Introducing Project Force Field: Protect Your Website!

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Orion Group

Save your WordPress sites and servers from certain death during brute force attacks with Project Force Field by Orion Group!  Install the plugin and start protecting your website in under 10 seconds!

The developers at Orion Group bring superior brute force attack protection to WordPress with our new plugin, Project Force Field. By tracking failed login attempts and taking advantage of Apache’s mod_rewrite module, Project Force Field stops Brute Force Attacks from bogging down your sites and servers. Continue reading →

Chrome Bug: Text Not Loading

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Orion Group

A couple blog posts ago, I wrote about how fonts sometimes look pixelated and distorted in Chrome.  The developers at Orion Group have also noticed another issue with Chrome and text: sometimes, the text doesn’t load at all.  Sometimes, hovering over where text should be, or refreshing the page, makes the text appear.   Chrome developers are aware of the bug and you can track the progress of the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336476  It sounds like they are getting closer to a fix so hopefully this will be resolved soon.  But if you are a developer who needs a workaround now, here are some fixes. Continue reading →

YouTube Bug: Extra Parentheses in Embed Code

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Orion Group

Over the last few days or so, people have started to notice that when they try to embed a YouTube video into their website, and extra “)” appears at the end.  If you manually copy and paste this embed code into your website to add a video, you can simply remove the extra parentheses.  However, for those using a smart CMS like WordPress or other tool that grabs this embed code from the URL, this is a problem. Continue reading →

Why do fonts look pixelated in Chrome?

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Orion Group

As developers make websites, we come across a lot of funky things on the web and how browsers display websites.  Most are Internet Explorer issues, but once and a while we find a bug with Chrome or Firefox.  Recently, a bug in Chrome on Windows came to our attention that makes most fonts look pixelated and distorted. Here’s a picture words in both Chrome and Firefox.

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Milwaukee WordPress Meetup Group

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Orion Group

Have you been handed an existing WordPress website at work, church, or organization but need some help managing it?  Or have you decided to take up blogging and want to start writing on your own WordPress.com blog? Maybe you already know about other content management systems, but want to know more about WordPress?  There’s a local meetup group right here in the Milwaukee area that is 100% geared towards helping out the local WordPress community! Continue reading →

5 Questions for a More Effective Website

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Orion Group

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When you begin planning your new website, there are a few questions you need to ask yourself to be sure that your website truly reflects your brand image and is getting the job done.  Unfortunately, when it comes time to begin the process this doesn’t always happen.  Often, an organization will rush through the process without asking the proper questions only doing the minimum of the steps below Continue reading →