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Creating a Responsive Design for Your WordPress Website

WordPress Responsive Design is a design approach that allows a website to adapt to the size of the user’s device, whether it be a desktop, tablet, or mobile phone. It uses a combination of flexible grids and layouts, images, and intelligent use of CSS media queries to create a website that is optimized for the device it is being viewed on. This approach ensures that the website looks great and functions properly on any device, providing a great user experience.

Key Points for WordPress Responsive Design:

  • Use flexible grids and layouts to create a website that is optimized for the device it is being viewed on.
  • Utilize images and CSS media queries to ensure the website looks great and functions properly on any device.
  • Implement a mobile-first design approach to ensure the website is optimized for mobile devices.
  • Test the website on multiple devices to ensure it looks and functions properly.

Hundreds of GoDaddy-hosted sites backdoored in a single day

In my opinion, hosting on big platforms like GoDaddy with all the features they showcase, but cost per application to use is pointless. Most website owners or developers think you’re secure by using the free Wordfence versions! 

We provide our managed dedicated servers in South Africa Xneelo and European server Hetzner to manage our client. All clients hosted on our servers @ €5.50 monthly includes updating theme, plugins, and core framework to the latest version of WordPress. We install Akeeba Backup and Akeeba admin Pro on all sites hosted and on a monthly bases as part of your hosting cost. In addition, we backup the sites to our external cloud servers.

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Internet security analysts have spotted a spike in backdoor infections on WordPress websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, all featuring an identical backdoor payload.

The case affects internet service resellers such as MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe Managed WordPress.

The discovery comes from Wordfence, whose team first observed the malicious activity on March 11, 2022, with 298 websites infected by the backdoor within 24 hours, 281 of which were hosted on GoDaddy.

backdoor infecting all sites
Backdoor infections monitor (Wordfence)

Old template spammer

The backdoor infecting all sites is a 2015 Google search SEO-poisoning tool implanted on the wp-config.php to fetch spam link templates from the C2 that are used to inject malicious pages into search results.

The campaign uses predominately pharmaceutical spam templates, served to visitors of the compromised websites instead of the actual content.

The goal of these templates is likely to entice the victims to make purchases of fake products, losing money and payment details to the threat actors.

Additionally, the actors can harm a website’s reputation by altering its content and making the breach evident, but this doesn’t seem to be the actors’ aim at this time.

This type of attack is harder to detect and stop from the user’s side due to this taking place on the server and not on the browser, and as such, local internet security tools won’t detect anything suspicious.

Supply chain attack?

The intrusion vector hasn’t been determined, so while this looks suspiciously close to a supply chain attack, it hasn’t been confirmed.

Bleeping Computer has contacted GoDaddy to find out more about this possibility, but we have not heard back yet.

Notably, GoDaddy disclosed a data breach in November 2021 that affected 1.2 million customers and multiple Managed WordPress service resellers, including the six mentioned in the introduction.

That breach involved unauthorized access to the system that provisions the company’s Managed WordPress sites. As such, it’s not far-fetched to suggest that the two occurrences might be linked.

In any case, if your website is hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress platform, make sure to scan your wp-config.php file to locate potential backdoor injections.

spam search engine results
What the injected encoded backdoor looks like (Wordfence)

Wordfence also reminds admins that while removing the backdoor should be the first step, removing spam search engine results should also be a priority.

Looking Global – we have WordPress Updates South Africa – https://www.wordpressupdates.co.za, WordPress Updates Ireland – https://wordpressupdates.ie and Global WordPress Updates – https://wordpressupdates.com

Links to article:

Wordpress Updates South Africa

Origional article – click here

WordPress Basics

Featured image size

A good starting point for your WordPress featured image size is 1200 x 628 pixels. These dimensions tend to work well across WordPress themes and page layouts, and also look good when shared on social media feeds

WordPress Featured Image Size
1200 x 628 pixels

A featured image visually represents a post or page on your WordPress website. Featured images usually appear on your website at the top of posts. They also appear when you share your posts outside of your WordPress site, like on social media or news websites. The purpose of the featured image is to draw readers to your content and signal what your posts are about and reinforce your site’s tone and branding.

