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To share or not to share?

Password sharing is commonplace. The other day I received an email thread forwarded by a colleague that had done the…Continue readingTo share or not to share?

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Password reset spam and password protection

There’s a measure in our setup to prevent discovery of your usernames by preventing scans of ‘/?author=N’, the oEmbed API,…Continue readingPassword reset spam and password protection

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Have you just let your domain expire?

You want your own domain, it’s cheap isn’t it? One extreme case I got hired to help out with had…Continue readingHave you just let your domain expire?

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Twenty Twenty is here

With the latest platform update, OurLocality is running WordPress 5.3, a bit slicker and more secure. With 5.3 comes a…Continue readingTwenty Twenty is here

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To lump or to split?

“It is good to have hair-splitters and lumpers.” —Charles Darwin Unless you are a compulsive organiser, filing is a chore.…Continue readingTo lump or to split?

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SPAM BLOGS

A Spam Blog (known as a Splog in the jargon) is a website or blog created exclusively to peddle links…Continue readingSPAM BLOGS

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Short Cuts

Life is too short to remember all these short cuts, suffice to say that you will find them all listed…Continue readingShort Cuts

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Upgrade downtime – summer is here

We’ll be back by the end of lunch, with a fair wind and a bit of luck. And whilst we…Continue readingUpgrade downtime – summer is here

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Events, dear boy, events

What ourlocality publishers should fear most are those repeating events articles, that you need to be able recycle each year,…Continue readingEvents, dear boy, events