Web Development

How the Heartbleed Bug May Affect You and What You Should Do About It

The Heartbleed bug was found in a certain version of OpenSSL last week. How does this bug affect you? Here is an explanation of the bug in cartoon format: Heartbleed Bug Cartoon If you are hosting your site with Cullen Web Services, your website was not affected. We didn’t use the version of OpenSSL that

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Why I Will Never Use First Data Global E4 Gateway API and Will Try to Discourage My Clients

One of my most popular posts of all time is about integrating First Data payment processing with a website. I’ve had several clients who have First Data accounts and they’ve seemed happy with their account, so I decided to give them a try. OMG I wish I hadn’t. It cost me SO much money. It

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Hiding my Pop-up When a Visitor Returns if They've Chosen Not to See it Again

I mentioned the sliding pop-up that my client wanted on her page here. I fixed it where it would pop-up – or slide in – every time someone visited the home page. After the first couple of visits, I was irritated by the pop-up and didn’t want to see it again. I assume that other

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Increase the Security on Digital Downloads – Change the Folder Name Every Day Automatically in WordPress

I want downloads from my site to be secure without locking my customers out too. Many security solutions I’ve seen often keep the purchaser out as well. Passwords are often forgotten and either cause the customer a headache or it’s a headache for me to try to support the purchase by constantly looking for or

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PayPal Payment Data Transfer (PDT) – Getting PayPal Information Returned to Your Site

My client has digital products that need to be downloaded after a user clicks on a PayPal Buy Now button. If I set Payment Data Transfer up in her PayPal account, PayPal will return back to my site to a page that I specify in her PayPal account. It will return all the information about

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Test My PayPal Buy Now Buttons on My WordPress Site for PayPal PDT

My client has several digital products for sale. She has several buy now buttons hosted at PayPal. Hosted buttons have their own unique ID’s. To test these buttons, I need to set up the same buttons in my PayPal sandbox merchant account. When I do, they give me different button ID’s. Ugghh. Sure makes testing

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