Site security

Did you know that if you type into your browser /login, /admin, /wp-admin or /wp-login-php after your WordPress web site name and press enter or go, your browser bar will bring up your WordPress login page? Well, if you didn't, you do now, and so do lot's of cyber criminals, they know this, and they will use this to try and force thier way in to your WP admin. Did you also now that there is a plugin available called WPS Hide Login, that will let you easily and quickly change your sites log in U

Security Breach at Canva.

I am a member of the security website 'Have I Been Pawned dot com', and today I have recieved an email from HIBP informing me of a security breach at Canva. I know that many of my fellow WA members have accounts at Canva and I would advise anyone who has an account at Canva to log in and change thier password, the message I recieved is as follows;In May 2019, the graphic design tool websiteCanva suffered a data breach that impacted 137 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addres

Distractions, And How To Minimise Them.

There are many things that can distract you from writing or watching a traing video, being logged in to your WordPress site and trying to concentrate on writing a new blog post will bring distractions to you, because you will have your PC on and be logged in to the Internet, Facebook, your e-mail and even your PC will send you notifications that will distract you. Then there is your mobile phone, text, Whats App and even a phone call will stop you from writing and cause you to lose concentratio

How to fund your WA account

Funding your WA account needn't be an extra debt added to your purse, you just need to think logically about how to pay for your account. $47.00 or $1.57 per day (47/30days) is not a great deal of money to find each month and the rewards in the long term could be of great benefit to you as you will learn a great deal about building websites and marketing with affiliate programs on line.First of all you will need to organise your finances so that you are in control and know how much you are spen

Phishing Attempt

The other day I recieved an e-mail that looked like it had come from Google Analytics, but in fact, it was a phishing attempt. It was titled with the following in the subject; 'Update for Google Analytics ID'and it contained the following text;New Google Analytics ExtensionDear Google Analytics user,You are receiving this message because your account (Google Analytics ID: ) can now access the new Analytics Extension that identifies your site visitors for the past 12 months.What's the New Extens

Account Security

These days you can't take your security too seriously and you should create hard to guess unique passkeys for all of your online accounts. Everyone knows that the default user name on WordPress is 'Admin', so you should change this to something unique because a hacker would know this, and this would be half the battle won for him as now he knows that your user name is 'Admin', and would only need to hack your passkey to your WordPress account and he will be in your back office.A hacker would on

My Progress Within WA

I decided to upgrade to premium member within my first month because I could see that this is a legitimate business and something that I wanted to do, I got very excited about creating my own websites, having my content displayed and commented on, and even more excited about being involved within a likewise community, and yet more excited at the prospect of making some money online. I could also see that WA has been around for ten years and lots of the members have been here longterm. I already