How to back up an e-commerce website
I recently posted an article on detailing general guidelines for backing up a WordPress website. In that article I briefly touched on backing up …
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Website Back Up Guidelines for WordPress
Someday, you will lose some important file that hasn’t been backed up… Wait – of course you won’t – You already know the importance …
40 years: The Edmund Fitzgerald
As a kid growing up in Central Minnesota I’d never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The wreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot was a …
Fix FTP Connection Issues with GoDaddy
I recently ran into an issue trying to connect to a new FTP account for a client who’s hosted on GoDaddy. After setting up …
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 …
Chrome 46 removes HTTP / HTTPS mixed content warning
Google announced yesterday on their Online Security Blog that they’ll be retiring the yellow caution triangle badge that appeared when Chrome detected a “HTTPS …
Force WordPress Media button to insert https:// links
I’d previously written a post about forcing the WordPress Media button to insert protocol relative links when running a website as HTTPS-everywhere. Upon further …
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 …
Slack Snippets zero width space bug
I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters (​) from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a …
Jetpack WordPress plugin vulnerability
Apparently, jetpacks are dangerous for more than the obvious reason. It was announced yesterday that the popular WordPress plugin, Jetpack was discovered to have …
SVG SMIL animations to be deprecated
I was recently got a console warning in Chrome on a client’s website stating that: [text] SVG’s SMIL animations (‘animate’, ‘set’, etc.) are deprecated …
WP Super Cache 1.4.5 Patches XSS Vulnerability
If you use WP Super Cache to speed up your site, update to the latest version as soon as possible to patch critical security …
Brute Force attack report
A Brute Force attack is defined as a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data such as passwords through exhaustive effort (using …
Force WordPress Add Media button to insert protocol relative links
Update: Protocol Relative links are considered an anti-pattern according to Paul Irish. Basically, if an asset is available over https:// then it should be …
Remove “” from being injected into HTML
I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …
Remove “” from being injected into HTML
I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …
Remove “​” from being injected into HTML
I ran into an issue developing a recent site of a few zero width space characters (​) getting injecting into the html output: Apparently …
Duplicate column name ‘post_date’
We recently had a strange database error on a site that uses Events Calendar Pro. The error logs were chock full of the following …