by Paul Hooper | 4th Mar 2020 | Cloud, Security, Support
Are you worried about COVID-19, the Corona virus? Most people I have spoken to about this accept that there is a reasonable likelihood that it may become fairly widespread in this country, but few are overly concerned, as the fatality rate is actually quite low, and...
by Paul Hooper | 30th Aug 2019 | website management
A client recently asked me to cancel their ongoing support as they did not feel they needed it any more as they don’t frequently update their website content. They were failing to understand that their WordPress website interacts with its environment. It’s...
by Paul Hooper | 8th Apr 2019 | Uncategorized
Back in the office after spending the weekend at the London Metropolitan University, for WordCamp London 2019. I love this event: not only do you get well fed and given loads of lovely swag, you get to meet and listen to some of the leading lights from the WordPress...
by Paul Hooper | 8th Mar 2019 | Security, website management
I was recently asked, at a networking meeting, whether I thought my clients should have administrator access to their CMS based website. I immediately replied “No”. This is because giving an inexperienced website owner admin rights is just inviting...
by Paul Hooper | 27th Oct 2017 | Malware, website management
php5-2and5-4-end-of-support Transcript of my one minute to CRX on Friday 27th October 2017 I am Paul Hooper and my company is Route22 Limited – we build websites Do you know what php is? (Php , hypertext preprocessor – it’s...
by Paul Hooper | 2nd Feb 2017 | Security, website management
I received an email yesterday, from one of my website security partners ‘Sucuri’, and I felt I should pass the information on. Sucuri announced that they had discovered a severe content injection (privilege escalation) vulnerability affecting the REST API....
by Paul Hooper | 25th Jan 2017 | Security, Support
Happy New Year to you. I hope that you had an excellent Christmas and are now rested and prepared for the challenges and opportunities of the coming year. I don’t know about you, but I spent the first couple of weeks after the holidays concentrating on some...
by Paul Hooper | 27th Jul 2016 | Uncategorized
Here is a copy of my presentation to CRX, made on Friday 22nd July 2016. build it and they will come live...
by Paul Hooper | 12th Apr 2016 | web design
At Route22 we think it’s important to stay up to date with technology and maintain links with the people and organisations who know most about it. In the case of WordPress, there is no better way to achieve this than by attending the excellent WordPress community...
by Paul Hooper | 8th Apr 2016 | website management
This week’s big news story has been the so called “Panama Papers” and the resultant resignation of at least one world leader, the Icelandic Prime Minister. Our own prime minister, David Cameron, has not been immune from this controversy, nor has Russian...
