Have you ever wanted to check your Google search results page ranking? Or find out who is also ranking for your chosen keywords? If so our new (and free) SEO toolkit, designed to help you perform heavy keyword and competition research, is for you! Our free SEO toolkit contains tools to help ensure that your website is configured as perfect as possible for Google and Bing. Try out the SEO toolkit...
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WordPress 4.7.3 is now available with patches for six security vulnerabilities that affect version 4.7.2 and all previous versions. WordPress.org is strongly encouraging users to update their sites immediately. The release includes fixes for three cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affect media file metadata, video URLs in YouTube embeds, and taxonomy term names. It also includes...
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A new ransomware campaign is targeting Google Chrome users. If Chrome users visit a compromised site, an alert will pop up prompting the user to “update” a Chrome font extension. The false update claims it need to execute because Hoefler Text is not found. Although this text font is legitimate, the update is not. According to Forbes, researchers have found after users execute the fake...
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This statement, made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, sets out the approach taken by O’Brien Media Limited to understand all potential modern slavery risks related to its business, and the actions undertaken to mitigate any such risks.O’Brien Media Limited is a global provider of website development and digital marketing services. O’Brien Media Limited has employees...
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Project description Having worked with Revolution Performing Arts to meet their ongoing website support needs we identified a number of changes to their WordPress website that would improve the usability and overall visitor experience for their customers. The navigation structure of their website was paired down and some sections of the site were retired or merged with other content to reduce the...
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At the end of January, WordPress 4.7.2 was released to fix four security issues, three of which were disclosed at the time of the release. The fourth and most critical issue, an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in a REST API endpoint, was fixed silently and disclosed a week after the release. This vulnerability allows anyone with the right know-how to edit the content of...
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Office 2016 is the recommended version of Office 365 ProPlus and includes all the latest upgrades and new features. As we announced in September 2015, when we released Office 2016, beginning March 1, 2017, the Office 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus will no longer be available for installation from the Office 365 portal. How does this affect me? Beginning March 1, 2017, your users will no...
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Following Microsoft withdrawing support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 at the start of 2016 and switching to a "security only" update model for Internet Explorer 11 (with no functionality issues being considered for fixes if the issue had already been resolved in Microsoft Edge) we are calling time on Internet Explorer as a "current" browser. With support from Microsoft for their Internet...
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If you host your WordPress or Drupal website with O'Brien Media we provide an enhanced CMS software reminder service. In addition to the built-in reminder options in WordPress and Drupal we will send you a notification email (and letter if your Drupal and WordPress version is very out of date) using the contact details we have on record for your account with O'Brien Media. Starting from...
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You can use this to post advice or reminders to logged in users when they need to perform different tasks. All you have to do is add the following anywhere in your theme you want to display the message. Create a shortcode to detect logged in users To turn this into a shortcode so you can use it in your posts you can just use the below snippet add this into your functions.php page. To use...
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