by pete | Mar 4, 2021 | eMail
Wow! My beloved Contact Form 7 just put me through the wringer, so take note so you don’t have to go all through this. A Client’s WordPress website that hasn’t missed a beat for years (literally years!) started generating “Failed to send your... 
by pete | Mar 2, 2021 | MailChimp
MailChimp is undoubtably my favourite Newsletter software. Im sure the folks at MailChimp would rather we saw them as an integrated marketing platform, but it certainly does a top job with email newsletters. It just works. You can insert signup forms into your... 
by pete | Feb 16, 2021 | Exploits
The WordFence Threat Intelligence team has identified vulnerabilities in Ninja Forms. This plugin is used to create online forms in over a million WordPress websites. Ninja Forms is very popular as it uses a drag and drop interface to simplify the creation of forms.... by pete | Feb 11, 2021 | Exploits, Wordpress
I’m a big fan of plugins that provide internal WordPress protection from hackers. I call these ‘hack hardening’ plugins because their principal role is to make it more difficult for hackers to get into your website. Unfortunately, its unlikely... 
by pete | Feb 9, 2021 | Facebook Ads
Facebook has announced it will update the ‘GST treatment’ of Facebook Ads purchases by GST-registered business in Australia from 15 Feb. Also if you’ve entered an invalid ABN record in your Facebook account Settings, it will be removed and Facebook... 
by pete | Feb 9, 2021 | Exploits, Wordpress
Exploit Overview The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team have announced the discovery of severe vulnerabilities in NextGen Gallery, a gallery plugin used by over 800,000 WordPress sites. If your site(s) use this plugin ensure you immediately update to the latest... 
by pete | Feb 9, 2021 | Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Advertising has introduced ‘Enhanced CPC’ (eCPC) to all manual bidding campaigns. Microsoft Advertising has announced a bidding approach change, which is ‘encouraging’ campaign developers to use automated bid strategies rather than... by pete | Feb 8, 2021 | Google Ads
Google keyword matching changes Google has announced changes to the way the keyword matching works for broad and phrase matching. They claim it will simplify matching, and won’t likely impact existing campaigns. Google are also using using ‘additional... 
by pete | Feb 5, 2021 | Exploits, news, Wordpress
The team at Wordfence, WordPress’ top-rated firewall plugin for WordPress have identified an issue with Contact Form 7 Style. They have not been successful to contact the plugin developer, so it remains at risk and there is no update currently If you are using... 
by pete | Feb 5, 2021 | Google, news
Google has launched News Showcase. This product is positioned very well to address the Australian Media Code initiative and issues. News Showcase appears to addresses the main concerns that brought the Media code into existence. News Showcase launched on Friday,... 
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