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Croydon Enterprise Plus
Business networking groups are a great help for small business owners, and I am delighted that one of my favourites, Croydon Enterprise plus is still thriving despite the COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown. Meetings have not just carried on, they have doubled in frequency, to twice a month, and attendance is still good.
Free Cloud based server
We are currently offering a Cloud based Server free of charge over this difficult period, providing you with a way to get your businesses working remotely with no obligation or commitment until 26th July. The details Any new Entry level or Standard level Cloud Server...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
How can you remane productive if everyone is “self-isolated” due to the Coronavirus?
Modern websites are organic and require ongoing care
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 vulnerable...
Wordcamp London 2019 #wcldn
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...
Should the Website Owner be a site administrator?
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 trouble. It is just...
PHP 5.2 and 5.4 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...
Sucuri / WordPress security disclosure
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. This...
Mind your PC security
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...
Ten minute presentation to CRX – 22nd July 2016
Here is a copy of my presentation to CRX, made on Friday 22nd July 2016. build it and they will come live
