One thing you need to do for GDPR compliance is to add consent checkboxes everywhere…to every form, every optin. I’ll discuss how to do it with your optins a bit later; for adding one to your comment form, see this post. Here’s how to add a checkbox to a Contact Form 7 form: Note that… Read more
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GDPR: How to add a custom note to a comment form in Genesis child themes
For clients (and anyone!) working on their GDPR compliance and want to add a note about privacy onto their comment form, here’s how to do it. Please note that these instructions are for Genesis child themes. First, go to your theme’s functions.php file: Appearance–>Editor, click on Theme Functions. Next, copy the entire contents of that… Read more
Self-Hosted WordPress Security Basics
(This post was written at the end of 2017 looking forward to 2018; it will be updated as needed.) It seems the nefarious types are on a roll these days: WordPress hacks are becoming more common than they used to be. I’ve dealt with more hacked sites this year than any other year, and various… Read more
5 quick ways to beef up your blog security
So I’d recently started a new blog (although I now won’t be using it, for various reasons…shortest blog life ever! Ha!). I’d installed a security plugin, but hadn’t done much else since I was just getting it all going. And then yesterday, I got notifications that someone was trying to force their way into the… Read more
How to install WordPress on Bluehost hosting
I’m showing you how to install WordPress on the two different web hosts I recommend, Hostgator (last post) and Bluehost (this post). You’ll see that the process is very similar, and so if you’re using a host other than Hostgator or Bluehost, you’ll be able to replicate the installation pretty easily. Soon I’ll show you… Read more
How much does it cost to have a self-hosted WordPress blog?
If you’ve been thinking about starting or moving to a self-hosted WordPress blog, you might be thinking that it’s going to be expensive. WordPress might be free, but the “self-hosted” part is giving you pause. Here’s the truth: You can run your own self-hosted blog for about $9 per month. Or less. Here’s how: Buy… Read more
A few thoughts on blog security & domain stealing
You know the old adage “you learn something new every day?” Well, today it’s certainly true. Today I learned that it’s possible for someone to steal a domain out from under someone. Insane, right? Read the story here on Mashable (and she’s also posted it on her site): Blogger Pulls Off $30,000 Sting To Get… Read more
The Grammar of WordPress
WordPress has its own terms for various things. This is a cheatsheet to help you get familiar with these terms: Dashboard: The area you see when you log in to the WordPress (WP) admin area. It is the topmost menu item of the left-side admin menu. The Dashboard shows an overview of your site, such… Read more
The difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com
I get a lot of questions about the difference between WordPress.org and .com, and it seems that people are often confused—and rightly so. WordPress is WordPress, right? Well, sort of. Usually when people talk about “WordPress,” they mean blogs that people run on their own domain on their own host, i.e. “self-hosted.” This traditional WordPress-powered… Read more
