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From Belfast comes the news that WordCamp has sold out*! As a sponsors, we’re delighted, and we’re looking forward to taking part in the event over the weekend. (*There is a handful of places still available at the free Contributor Event on Friday afternoon). As Abha Thakor explained in our podcast earlier this week, WordCamp […]
Here at Blacknight, we were delighted to have an opportunity to sponsor WordCamp Dublin last month. So many of our customers (and staff) use WordPress, and over the years, we’ve seen WordPress go from a small open-source blogging project, into a platform for business, an ecosystem for developers and a global community of empowered users. […]
We’ve already celebrated the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. On 12 March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for a distributed system of hyperlinked documents on the internet. Just over two years later, the web went public, when Berners -Lee began posting details of The WWW Project on newsgroups, beginning on 6 August 1991. […]
Michele, our CEO, has posted about the launch of the new .BLOG domain, which has just entered its sunrise phase. Trademark owners can apply for their domains from now until October 17, and we are also taking pre-registration applications for the later Landrush and General Availability phases. Meanwhile, our company blog has a new home, at Blacknight.blog. In many ways, […]
We receive many calls about “making my site show up in Google”. While we don’t offer web development services, nor are we SEO consultants, we deal with the topic on a daily basis. Seeing as it’s such a necessity to so many of our clients, we wrote an article which should be of help to […]
Yesterday, Sunday 24th January 2016, accompanied by the IEDR, Blacknight attended Showcase Ireland’s Creative Expo®. On behalf of Blacknight, armed with merely a laptop and a PowerPoint presentation I spoke to a full house on the topic ‘Boosting your online business and success’. Presentation overview Search engine optimisation Content Management Webmaster tools & tricks Tips […]
Saturday last saw myself and colleague Justyna attend the inaugural Irish Parenting Blog Awards in our capital city, Dublin. A night of networking, trending, (the #IPBAWARDS were trending on Twitter!) and excitement was had by all. It was a testament to the organizers how professionally the awards ceremony were run, and of course Blacknight were proud […]
We try to keep our WordPress users up to date on what’s happening with regards to new releases of WordPress and we even mention the odd plugin. So this is another one of those “keep your website up to date” posts with a look at a rather useful plugin. Of course the stats are pretty […]
Earlier this year, more than 162,000 unsuspecting legitimate WordPress websites were used for DDoS attacks within a few hours. The Problem Attackers abused the WordPress pingback feature allowing websites to cross-reference blog posts. By sending hundreds of spoofed requests per second to the /xmlrpc.php file making these requests appear to come from the target site, […]
We’re usually pretty quick to offer advice about upgrading your WordPress installs. If you’re running an App Vault install only upgrade from within Blacknight Control Panel -> Application Vault (tab) -> WordPress when an update becomes available. If you’re running a self install of WordPress then you’ll want to do one or two things first. […]
You know those blog posts that you start, come back to, restart, completely scrap and then start again? This is one of those posts. This weekend saw myself and Michele our CEO heading for Leiden, Holland. Fun fact Leiden is the home of Armin van Buuren, but unfortunately for us he wasn’t the chosen DJ […]
I met José Fontainhas aka Zé at Webfest last year. And we’ve been in touch on and off ever since. So when he told me that he was one of the organisers of WordCamp Europe I immediately suggested that we sponsor the event. So months later, lots of emails and now James and I are […]