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One Year’s Worth of WordPress Login Attempts

As you probably know WordPress sites are constantly under attack from all over the world regardless of where your site is hosted or what kind of site it is. Ever since I first noticed suspicious traffic on my own WordPress…

Renaming files can be a big mistake

Any project we are working on should always have some type of development environment where we can test code before we take it live (aka “in production”). In reality, this is not always the case due to resource or time…

Return 404 response code for certain query strings in WordPress

When WordPress site owners have been victims of hacking they often suffer consequences by getting blocked by Google or getting warnings from Google about malicious URLs on their site. After cleaning the site, these problems can linger when the URLs…

Theming password protected login plugin for WordPress

Password Protected is one of my favorite plugins for WordPress and I use it regularly. More often than not a site needs to go online for client approval and/or the last parts of development before it’s actually ready. That’s when…

Websurfing in Sweden: The ratio of mobile vs. stationary devices

It’s always a bit tricky to get your hands on solid information on technical usage statistics. I’ve recently been going over statistics for a couple of different Swedish websites so I thought I’d share. I’ve come to the conclusion that…

Which CMS is your favorite artist using?

Because I am a coder one of the first things I do when I visit a website is to right click and view source. There is a lot of interesting information in there, if you are a code geek. You…

Extending and customizing Prism syntax highlighter

I have finally found the syntax highlighter I was looking for. Prism is a light weight Javascript + css syntax highlighter written by Lea Verou. A syntax highlighter is a program that will help you make any bits of code…