Creative by Clark

Getting client sites ready for the WordPress 5.0 rollout. It was due next week on 19 Nov and has been postponed till 27 Nov, but most in my shoes are hopeful it will be further postponed till late Jan 2019. I really dislike the Gutenberg Editor and plan to keep sites on Classic Editor till theme and plugin developers come up with compatible versions that work flawlessly with Gutenberg. I will write a blog soon about this when I have a few spare moments.

This article underscores the importance of regular WordPress maintenance and best practices when customizing existing plugins. Very scary exploit!

How Hackers are Hiding Content & Links via PNG Files For nearly 7 years (of my 19 year SEO career) I did “forensic SEO”. From dealing with penalties, hacked sites to general traffic loss, sorting out why things are going wrong was my life. Over that time I’ve seen a lot of nasty hacks and negative SEO attacks. Recently, I was inadvertently dragg...

New post added at Creative by Clark - Postman SMTP Replaced by Post SMTP

Postman SMTP Replaced by Post SMTP - Creative by Clark SMTP to the rescue for WordPress email non-delivery WordPress has a built-in mail script, but unfortunately, there is a high rate of delivery failure using wp_mail(), as many Internet Service Providers consider it insecure and block. There is a presumption that the email being sent via WordPress