Monday 2 May 2016

6 Paypal Security Updates NOT to miss

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The 6 Paypal security updates to be compliant, or risk your online business

 

 Note: there has been a revision to the timeline. View my latest post  for updates.

 

Code, Hacker, Data, Security, Technology, Digital

If you have received an email from PayPal with the title "Changes required to your PayPal integration to continue accepting payments.", then yes you are not alone. It does seem pretty important and a quick check on PayPal's developer site will indicate that it is legit (just in case its spam).

It states that it is going to perform security updates very soon in the beginning months of 2016, and quickly answers that 'yes' you do need to take action, otherwise suffer the consequences of a non functioning payment gateway.

If you like me found their official instructions too detailed and difficult to digest, allow me to present you my own infographic with action timelines included. This will allow you to concentrate on the urgent action items first, and tackle them one at a time.


Get Paypal Security Upgrade Infographic



Saturday 19 March 2016

Onetone theme and SEO Yoast or All-in-one seo or any other

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SEO and Onetone theme

I happily chose the Onetone theme from MageeWP for its simplicity and claims of SEO capability. I spent lots of hours filling up the content and polishing the site. BUT little did i know that the most popular SEO plugins like Yoast and All-in-one seo does not just work properly off the bat after installation.

What i found was that my canonical URL and other meta information was displaying wrongly on my home page. Going straight to wordpress settings in "Reading" and playing around did not help anything. I had to muck around for quite a few hours before settling on one way to do this. It is no beauty but it works.

>> This post is for those who are not setting the blog as their homepage, but is trying to use the theme's homepage. What i did was to disable the SEO plugin on the homepage, and replace with my own meta tags.

1. First you would need to disable your SEO plugin which i describe in a post. In the post i describe how you can selectively disable your plugin on the theme's home page. You should set the file path to 'wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php' if you are using Yoast.

2. In my case, I parsed the URL to only disable the plugin for the homepage.

3. Now, we can edit the theme's header.php file, and include our meta tags as we wish.


Feel free to post what worked or did not work for you.