Year: 2017

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Hundreds of Thousands of WordPress Sites Defaced through REST API Vulnerability

Chris O'Brien February 07, 2017 0 Comments
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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Download option for Office 365 administrators

Chris O'Brien January 28, 2017 0 Comments
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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Powerful Search

  Now, where will you find your article in a repository of thousands of articles? Don't worry, Our search engine searches to thousands of articles within seconds and prioritises results based on contextual weightage. Content prioritization and weightage: Priority and weightage are given to content appearing in different places like title, post content ( exact position in post content ),...
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Publishing Capabilities

Are you worried about bad contents in your article? Do you not want everyone to publish the article? Do you want to set different capabilities for different users not allowing everyone to publish or approve the article? It's as Simple as ABC with Helpie. Just go to dashboard -> Helpdesk -> Helpie settings -> Core -> Publishing. Publishing: You can now assign capabilities to any user...
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Internet Explorer, no longer a “current” browser as Microsoft cuts off support

Chris O'Brien January 17, 2017 0 Comments
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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CMS update notifications for our customers

Chris O'Brien January 16, 2017 0 Comments
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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WordPress: Display a message or other text in a page or post only to logged in users

Jenny Howell January 14, 2017 0 Comments
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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Upgrade today WordPress, Drupal websites

Chris O'Brien January 12, 2017 0 Comments
On the 25th of December 2016, a security researcher disclosed a critical remote code execution flaw within a popular programme used to send emails from websites and web applications. The PHPMailer library is used by more than 9 million websites worldwide and is bundled with popular content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal. At worst this is a flaw that could be used to run...
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Windows 10 Mail App Bug: Reply-To Address is Ignored

Jenny Howell January 09, 2017 0 Comments
We're seeing more and more of a bug (I'm sure Microsoft see it as a feature) where if a user is using the Windows 10 Mail App and they reply to an email with a "Reply-To" address (where the sender specifies a different email address for replies to be sent to, in place of the "From" address) Windows 10 Mail ignores the "reply-to" address resulting in emails going to the wrong address. As an...
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Why GMB is essential for any business

Jenny Howell January 08, 2017 0 Comments
If your business has an actual physical location, then one of the first things you need to do to promote your business is to use Google My Business. This service enables you to get listed on Google Maps. It sounds so simple, but the benefits are profound. Here are some reasons why Google My Business is important for your business: Reviews make your business more relevant, and that will boost...
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