The business adage that “money is in the list” (ie, mailing list) is untrue if such list includes email addresses which had already opted out, or have requested to opt-out or unsubscribe.
By continuing to send commercial electronic messages to those who have already requested to opt-out is a breach of the Spam Act.
The Act [...]
Just when self-hosted bloggers are about to get warmed up to having WordPress version 2.5 – 2.7 (Yes, there are still those who are using version 2.5!), here comes the news that WordPress 2.0.x is already deprecated and retired.
By “deprecated” is meant that WordPress 2.0 is no longer supported especially for the very important security [...]
Some technical problems with our server during the last few weeks had distracted me from issuing my updates on this site. I could only find small gaps in my schedule which are just good enough to issue SMS-like updates in our Twitter account.
The issue with the server was more related to upgrades than anything [...]
Your site runs on WordPress and you want to hide posts which belong to certain categories or sub-categories from your front page, search or archives.
That should be an easy task.
These days, there are a number of WordPress plugins developed for that purpose and here are three of them:
Front Page Excluded Categories – Excludes [...]
Yesterday I received an email from a friend with a copy of a news reports obviously written from a World Health Organization media release. Part of the news report follows:
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WHO confirms 148 swine flu cases in nine countries
A total of 148 laboratory-confirmed human cases of swine flu A/H1N1 infection have been officially reported to the [...]
This morning, I suddenly remembered an article I wrote about ten years ago and published in one of the local papers in Sydney. The article, now reloaded in this post, was titled “How to create a permanent email address.”
In my original article, I suggested ways to creating an email address using your favorite domain [...]
Whether you are collecting email addresses via a subscription form in your website or not, it is best practice to have a page which outlines your website’s privacy policy.
A privacy policy page sets out your information collection practices. It also sets your website apart as one that is transparent. Although privacy legislations have been around [...]
With more than a dozen of operational and experimental websites in our group, how do we manage to upgrade the websites’ designs?
These days when most of our websites are on the WordPress platform, we avail of themes that are available in the market. Some are premium themes (meaning we paid for the license to use [...]