Some of the cool new features in WordPress 3.3 are compelling reasons to upgrade. In fact I plan to upgrade a few of my sites when things quite down around here. However we’ve seen at leas one plugin (for now) cause major problems (like you can’t login) that makes me think you should use a [...]
Is WordPress Secure?
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some people claim that WordPress isn’t secure because it is open source (free), which means that hackers can easily access the software to find holes in its security. Which is silly. Yes, WordPress is free and hackers have easy access to it, but so what? Hackers can easily download pirated copies of software they want. [...]
Take advantage of sales tool built into WishList Member
October 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
An often overlooked yet powerful sales tool built into WishList Member are the non-member and wrong level error pages. When set up properly non-members and existing members who try to access protected content will be redirected to the page of your choice…hopefully one with a powerful sales message. The setup is easy. Here’s how to [...]
Website and WordPress security first in series
October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Website security is like health insurance – you never really worry about it until you absolutely, positively need it and it’s too late to get it. You may think, “That can’t happen to me” or “I’m busy…I’ll get to it next week.” Famous last words! Every day, hosting servers get fried, hackers break into accounts, [...]
Plugin Review: WooCommerce
October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Woo Themes is very popular among membership site owners. WishList Member uses a few a few Woo Themes on as to many of our clients here. One of the biggest news stories in the WordPress world last week was Woo’s launch of their free eCommerce plugin Woocommerce. This morning I saw that Jeff Chandler [...]
Should you use PayPal or a shopping cart?
September 28, 2011 By 4 Comments
One of the key questions new membership site owners ask is whether to use PayPal by itself or a shopping cart service like 1ShoppingCart. There’s no easy answer to this question as there are advantages and trade-offs to each. In order to help you make a more informed decision we will compare using PayPal by [...]
WishList Member New Member Registration Process
September 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Each time we build a new membership site we walk our client through the pages that a new member visits when they first register. After doing this almost weekly for nearly two years I decided to practice what I preach and record a video of the process. These are very critical content pages because they [...]
New fix for the TimThumb security vulnerability
September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Quick, simple and free fix for the TimThumb security vulnerability.
Article: How to Jump Ship from GoDaddy
April 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Like most web developers I dislike (hate) Godaddy for a variety of technical reasons not relate to their misogynistic advertising and unethical upsell process. To keep it simple, let’s just say they suck. As a Matter of policy we will not build new sites hosted by them and prefer not to maintain existing ones. Almost [...]
Article: Ditch the Job Mentality and Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ditch the Job Mentality and Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset http://www.problogger.net/archives/2011/03/31/ditch-the-job-mentality-and-develop-an-entrepreneurial-mindset/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney+%28ProBlogger%3A+Helping+Bloggers+Earn+Money%29 What many people don’t realize is that the major hindrance to success in their blogging niche has nothing to do with technique or value, but with the job mentality that they have brought along with them. This post on Problogger not only applies to blogging [...]
