I own over 100 domains. When I get a bright idea, I buy a domain. Then I install WordPress and set it up. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way and bright ideas are left for days, months, or even years without doing anything with them. If you have left the ability to comment on…

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Starting around April 11, 2013 Hostgator and a number of other hosting providers became aware of a brute force botnet attack against their servers and specifically targeting WordPress sites. What is a BotNet Attack? A botnet attack is an automated computer generated attack against a web server. This specific attack is enormous with security experts…

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Two of the best ways to add more security to your WordPress site is to change the default administrator login username and to change the default database prefix. With these two changes, hackers won’t be invited to easily hack your site and modify your pages, deface your site or completely ruin it.  Now both of…

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I have used WP-Robot in the past to populate some of my blogs with content. Its a great way to grab content ideas from the major article directories and then rewrite/modify the article – add your own information and post. A much better way than starting from scratch writing an article for a site. Unfortunately,…

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A very important step in securing a WordPress site is to remember not to use the name ‘admin’ for the administrator account. Many automatic installers for WordPress will create an admin user as the log in administrative user for the entire site.  Because of this, hackers have half of their job already done when they’ve…

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I had an annoying problem while working on a new WordPress site for a client. When I tried to load the site into multiple browsers to test compatibility, the page loaded unbearably slow if it loaded at all. In order to troubleshoot the issue, as with most WordPress issues, I completely disabled all the plugins…

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One of the first things you’ll hear when you start trying to “make money on the Internet” is the term “set it and forget it”. In other words, setup a site, create content, build traffic to it and then let it set to make money passively. However, when you are dealing with WordPress sites, its…

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When I start a new blog, many times I will go into Settings, Privacy, and block search engines from accessing pages on the site until I can get a homepage and secondary pages and posts developed, proofread, and checked for errors. When the site or homepage is ready, I will go into the Settings and…

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One of the more annoying issues with WordPress is its tendency to remove all extra spacing and line breaks from a post or page. I like my posts to look good and be easy to read, so I add line breaks between unordered or ordered lists and elsewhere in my post to make the post…

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I was updating a blog the other day DownloadHoyleGames.com, that I own and everything worked fine until I decided to log into the admin interface. As soon as I tried to go to the wp-admin login I was greeted with the following error message from WordPress: Fatal error: Call to undefined function screen_icon() in /wp-admin/includes/file.php…

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