A List of Basic Safety Plugins for WordPress I’m doing a lot of server setups right now for brand new websites and recently updated my basic plugins list. Of course it depends on what kind of website you have, but I’ll share some of the ones I find really helpful in the fight against annoying … Read more
Updated July 25, 2013 WordPress 3.6 looks to have some nifty user friendly options that overall will make using WordPress easier. Some highly convenient updates to make your blogging easier include: Improved handling of video and audio embeds, upload and WP puts in the player for users to see your video/audio. Scarp the code embeds … Read more
I’ve come to the conclusion there are now three topics you can’t discuss with people: religion, politics, and webhosts. Yes, webhosts! What is essentially a business service people are loyal to their webhost provider, vehemently so! I’m guilty; I’ve done the same thing. You can be with a webhost provider and never have any problems … Read more
Over the past two weeks, webhost companies and security monitoring services for websites, have warned of large scale Botnet Brute-Force attacks underway to compromise WordPress sites. Botnets Using Brute-Force Programs What are these Brute-Force login attacks? These attacks by botnets are automated programs from virus-infected PCs, used to target your WordPress login page. These botnets … Read more
You carefully crafted the wording of your website, people love the design – you feel confident your business has a good presence on the web. But suddenly out of the blue you receive the dreaded email “Google detected malware on your site.” Yikes! Your first call is of course to your webhost (physical location of … Read more