Blog
At Glimmernet, our blog is where expertise meets real-world insight.
We cover everything from WordPress and web design best practices to digital compliance, social media strategy, and business development tips. Whether you’re looking to secure your site, optimize your online presence, or better understand the tools driving modern websites, you’ll find reliable, actionable advice here. Our goal is to make complex topics approachable — without the jargon or ego.
Explanation of Facebook Roles
Below is a table outlining the various roles that you can assign to manage your Facebook page Facebook Admin Can manage all aspects of the Page including sending messages and posting as the Page, creating ads, seeing which admin created a post or comment, viewing...
Blocking Albacom from Accessing Your WordPress Site
This article contains the steps required to block Albacom.net from accessing your WordPress site using the Wordfence plugin. Albacom.net is an Italian ISP operating under the name "BT Italia S.p.A.,IT" from which a large number of WordPress brute-force hacking...
How to configure WordPress for Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Daylight savings time ends Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 2:00 am in the United States! It'll be time to set the clocks ahead one hour and adjust your WordPress time zone to ensure that your posts and comments are tagged with the correct time. For many webmasters, this...
You’ve Installed WordPress. Now What?
Congratulations! You just picked a host and successfully got WordPress installed and can't wait to stat blogging! Stop and pause for a quick minute and make sure that your WordPress installation is configured properly and reasonably secure. Going through this guide...
Plugins that every WordPress site should have installed
Here is a short list of a few plugins that we use on virtually every site. I selected the items on this short list to keep things simple and relevant to every WordPress installation regardless of size, traffic, content, etc. You'll probably need other plugins, but...
List of Usernames to Avoid When Configuring WordPress
At about 11:00 am this morning (2/10/2014) the guys over at Wordfence.com reported a HUGE distributed brute-force hacking attack on WordPress sites around the world. This time the traffic wasn't just from Kyivstar, but from random ISPs and countries around the globe....
How To Change Your WordPress Login
WordPress will tell you that usernames cant be changed, but fortunately there is an easy way to do this. What we're going to do is simply create a new account and swap it with the old one. It's worth noting that there are a few plugins that will automate this...
Blocking Kyivstar From Accessing Your WordPress Site
Recently we had a rash of brute-force hacking attempts on a variety of WordPress sites that we manage. The commonality in the attacks is that they all originated from the Ukraine - more specifically they all came from the Kyivstar ISP. A user with...
My Browser Needs a Therapist
I knew my browser tended to be a little broody and emotional, but I had no idea it was so insecure!