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One of my customer’s WordPress installations was hacked and turned into an attack site over the weekend.
I got a plea for help on New Year’s Day because she couldn’t view her site or log in – she just got an error message whenever she tried to do either.
When I reviewed the file that was referred [...]
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Yes, it can is the short answer.
I used to think of a theme as nothing more than a nice colour scheme when I first started blogging. As long as I liked the colours, and as long as it had enough sidebars, I was a happy camper.
How wrong I was.
WordPress themes have progressed enormously since [...]
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I was helping someone get their blog configured the other day and we came to setting up WP-Security-Scan – one of the plugins I do recommend.
It takes you through some pretty straightforward steps that will strengthen your WordPress installation against mass bot hack attacks.
One of the recommendations it makes is to change your login user [...]
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Back here I wrote about the benefits of using as few plugins as possible on your site.
As is typically me, this has turned into a bit of a crusade (removing plugins from my site, that is).
Here, again, are the reasons for my crusade:
Plugins can slow down site load times, they may fall behind WordPress developments [...]
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The 1-click installation service offered by most hosting providers for various applications is wonderful.
In particular, it’s opened up self-hosted WordPress blogging to a whole tribe of people who might have baulked at the manual installation.
But there are some things to keep in mind.
And please don’t take these as criticisms – they’re not, because most of [...]
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