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Patch up WordPress ( please )

By on April 25, 2013 in security, Tips, WordPress

Waking up today and we’re hearing about more issues with certain plugins so once again here’s the type of blog post you see quite a bit on here. It’s namely the keep your website up to date post. You generally keep the software on your computer up to date don’t you? There are new features, [...]

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Brute Force Attack

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

By on April 15, 2013 in Hosting, network, security, Service Issue, WordPress

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against self-hosted WordPress sites. As the largest host of WordPress powered sites in Ireland we were impacted as well and have been tracking this attack closely. Last Tuesday we began to see high load on a [...]

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Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs

By on February 18, 2013 in Blogging, business, Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases, WordPress

We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension [...]

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Twitter Cards Now Enabled!

By on September 17, 2012 in Marketing, Social Media, WordPress

As regular readers of our blog know we like to share our content across multiple social networks and tend to be relatively early adopters.. A few weeks ago Yoast posted about Twitter cards and how they were now “in the wild”. Unfortunately you still have to go to the Twitter developer site and signup to [...]

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Keep your site up to date

By on July 9, 2012 in security, WordPress

No we’re not talking about keeping your site up to date with new content. In this post I’m talking about keeping the software you’re running your site on up to date and it’s not a new topic on the blog for us. I’ll mainly be talking about WordPress (which is at 3.4.1) but it’s the [...]

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Speed Up Your WordPress Content Creation

By on April 26, 2012 in WordPress

One of the great features of WordPress is the ease at which you can add Pages and Posts to a site.  With a simple click you can create, edit and publish content.  So for a once off website creation you can be up and running in literally a few hours if you know what structures [...]

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Wordpress 3.3 is here

WordPress 3.3 is out

By on December 13, 2011 in WordPress

These types of posts are quite common for us but they really are worth repeating. Please Note: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs ( as well as VPS / Cloud customers with self installs ) of WordPress and NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs WordPress 3.3 was released last night and [...]

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