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Implementing Chat on Your WordPress Site
One of the most common questions we get is, "Should I add chat functionality to my site?" My answer is always the same: Absolutely! And… No way! First, Let's Define Chat Adding chat to your website allows visitors to instantly connect with you or your staff to get...
Read Meter Always Shows 1 Minute Read Time
After installing the Read Meter plugin on our site we realized there is a major issue: the Read Meter Plugin always displays 1 minute regardless of the length of the blog post. Fortunately, there is a easy fix for this. Why Does Read Meter Always Display 1 minute? If...
Enabling Classic Editor in Divi
Enabling the WordPress Classic Editor in DiviAKA - Disabling GutenbergWordPress 5.0 introduced "Gutenberg" the block editor that allows for moving blocks of content around. It's named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press and the...
Blocking Fastwebnet.it from Accessing Your WordPress Site
This article contains the steps required to block Fastwebnet.it from accessing your WordPress site using the Wordfence plugin. Fastwebnet.it or simply "fastweb" is an Italian ISP operating under the name "Fastweb SpA,IT" from which a large number of WordPress...
Blocking Albacom from Accessing Your WordPress Site
This article contains the steps required to block Albacom.net from accessing your WordPress site using the Wordfence plugin. Albacom.net is an Italian ISP operating under the name "BT Italia S.p.A.,IT" from which a large number of WordPress brute-force hacking...
Blocking Kyivstar From Accessing Your WordPress Site
Recently we had a rash of brute-force hacking attempts on a variety of WordPress sites that we manage. The commonality in the attacks is that they all originated from the Ukraine - more specifically they all came from the Kyivstar ISP. A user with...





