One of the best things about using WordPress to publish information for the web is the fact that it is interactive. Viewers can subscribe to your blog and then post comments and interact with other users on the site. Unfortunately, spammers invade the users list as well and cause your database to swell with junk….
Tables are an old school way of displaying information on a web page. I’ve used tables since I started working with HTML back in 1994. With the creation of CSS, tables quickly became an old way of displaying columnized data. However, it is still one of the most effective ways of displaying columns and tables…
WordPress is an easy to use content management solution that can be installed on a domain in a matter of minutes. It makes creating a website easy and dare I say fun! However, if you have more than one wordpress site it can be a time consuming process to manage WordPress. For security reasons, you’ll…
I have domains, and specifically WordPress sites, on several different servers. Most of the time when I update plugins, its a simple click and the plugin updates automatically. However, on some domains the update process halts to ask for FTP server information including the server name, login username, and password. I have to type this…
One of the best things about WordPress is the built-in upgrade options for the core files. WordPress pops up a notice when you log into the Admin panel that an upgrade is ready. You click on the automatic upgrade link and wait a few minutes and your core wordpress files are updated automatically with ease…….
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
