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• Philip says:

  15 Sep15 September 06:33

  Key lesson, Rob – Don’t try out plugins on a live site 🙁

  • John says:

    15 Sep15 September 07:56

    Well it’s not like HFP holds the credit records of 300 million people…

    • Rob says:

      15 Sep15 September 08:08

      We don’t run a parallel testing version. If we change stuff it is always real time which is why you may see things go a bit funny occasionally.

• Mikeact says:

  15 Sep15 September 07:54

  Really appreciate the WhatsApp App.

• Rtid says:

  15 Sep15 September 08:17

  O/T – does anyone know if the URL link to upgrade an Amex Gold to Platinum still exists?

  • JamesB says:

    15 Sep15 September 08:22

    It wasvposted in comments yesterday or day before but I cannot recall which article sorry. Try Barclays first then the bits articles.

  • Genghis says:

    15 Sep15 September 08:39

    It exists, yes.

    • TripRep says:

      15 Sep15 September 09:46

      Has there been any anecdotal evidence of Amex reacting to folks upgrading and then cancelling Plat shortly after hitting send target?

      ie will it damage their chance of getting another Amex in 6 months time?

      • Wally1976 says:

        15 Sep15 September 12:07

        No problem as far as I’m aware.

        • Genghis says:

          15 Sep15 September 13:38

          Not come across anything. Amex employee when Mrs G was cancelling her SPG card the other day, “See you in 6 months for another sign up bonus, Mrs G”. I’ve had it quite a few times too in the past

      • JamesB says:

        15 Sep15 September 14:31

        Done exactly that twice in last 14 months. No issues getting another card. I will be trying again when council tax comes around next March.

• Andrew says:

  15 Sep15 September 08:46

  That explains why the site is currently unusable on Firefox. The screens up and down like whore’s knickers – I’ve been blaming the Google Ad videos..

  • Hector Grebbell says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:01

    Chrome does the same thing. right click the ad -> Inspect -> Look up the tree for the highest up iframe that contains the ad space and delete it.

    • Rob says:

      15 Sep15 September 10:08

      I have told Google to kill this ad source but they say it takes 24 hours to filter though and that won’t be until the end of the day.

      Annoyingly there is no way of blocking Google from showing all video ads (which, frankly, seem to be aimed at a different sort of audience to HFP readers anyway). Interestingly they tend to appear in the lower boxes which implies they don’t pay much.

• Joan says:

  15 Sep15 September 08:56

  I can see Facebook and Twitter buttons at the bottom of the articles but not Whatsapp ? ☹️

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:10

    That’s the emails. On desktop and mobile you will see it. We don’t have an option to add it to emails.

• BP says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:43

  Hi Rob,

  It’s always best not to get hacked in the first place rather than paying for a recovery service. Make sure you have a strong password on your admin accounts and make sure this password isn’t reused anywhere else. Update your wordpress plugins EVERY day and remove any plugins that you don’t use.

  • Rob says:

    15 Sep15 September 10:09

    We do that, but it doesn’t help when trying to find a new plug-in to do something specific – especially when, as was the case here, it was a rather esoteric thing.

• Leonid says:

  15 Sep15 September 09:52

  Hi Rob,

  It’s very interesting and it would actually be great to get a few more insights into running a site like HfP. A separate article somewhere? I am sure a lot of people would find your experience and hints & tips extremely useful.

• Dave says:

  15 Sep15 September 10:06

  very much a case of what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger 😉

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