Important notice regarding phishing emails

Some of our customers may have received an email from abuse@imperialregistrations.com with a download link to an external website along with an USA telephone contact number.  Please be advised that this is a phishing attempt and not sent or authorized by 2020Media.  We have also discovered that a number of domain name registrars have also been affected by this.  These emails are being sent to the registrant email address fetched via the whois record associated with the Domain.

We advise you to delete the email immediately.

If you are unsure of the validity of the emails please check the email headers to determine the source and return path for the email address. If you require any assistance or have any questions regarding the email please contact us via our customer portal – https://pfs.2020media.com/my-messages.html

Here is a sample of what the fraudulent messages look like.

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14 Free Stock Photo Websites You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

I know. Trying to find great free stock photos isn’t easy. Complex license schemes makes it even harder. I’ve been using mostly unsplash.com for truly free images but here’s a list of 14 other free stock photo websites that provide some really amazing images. Travel Coffee Book photos.joshnh.com FancyCrave Negative Space Superfamous SplitShire Gratisography StockSnap […]

Source: 14 Free Stock Photo Websites You Probably Haven’t Heard Of – CSSIgniter

WordPress User Group London

Yesterday evening I went along for the first time to the WordPress User Group London (WPUGL).

This user group is managed via the popular Meetup.com site. You can find out more at http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-User-Group-London/

WPUGL brings together London’s community of WordPress users to share knowledge, tips, ideas and inspiration, helping each other get the most out of WordPress.
The organisers run free evening events in central London with an informal atmosphere, encouraging everyone to share their knowledge and learn from others.

Each event focuses on a specific aspect of WordPress. Meetups can include hands on ‘peer to peer’ workshops, advice from WordPress professionals and the chance to network with other WordPress users.

This meetup group is specifically for people who use WordPress in their business, jobs or personal projects and want a supportive local community to help them achieve their goals.  WPUGL is not a developer meetup but typically there are developers and industry professionals at events and who support the user community.

There is another WordPress user group – http://www.meetup.com/London-WordPress/ –  that is much more technical, mostly for developers (in my opinion), and 2020Media are often in attendence there too. Yet another, which is solely developer focussed is http://www.meetup.com/wp-hooked/

WordPress London User Group meetup 22nd September 2015
WordPress London User Group meetup 22nd September 2015

Last nights event was all about Theme Modification.

Organiser Eugene went through the steps involved in modifying a theme including

  • Starting point – does your theme do it already.
  • What is, and how to create a child theme.
  • CSS changes affecting design (stylesheet modification).
  • PHP changes affecting functionality (functions.php modification).
  • HTML change affecting layout (pages modification).

There was plenty of discussion amongst the approx 30 people who came along, with views for and against various suggestions happily coexisting.

The meeting ended at 9 o’clock. We’ll definitely be back! Talk on speeding up your site anyone?

 

 

 

WordPress › My Eyes Are Up Here « WordPress Plugins

Source: WordPress › My Eyes Are Up Here « WordPress Plugins

When WordPress automatically generates thumbnails, it sometimes doesn’t crop them in a way that is suitable for the image you’ve uploaded. If your image isn’t the correct format, and let’s face it, you never know what images people are uploading – you’ll run the risk of a badly cropped image. Not good. If you have a full portrait image of a person that you’ve uploaded, but you need the image to appear landscape, you’re in trouble! WordPress will centre the image so that you end up with person’s crotch. Not good. Or let’s say you have a landscape image, with a person’s face on the right hand side, but you need it to display in a square thumbnail. You’ll end up with half a face as WordPress centres the image.

What does the plugin do?

You can control how you want your WordPress thumbnails to appear on your website. Regardless of the image format you upload, you can either use the automatic face detector or if you want even more control, you can manually add hotspots.

 

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