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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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I saw one of those VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS NOW posts in a forum the other day. It was all about how WordPress could get us banned from the search engines.
I normally don’t go anywhere near posts with titles like that, but considering the mutual love affair between Google and WordPress I was intrigued.
Apparently [...]
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If you read (and remember) any of my articles from a few years back you can take me to task now.
Because back then I raved about plugins and added them to my WordPress sites at will.
But I’ve changed my mind.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some excellent plugins that do great jobs.
But they can also [...]
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I see a lot of questions asking how to make a WordPress post sticky.
A sticky post is one that stays on the front page of your blog so that, same as sticky posts in forums, it will always be displaid first.
What’s the point of that?
It depends on the content of your blog, but any post [...]
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Many thanks to Jake Hyten for asking this question: how to set up the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin.
Thanks for your question, Jake – and the steps follow with the greatest of pleasure
Firstly, why would you want to install the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin?
Because it creates a sitemap for the Google, Bing, [...]
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Another question I see quite often is people asking how to copy a post developed in Word into WordPress.
I create all my posts initially in either Word or Open Office, because with both of those packages I get spelling and grammar checking and the ability to test different layouts.
Once you’re satisfied with the layout, and [...]
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How can I SEO my WordPress blog? How can I make it easy to find on-line?
Those are questions I see quite often in the forums.
The fact is, your WordPress blog is already pretty search engine friendly.
If you don’t believe me take it from Matt Cutts, head of anti-spam at Google – here’s what he says [...]
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Here’s a question I see over and over again in different forums: ‘Why does WordPress attract so much spam? I didn’t get any on my Blogger blog’.
There are a couple of reasons for this: firstly WordPress is targetted because it’s such a popular platform.
Secondly, if you don’t activate Akismet, the anti spam plugin that [...]
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