Metadata

Metadata isn’t important to the average person. This is despite the fact that the average person takes photos on their phone and uploads them online. The metadata on these photos contains the exact location the photo was taken. It’s a captured automatically and no one really thinks twice

image metadata
Protect your images

WooCommerce

Category image size

A minimum WooCommerce image size of 800 to 1000 pixels is recommended for standard products. If you have more complicated and detailed products, a larger image (e.g., 2000 pixels and above) will let customers zoom in to see the item’s details. So if you choose 800 then make it square 800px x 800px

G&M Joyce Construction Ltd

Mayo Construction needed

G&M Joyce Construction Ltd. is based in Westport, Co Mayo. Set up in 1996 the company provides a wide range of general construction services including bespoke housing construction, farm maintenance, groundworks and landscaping.

Started carrying out ground works for estate houses and commenced private house development.

In 1996 we started our own construction company, G&M Joyce Construction LTD and started specialising in building one off houses.  We are a small Company that gives personal attention to each customer and over the last 25 years we have developed our expertise in this area.


We have also branched out into landscaping groudworks,  patio, decking and fencing and continue to provide farming works including land reclaimation, hedge trimming and construction of farm buildings.

If you need help to build a house, we can help you 

  • New Builds
  • Foundations
  • Ground Work
  • Farm Buildings

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Transferring Your Wix Domain Away from Wix

If you have purchased a domain from Wix, you can later transfer it to another domain host. 

To transfer your Wix domain away from Wix:

  1. Go to the Domains page.
  2. Click the Show More icon  next to the relevant domain and select Transfer Away from Wix.
To transfer your Wix domain away from Wix
  1. Click Transfer Domain.
  2. Click I Still Want to Transfer

Next steps:

  • As soon as you click I Still Want to Transfer, we’ll send a transfer authorization code (EPP code) to your domain’s registrant contact email address
  • Once you get the code, follow the instructions from your new domain provider to transfer your domain. 
  • It can take up to 7 days for the transfer to complete.

In accordance with ICANN rules:

  • You cannot transfer a domain within 60 days of purchase.
  • Changing your registrant contact information locks your domain from transfer for 60 days.
  • Transferring your domain locks it from being able to transfer again for 60 days. 

Net zero emission

We wanna do our part in taking onboard Net Zero Emission companies so that we can help give our future generations with an earth they can be proud of.

#Netzeroemission: Net zero emission means that all man-​made greenhouse gas emissions must be removed from the atmosphere through reduction measures, thus reducing the Earth’s net climate balance, after removal via natural and artificial sink, to zero. This way humankind would be carbon neutral and global temperature would stabilise.

Hosted on Managed Dedicated Servers

Reliable hosting you can count on 24 hours a day.

It takes courage to create and grow a business. You’ll need a reliable hosting partner to help you get your business online and to support you as you grow. We’re here to make sure your website stays up, stays fast and stays supported.

Choose a website hosting package based on your business needs. Includes email accounts, unlimited traffic and SSD storage space.

Web Hosting packages include

  • 99.9% uptime guarantee
  • Webmail
  • SSD storage
  • DDoS protection & mitigation
  • HTTP/2 enabled
  • Control Panel
  • 24/7 technical support
  • ModSecurity
  • Unlimited traffic
  • Popular CMSs supported
  • PHP 8 & MySQL
  • spam filtering
  • WordPress easy install
  • Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS
  • backups

CMS (Content Management System) “Mambo”

Mambo was a free software/open source content management system for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. Its last release was in 2008, by which time all of the developers had left for forks of the project, mainly Joomla and MiaCMS

A CMS typically has two major components: a content management application (CMA), as the front-end user interface that allows a user, even with limited expertise, to add, modify, and remove content from a website without the intervention of a webmaster; and a content delivery application (CDA), that compiles the content and updates the website.

There are two types of CMS installation: on-premises and cloud-based. On-premises installation means that the CMS software can be installed on the server. This approach is usually taken by businesses that want flexibility in their setup. Notable CMSs which can be installed on-premises are WordPress.org, Drupal, Joomla, ModX and others.

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