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    WordPress MailPoet Plugin Vulnerability is a Reminder to Upgrade

    The recent news involving the WordPress MailPoet Plugin vulnerability, is yet another reminder to all web site owners to maintain and update their websites. WordPress is an easy and powerful system that allows all owners to update content with little effort. This system is bases on an open-source model, which is what also makes it so…

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    WordPress 3.9 “Smith” Released

    WordPress 3.9 “Smith” released on April 16, 2014 includes a number of updates. Updated Visual Editor Pasting from a word processor is easier now that  styling can be clean up quickly. Generally pasting from Word has been an issue, but now you can keep paste as text active, without having to think about it. Image…

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    WordPress 3.8 Automatic Updates

    The new WordPress 3.8 has been released and there are some exciting new features to know about. Admin Facelift First there is the new administrator side look. Very clean,  with bold colors. In addition the dashboard is now responsive to better manage your site. Twenty Fourteen Theme With the new release comes a new theme….

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    WordPress 3.7

    Version 3.7 of WordPress, named “Basie” in honor of Count Basie, is now available. There are two notable changes in this release. Automatic Updates One the most notable changes is how you apply maintenance and security updates. In an effort to promote better security, and to streamline the update experience overall sites are now able…

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    Domain Registration and Ownership

    Every year I am reminded of the importance of Domain Registration and ownership of that domain. I have had many clients come to me over the years, asking for help in gaining access to their domain. Generally, because they want to move their domain from one web hosting provider to another. Problems arise when the…

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    cPanel – Your web hosting control panel

    You just registered your domain name and purchased a web hosting package, which includes the latest cPanel control panel! Now what? What is cPanel and what do you use it for? Very simply, cPanel gives you complete control over your web site and hosting account through your web browser through a simple to use interface….

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    What is search engine optimization (SEO)?

    There are a lot of technical terminology I can use to define search engine optimization (SEO), but I would like to define it for the average web user. In basic terms, SEO are the steps taken to improve the volume or quality of the visitors to a web site from search engines “organic” search results….

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    Domain Name Expiration Notice Tricks

    I just received this in the mail (real mail) from Domain Registry of America. My initial reaction was that this is a bill to renew my domain names. Just one funny thing, I am my own registrar. So why am I getting a notice that my domain is expiring and it needs to be renewed?…