A simple solution to WordPress DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389)
Today I came across an article written by Mohit Kumar (TheHackerNews.com) regarding Vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389) for WordPress. You can read the article at the link above, but for brevity, I’ll give a short explanation of the vulnerability below. WordPress has a file called “load-scripts.php” which accepts a “load” parameter. You can pass a whole bunch of names to […]
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Insurance Chat Performance Improvements
Today was all about performance optimization for some of my clients. I will be sharing some of the sites’ scores in a series of posts. The first site to be written about is http://www.insurancechat.co.za/. This was not the first site I optimized but will be the first one to be discussed. Before I started with any optimization, […]
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Uploading Directories With webkitdirectory
If you’ve ever tried to implement a bulletproof, good-looking drag’n’drop, you might have encountered an issue: uploading an entire folder or folders of files usually isn’t possible, and so filesin each folder have to be selected manually. Unless you use input webkitdirectory, an obscure attribute that allows users to pick a directory via a file input. Currently supported in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. For […]
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7 Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio
1. Edit the value of a variable without changing code Are you ever debugging when you get to a variable and it isn’t what you think it should be? Or maybe you just want to change it to see how the code would behave with a different value? You can easily do this while debugging […]
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10 Tips On Typography in Web Design
Communication plays a vital role in design —it’s essential to establish a clear connection between the website and user and to help your users accomplish their goals. When we talk about communication in web design context, we usually mean text. Typography plays a vital role in this process: More than 95% percent of information on […]
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On-Site Optimization Secrets
Successful business owners know that fresh, SEO-optimized website content is key to bringing in more traffic and sales. Here’s what the right content strategy does for the quality of your SEO: Sites with blogs have 494% more indexed pages Sites with content have 97% more backlinks 61% of shoppers feel more positively about a website […]
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Don’t tell people to turn off Windows Update, just don’t
You know what really surprised me about this whole WannaCry ransomware problem? No, not how quickly it spread. Not the breadth of organisations it took offline either and no, not even that so many of them hadn’t applied a critical patch that landed a couple of months earlier. It was the reactions to this tweet […]
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