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Preventing spam with Akismet and Contact form 7


By mcvanrensburg  | 

 November 19th, 2012 | 



Spammers regularly target Wordpress contact form and recently this has become a huge problem. Luckily, there are ways to combat spammers using Akismet in combination with the great plugin Contact form 7.   Wordpress comes with Akismet pre-installed, so all you have to do is to setup your free account and get ...


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How to log into the WordPress Backend – Quick Tutorial


By mcvanrensburg  | 

 April 5th, 2012 | 



Once you have setup you Wordpress website, or your web developer has set it up for you, you may be wondering, how the heck to I log into the backend again? To some of us this may be a stupid question, but for those of that need an answer, its ...


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How to format posts in WordPress


By mcvanrensburg  | 

 April 5th, 2012 | 



Within this article I will discuss basic post formatting in Wordpress, both in the Visual and HTML views. Personally, I like to switch between the two when posting new content, because both of the editors(views) brings something different to the table. The Visual editor makes things a little easier as ...


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How to use Google Fonts on your website


By mcvanrensburg  | 

 November 26th, 2011 | 



Google fonts has really made it easy for developers to find 100's of free fonts to use on their websites, and the best part is all these fonts are free and can be easy setup to show on any website, with a few easy steps.   Find a link to Google Fonts ...


wamp

Wamp Error: Could not execute menu item (internal error)


By mcvanrensburg  | 

 November 25th, 2011 | 



Most of us who runs an Apache server using WAMP or XAMPP, have once upon a time run into this error Could not execute menu item (internal error). I must admit it has given one or two headaches in the past, but luckily I have found a easy fix that ...