Do you use the default email settings in your WordPress website hosted by IONOS ? If so, check to see if your contact forms are still working. If they don't you will probably discover that no emails can be sent…
Original post July 2019 - updated October 2021 Back in November 2016, Google announced that their ranking algorithms would gradually start making more use of the mobile versions of website pages rather than the desktop version of a page’s content…
Back in 2020, Google announced that they would be making User Experience (UX) more important in ranking search results and that they were introducing some new ranking factors to support this. Google generally are quite secretive about what they use…
(Updated November 2021) Until about 2014, I had never had any websites hacked, however, hacking seems to be on the increase and I have had to recover a number of sites for clients more recently. In fact, back in 2015…
If you read my earlier articles on this topic ( Does your website use a .eu domain ? and Maybe you can keep your .eu domain names after Brexit ) you will remember that there was some uncertainty as to…
The release of WordPress version 5.5 (11th August 2020) [superceded by version 5.5.1 on 1st September 2020] included a preliminary implementation of an option to enable automatic updates for themes and plugins in your website. Auto-updates for plugins and themes…
You might have read my article "Does your website use a .eu domain ?" on my blog back in April 2018. At the time it puzzled the Internet industry and thoughts were, "is this actually legal?" The UK government's Department…
Important changes for your website. [ Update: the Chrome version 68 browser was released on 24th July 2018 so all http websites now show as "Not secure" ] My apologies for the long looking post but it is important that…
How are your preparations for GDPR compliance going ? Hopefully you are well under way with this now as the deadline of 25th May 2018 is fast approaching. Research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in the UK in…
I bet you are, like most British people these days, fed up with hearing about Brexit but as the time for us to leave gets closer, I'm sure there will be many other items we haven’t thought about that come…