↓Captain Spider Technologies, LLCNon nobis, Domine, non nobis sed nomini Tuo da gloriamHomeMenu ↓Skip to primary contentSkip to secondary contentHomeAboutServicesWeb Site ServicesWordPress TrainingHomeCategoriesNews (12)Things to Think About (1)WordPress Development Tidbits (2)Mail Address:Terry Glidden9459 County Road 105 NWPine Island, MN 55963(just North of Rochester, MN)BabaYaga MalwarePosted on June 6, 2018  by  cswdAdminWell, this is interesting. A new WordPress malware that eats other malware! Wordfence put out a blog post talking about a new malware making its rounds – they dubbed it BabaYaga.I love the “a good parasite wants to keep its host alive” statement.Here is a link to their whitepaper – BabaYaga – The Self Healing WordPress Malware.Posted in News| Tagged malware, wordfence, wordpressAethra Botnet Attacks WordPress SitesPosted on January 5, 2016  by  tkgAccording to an announcement from Wordfence on December 23, 2015 there is a a botnet that is exploiting a vulnerability on Aethra modem/routers to do brute force password guesses on WordPress sites. For more information see their blog post: Aethra Botnet Attacks WordPress Sites. The researcher “discovered that all the Aethra devices involved in the attack were using default login credentials (blank/blank).” So, this is a reminder to change all your default passwords on your devices.Posted in News| Tagged attack, botnet, wordfenceWordPress Development TidbitsPosted on December 15, 2015  by  tkgWordPress has Theme Unit Test data that contains all the different type of post/page data as long as quite a number of posts (39 published posts, and in total, has installed 41 posts) and pages (something like 10 or 15). There is a Monster Widget plugin that will allow you to place one widget that contains all the widgets that are available from WordPress (archives, categories, pages, etc). There is also another plugin that will help in development to sync the sites: WP Migrate DB Pro and is covered in the “WordPress Plugins, Moving WordPress with WP Migrate DB” course.Posted in WordPress Development Tidbits| Tagged plugins, theme developmentTheme AccessibilityPosted on December 13, 2015  by  tkgAccessibility for WordPress with Joe DolsonJoe talks about a cool Chrome plugin (NoCoffe) that can be used to simulate multiple vision disabilities. Joe uses a free screen reader called NVAD for testing. Using fancy JavaScript to add something to the page will not trigger a screen reader, I may need to test my AJAX enabled plugins. :-( Never use a div for an element such as the search since it isn’t typically a event trigger and will not be picked up by screen readers and you can’t tab to it.Color contrast is important for showing links in text if you don’t want to underline the link text. You need a 4.5:1 contrast between the link and background and a 3:1 contrast between the link and surrounding text. There is a plugin called Access Monitor that you