I’ve started to use an excellent tool called Canva.com to create images for blog posts, ads and other online needs, here is my video Canva review. Canva is a freemium online  image manipulation tool, I have been using it for about one month and as a non-designer I am very very happy with the results.  It is free to sign-up but there are some advanced options which costs $11 per month. I’ve struggled with very expensive and complicated image manipulation tools such as Photoshop. Canva solves that. I’m no designer, Canva also solves that with pre-made look and feels. Lets […]

The Facebook page plugin (or like box as it used to be called) is a way to showbcase your Facebook page on your website away from Facebook itself.

Do you need an activity log for your WordPress site? Are weird things happening on your website? Are things changing, but you never did anything? Is someone messing with your sites config? A great tool to monitor what is happening on your site is a plugin called Activity Log. https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/ What It Does It captures all activity on your site.  New posts, edits, starting and stopping plugins etc etc. It records the time and date, what happened, the user that made the activity and the IP address.  The IP address can be used to pinpoint the location of the user […]

Most of the time your WordPress site will chug along happily, but when it breaks, the information available to you is limited. Debugging your WordPress site to find errors is a pretty simple thing. Trouble shooting any issues on your WordPress site becomes much easier if you put your site in debug mode.  In this post I will tell you how to do that so you can get to the root of your problems more quickly. Hidden Messages By default WordPress or more correctly the underlying scriptng language php, hides it’s error and warning messages.  It does this because many of […]

Google have announced that running your site over https will improve your search rankings, see this post for more details. In this post I will take you through making your WordPress site run over HTTPS. I’ve decided to make ibraininc.com run over https in its entirety, this post will show you how to do this. What Is HTTPS HTTPS is the secure form of https or hyper text transfer protocol, the way web pages are served from your webserver to your browser. When you move to https everything is encrypted between your web server and your browser so no one […]