How to configure WordPress for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

by Dave Mroz | Oct 31, 2014 | Social Media, WordPress

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...

2014 Glimmernet Redesign

by Dave Mroz | Sep 11, 2014 | Web Design

Redesigning the Glimmernet site has been on the list of things to do for seemingly forever and we kept finding ourselves too busy working with clients to get our own projects completed. About two weeks ago we decided it was time to make it happen. This meant...

My Blog Admin Username is…

by Dave Mroz | Apr 21, 2014 | Security, WordPress

I'm running a test. In my post on Blocking Kyivstar From Accessing Your WordPress Site from January, I first said that "‘admin’ isn’t a valid username on this blog and it shouldn’t be on yours, either!". Since then I've used similar sentiments a few times, but ever...

You’ve Installed WordPress. Now What?

by Dave Mroz | Apr 14, 2014 | Security, Web Design, WordPress

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

by Dave Mroz | Apr 14, 2014 | Web Design, WordPress

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

by Dave Mroz | Feb 11, 2014 | Security

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

by Dave Mroz | Feb 10, 2014 | Security, WordPress

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

by Dave Mroz | Jan 16, 2014 | Security, WordPress

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...