security Archives - Lance Cleveland

Jetpack Backup/Restore Connection Failing On Lightsail

February 15, 2023Lance Cleveland

AWS Lightsail provides a quick and easy way to stand up WordPress instances with minimal effort for people with a moderate amount of tech skills. It does come with some…Continue readingJetpack Backup/Restore Connection Failing On Lightsail

Security Web Presence WordPress

WordPress Registration Captcha

February 8, 2023Lance Cleveland

I recently reworked my LanceCleveland.com site, merging the previous Lance.Bio blog site with my CTO.LanceCleveland.com site. As soon as the new site went online and allowed for users to register…Continue readingWordPress Registration Captcha

Productivity Technology

LastPass Autofill Not Working

December 1, 2022Lance Cleveland

In addition to the recent trouble at LastPass regarding yet another security breach (thankfully they use a “no knowledge” approach to storing data), LastPass has another major problem looming. It…Continue readingLastPass Autofill Not Working

Security WordPress

Hate Spam? Turn Off Jetpack Email Sharing

March 30, 2020February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

The past few days have been spent diagnosing various email delivery issues from the AWS web cluster that is running our WordPress plugin store as well as our SaaS locator…Continue readingHate Spam? Turn Off Jetpack Email Sharing

Security Security Technology WordPress

WordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security

December 18, 2018Lance Cleveland

In what has become a nearly annual tradition, WordPress has released yet another update that broke thousands of plugins across the Internet. As usual, they claim this is in…Continue readingWordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security

AWS Security Technology

Install A Name.com SSL Cert On Amazon Linux

August 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

Get Your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) From Amazon Linux: cd /etc/ssl openssl req -new -key vim <domain>.<tld>.key -out <domain>.<tld>.csr Buy Your Certificate From Name.com purchase a cert for either a…Continue readingInstall A Name.com SSL Cert On Amazon Linux

Technology

Bitbucket Permission Denied / Conq

April 13, 2016Lance Cleveland

Hopefully this article will save at least one other person an hour of their life trying to figure out why they cannot clone a Bitbucket repository when using SSH. My…Continue readingBitbucket Permission Denied / Conq

Plugin Development Security WordPress

Adding WordPress REST API Security To Basic CRUD Operations

March 24, 2016Lance Cleveland

Work has been underway adding REST API functionality to the Store Locator Plus plugin. Most people are familiar with the basic concept of using REST to fetch data from a…Continue readingAdding WordPress REST API Security To Basic CRUD Operations