If you already have a WordPress theme and have used the customiser to change some settings, then creating a child-theme for more advanced modifications usually means loosing your customisations, or adding them again – Migrating parent to child theme customiser settings means that you don’t loose your customizations. Method1: using Read more…
Building custom blocks for WordPress. Blocks in WordPress are built in javascript (ES5, or ESNext/JSX then compiled down to js using webpack and bable). If you have used react or vuejs you will be very familiar with this workflow. Install nodejs First, you need to have node and npm setup Read more…
Building a wordpress plugin scaffolding from scratch This is a basic walkthrough on how to create the scaffolding for a wordpress plugin from scratch. Firstly, create a repo in githubclone that repo to your machine and inside, create a file with the same name as the repo: coolplugin/coolplugin.php inside this Read more…
Spidering a web application using website crawler software in kali linux There are lots of tools to spider a web application (an companies which are based on this tech, eg google) short list of tools to help you spider a site (eg for creating a sitemap for SEO, or recon Read more…
This is a WordPress Security mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. Read more…
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further attempts at logins from those IP addresses for a specified amount of time. Installing fail2ban on centos is relatively easy Read more…
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
Making a WordPress Theme. From Scratch. Research + Information Architecture Introduction Making a new WordPress theme from scratch can seem daunting, but it’s pretty easy if you know the steps. This series will explore the techniques you need to employ to build a WordPress theme from scratch. In the series Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
This is a short tutorial showing how to setup wordpress and cloudflare flexible ssl. Cloudflare offer a service called ‘flexible ssl’ this means that cloudflare encrypts your content between the end-user and cloudflare, but the connection between cloudflare and your site is not encrypted. This is a good solution if Read more…
Not sure how I missed this one, but there is now a google ‘Author Stats’ section in google webmastertools: goto google webmastertools > labs > author stats you will now see all the pages that google knows you have authored, across all of the sites you author, with click through Read more…
If you want to set a featured image on all wordpress posts that dont already have a featured image set, then this mysql query can help: # please note that this query will fail; you have to replace ‘id_of_image_from_upload_table’ with the id of the image you uploaded. To find that Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
First: why should you link audit competitors? Second: who are your competitors and how to find them. Third: doing the link audit. Fourth: use the link audit to build links to your own site. why should you link audit competitors There are a few good reasons to do a link Read more…
WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts This is a short post about setting up WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts. Buffer is an excellent service that allows posting to multiple social media sites (twitter, Facebook, google+, linkedin) If you run a wordpress site then there are Read more…
If you have a website, then you most probably want google to index your sites content. the easiest way to do this is to submit a sitemap to google, using webmastertools. 1) Make sure you have a sitemap If you run wordpress then there are plenty of plugins that will Read more…
Importing google reader starred items into pocket. As you all know google reader is being killed very soon. there are lots of google reader alternatives. I use reeder on my phone, ipad and mac to read all my rss feeds. it syncs with google reader and so I have built Read more…
This is cool: go to images.google.com search for ‘Atari Breakout’ try not to waste too much time!
This is an easy way to change the username of your wordpress admin account: login as your current admin user navigate to users > all users add a new user make sure the role is ‘administrator’ give the user the desired username that you want the next steps are: logout Read more…
Sortable columns are a must for most admin things. usually the more the better. Post Admin Word Count is a plugin for your wordpress that adds a ‘word count’ column to your ‘show all posts’ page that is sortable, so you can now sort by word count!!
Seomoz has lots of great information. I subscribe to their blog posts to make sure that I keep up to date on the latest findings and developments across the seo world. but SEO takes a lot of time, and its easy to forget things. I try to spend a couple Read more…
Stumbleupon have a url shortening service: su.pr they also have a plugin for wordpress that lets you shorten your urls. if you use the ‘supr by stumbleupon’ plugin in your wordpress then it will auto submit your posts to stumble upon!! to set it up: first head over to su.pr Read more…
One of the things that bugs me about the wordpress admin section is that its not easy to change the order of teh columns displayed, and its not obvious how to change the columns that are shown. there is a plugin that will let you do this (and if you Read more…
Ive been using google plus a lot more recently. I think facebook has become overburdened with marketeering. one thing that I did notice however was that I was being bombarded with notifications (like Facebook does by default too) if someone replied to a comment that I made then id get Read more…
I use WordPress for this site. it is a fantastic platform, and has a lot of cool features. one of the features that I find annoying is the proofreader function. I have spellcheck in my browser, and even that doesnt match most of the technical things I write about, so Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your LinkedIn contacts with your iPhone addressbook. Goto the LinkedIn app Goto the ‘you’ section Click the gear Click on ‘download connections’ You are done :)
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your iPhone contacts. It will add the twitter details of the people who are already in your addressbook to those entries. It won’t fill your addressbook with twitter usernames! Goto iphone settings > twitter Click ‘update contacts’ Done Read more…
This post will show you how to sync all of your Facebook contacts details with the contacts in your iPhones addressbook. It will only add the information that your Facebook contacts have allowed to be synced, so if bob or joe don’t want you having their new cell number or Read more…
I have a few posts already about twitter i spent a year recording my twitter activity to find patterns in what twitter users react to, and I have written about twitter management before. I have found a few more services that are noteworthy so I decided to list them here: Read more…
Google have released an ‘author’ tag. the author tag is what enables sites to have a ‘byline’ in the google search results. this post will show you how to setup and test the new author tag so that google can (at their discretion) show a picture of you next to Read more…
This is a list of twitter clients for osx available on the mac app store. 1) twitter official client pros works with lists multiple accounts looks excellent cons can only view one thing at a time, eg you cant have a live stream of two accounts at once no sync Read more…
Since yahoo site explorer is now dead I have been looking for alternative ways to profile backlinks. to check your own backlinks and the backlinks of your competitors http://blekko.com search for “yoursite.com /seo” note the space between yoursite.com and /seo http://blekko.com search for “yoursite.com /domainlinks” note the space between yoursite.com Read more…
Some cool SEO tools for you to try out – I’m always looking for SEO tools, the more tools I try out, the more I understand what the general consensus is amongst the SEO community as to what makes your site perform better. That said, there are always things to Read more…
This will show you how to link your google webmastertools and your google analytics accounts. when the two accounts are linked it lets you get some better stats in your webmastertools. goto google.com/webmastertools click on manage it will have an entry for ‘google analytics profile’ in the dropdown when you Read more…
Just incase you use google basefeed (google merchant, or google shopping) their new specifications go live tomorrow, sept 22nd 2010. basically you need to have a brand, a UPC / EAN and a manufacturer part number for everything, and if you sell clothes then you need a google product type Read more…
Wpscan wordpress vulnerability scanner. WPScan is a vulnerability scanner which checks the security of WordPress installations using a black box approach. WpScan checks the security of your wordpress installation by enumerating installed themes and plugins and checking against vulnerability databases for known issues. Details Username enumeration (from author querystring and Read more…
Bulletproof security is an excellent wordpress security plugin for your wordpress installationit provides a lot of cool features: XSS protectionSQL injection protectionhtaccess protectionwp-config protection, One-Click Setup WizardSetup Wizard AutoFix (AutoWhitelist|AutoSetup|AutoCleanup)MScan Malware Scanner.htaccess Website Security Protection (Firewalls)Hidden Plugin Folders|Files Cron (HPF)Login Security & MonitoringJTC-Lite (Limited version of BPS Pro JTC Anti-Spam|Anti-Hacker)Idle Read more…