress Download Manager, has been discovered to contain multiple security vulnerabilities in versions 2.8.8 and lower. Both the free and pro …
5 Minute Security Upgrade: Change your wp_ database table prefix
When you, or your web developer, launched your WordPress site a database table prefix was determined. The prefix helps define and keep organized all …
Why your Instagram feed is broken and how to fix it
If you use the Instagram Feed plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/) by Smash Balloon you may have found that the display of your feed was changed after …
Everyday Hacks
At Cinch, we find and clean-up a variety of WordPress hacks each week. Since it’s Friday, and I need a little break from the …
Security hole found in Akismet anti-spam plugin
Many WordPress bloggers employ the Akismet anti-spam plugin to prevent spam comments to posts. If this includes you, please update to the latest version …
The human security factor: Passwords
Hardening WordPress—the steps taken to tighten up security to prevent a malicious intrusion into your website—can seem daunting to the typical user. Luckily, one …