I’m posting this so I can take a look at it when I have time:
Google doesn’t like links from low-quality sites, so telling them this is not a site I know or trust is a good thing.
I’m posting this so I can take a look at it when I have time:
Google doesn’t like links from low-quality sites, so telling them this is not a site I know or trust is a good thing.
We recently created a new site and wanted a fancier font than what was available, and I found this page to help:
Use Google Fonts Locally With GeneratePress
That did the trick! I’m including a link to the helper page, in case the main article goes away.
Siteground support gave me a good resource today… a website previewer that can be used to see a site before you’re ready to switch the DNS.
Here’s a good article on how to diagnose and fix slow WordPress sites.
We recently had a client with a hacked site, and I discovered some interesting security tools that are freely available.
Top 13 Online Vulnerability Scanning Tools
And here are some more…
Website Vulnerability Scanners
I used some of them to make sure the site had been cleaned up, and all is well. This underscores the importance of keeping WordPress up-to-date!
I wanted to find out which domains were on somebody’s mailing list, and used this SQL command:
SELECT count((SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTR(email, INSTR(email, ‘@’) + 1),’.’,1))), (SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTR(email, INSTR(email, ‘@’) + 1),’.’,1)) FROM `phplist_user_user` group by (SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTR(email, INSTR(email, ‘@’) + 1),’.’,1)) where confirmed=1 and blacklisted=0 order by count(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTR(email, INSTR(email, ‘@’) + 1),’.’,1)) desc
It resulted in this list. Pretty cool!
3916 | gmail |
496 | yahoo |
442 | kellyservices |
256 | comcast |
228 | hotmail |
195 | officeteam |
179 | accountemps |
163 | aol |
115 | sbcglobal |
85 | volt |
84 | att |
81 | adeccona |
78 | bellsouth |
76 | outlook |
76 | roberthalffinance |
65 | us |
58 | roberthalftechnology |
57 | earthlink |
56 | me |
56 | msn |
53 | ajilonfinance |
52 | roberthalfmr |
51 | cox |
47 | right |
43 | |
40 | icloud |
40 | mac |
Recently, I’ve been learning about email and how to set things up so people can’t impersonate email addresses.
One of the things to set up is DKIM, which is a method of “signing” an email as it leaves your server. The recipient end can validate that signature when email is received, and if it fails the validation, the email can be rejected as not legitimate.
This site can be used to test if your DKIM signature is set up correctly:
http://www.appmaildev.com/en/dkim
Another way to test is to send it to your Yahoo email, then look at the message source. If you find “dkim=pass” in the header, you’re good to go.
And, one more way is to send an email to check-auth@verifier.port25.com and you’ll get a report back.
Additional resource: https://emailstuff.org/
Nifty!
We have a client who wants to use Google’s G-Suite email, in addition to their regular email service. So I found this page and figured out how to do it: Split Domain Routing at Luxsci
And here’s the Google page for setting it up: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7502379?hl=en
Two hardware vulnerabilities have been recently revealed, and they affect the CPUs (brains) of most modern computers and electronic devices. The only permanent fix is replacing the affected hardware but there isn’t anything available just yet. It’s going to take some serious work by hardware vendors to come up with a solution. That being said, software patches are being made available, so go ahead and perform any updates that become available for your computer, phone, tablet, and all other electronic devices as soon as possible.
Since this affects pretty much all computers, your website may also be rebooted during the patching process. Contact your web host with any questions.
Full details, in human-readable form (!) are on the Defiant blog: The Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities