It was a letter from hell. When a small business or ordinary citizen gets a threatening letter from a law firm that accuses the receiver of a serious, multiyear image copyright breach, it is an experience that makes the receiver … Read the story...
Category: Publishing
Inside Facebook: what makes the Zuckerberg machine tick
Facebook is such a powerful global enterprise that its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders haven’t always understood its might. The social media service has been exploited to rig elections, to develop terrorist and hate communities, and spread … Read the story...
Why and how to install Pico CMS, a simple and fast web site publishing software
WordPress, Drupal and other powerful content management systems (CMS) are products that can be used to build corporate web sites, online shops, blogs, news sites, and many other types of publications. But if you only need a small web site … Read the story...
WordPress market share continues to grow, but 2021 is a critical year for the software
Updated 2021-02-11: WordPress market share has now reached 40% of all public web sites.
It is pretty amazing that a free, open source software is the most popular system that is powering more than one third of web sites … Read the story...
Why we don’t write our posts in WordPress Gutenberg editor
When the first working versions of the Gutenberg block editor for WordPress were available, I was excited. The new editor promised so much for the future, and made some tasks easier than in the old WordPress post editor. After … Read the story...
Hey Google, when will your engineers resolve the AdSense account access problem?
I’m not 100% sure, but because I have been in similar situation with other Google products before, I think that AdSense doesn’t like the fact that I travel for work. During the last four weeks, Google AdSense advertising service has … Read the story...
How to install and configure Awstats web statistics for WordPress and for other sites
Published 2019-08-27, Updated 2020-07-06 with settings for different types of URLs.
Awstats is a statistics/analysis tool that collects data from visitors who view a web site. It tallies up data into a database so that you can view historical statistics … Read the story...
One-third of the world’s web sites are running on WordPress content management software
WordPress, a free open source software package used for many types of online publications, was launched 15 years ago. Since then, it has steadily grown into the most popular content management system for building and running web sites. Now, the … Read the story...
How to choose the best method for preventing comment spam in WordPress
Everyone who is responsible for administering and managing a WordPress blog, web site, or publication that is configured to accept comments knows how massive the comment spam problem is. Fortunately, multiple solutions are available to fight it. In fact, there … Read the story...
There is something terribly wrong with this web page
Why does someone publish thought-provoking articles on the internet only to cover the excellent content with popup windows (see the screen capture above)? In the early days of online advertising – 15-20 years ago – it was common to bombard … Read the story...