If the amount of spam you get is out of control from your WordPress-based website, blocking access based on the country might be a way to try next, on top of the regular ReCaptcha method. IP2Location Country Blocker is a free WordPress plugin that lets you block unwanted traffic from […]
I discovered many blank draft posts appeared on one of the websites I managed. I firstly freaked out and thought the site might have got hacked but after a few searching and troubleshooting digging, I noticed that it could be just one of the Dashboard widgets, namely Quick Draft or […]
I was setting up a new WordPress website the other day and encountered a dead loop redirection when trying to log into the backend dashboard /wp-admin/. Scratching my head for a while until I realized that the 8 keys and salt values in the wp-config.php file were set up correctly. […]
It’s actually much easier than I thought. Simply spin up a VPS from a hosting provider of your choice, and follow the following steps. Note that I use Ubuntu as the version of Linux because that’s what I am more familiar with. If you are familiar with others, the steps […]
It’s 2021 and downloading videos off YouTube still a thing for various reasons. But be respectful to the copyrighted content there, obey the law and don’t be stupid trying to illegally download the content there to make yourself money out of it. Now, if you have a legit reason that […]
During the pandemic where it’s impossible to take any vacation away from where you live, how about a virtual drive tour to different big cities around the world? And what would it be even cooler listening to the local radio stations at the same time? Let’s go.
For websites selling age-restricted products, such as alcohol, cannabis, or smoking-related products, age verification is required for visitors before entering the website. A process is called Age Gate. In WordPress, it could be achieved easily by implementing an Age Gate plugin and there are tons of them available, mostly free […]
Wordfence, the one behind the popular WordPress security plugin, launched a speed test site that tests your website speed in browser simulations from 13 locations around the world and delivers actionable result you can use to increase your website’s performance. Unlike other popular speed test tools like Google PageSpeed or […]
Web design has evolved over the years in a very dramatic way. From pure text based web page from way back to multi-media driven interactive sites, it’s been a long way. If you’d like to see how web design has transformed, the internet has tons of information for you to […]
I have an Ubuntu VM that is running low on root partition lately. And here is what I did to increase it without reinstalling the system. First, expand the virtual disk to get more space ready for the system. Once the system boots up, turn off swap. sudo swapoff /dev/sda5 Fire up […]