If you’re one of the millions of people using WordPress you’ll probably be targeted by a hacker at least once in your blogging career. Don’t take it personally, hackers simply target the most popular platforms. Thankfully, there are six easy steps you can take to secure your WordPress installations and make difficult, if not impossible for a hacker to harm your website.
WordPress users have been subjected to an incredible amount of hype surrounding the topic of search engine optimization (SEO). They’ve been told WordPress is an SEO friendly platform, there are countless SEO plugins in the repositiory, and almost every premium theme on the market claims to be able to improve your site’s SEO.
Given that environment, [...]
Update: If you don’t want to pay $39 for All in One SEO Pack PRO here’s a free alternative that has the exact same functionality. It also doesn’t require that you continue to pay $39/mo for updates.
As I installed the All In One SEO Pack (AIOSEOP) plugin on a new site today, I noticed the [...]
Update: WordPress 2.9.1 has been officially released and it seems to have addressed the variety of issues that occurred when upgrading, as well as a problem people had with scheduled posts. I gave it a shot on the two sites that choked on 2.9 and it worked seamlessly so I think it’s safe to upgrade at this point.
Family time, year end reports, budgeting for next year, planning for next year, returning gifts… while this may be the “most wonderful time of the year” it’s often the busiest as well.
Naturally tasks on the lower end of the priority spectrum, such as updating the copyright date on your website, tend to drop off our radar.
Thankfully, with a small snippet of code, you won’t ever have to worry about updating the copyright date again!
Update: I figured it was probably time for me to update my review of Gravity Forms, the premium plugin for WordPress forms. You see, when I wrote this the first time, Gravity Forms had just been released & I’d only played around with it on this site.
In fact, I didn’t think the developer license would be worth the added cost.
Boy was I wrong…
Word on the street is that some WordPress blogs are being hit with a brute force attack that is essentially a script that continuously tries to guess the admin’s password.
Dennis Fisher has all the details over on Threatpost summing up the threat with the following:
The wp_brute_attempt() function takes 3 parameters, $ch which is cURL’s structure [...]
In my continuing effort to provide Thesis skins, and after the success of my first skin, Network News Skin, I’ve decided to release another free skin for all you Thesis theme users out there.
This time around I decided on a completely unique design that would cater to photographers, artists, and just about anyone else that would want to showcase their work. I present:
In the WordPress world there’s no quicker and easier way to start a passionate debate than to bring up the issue of the GPL.
For those of you new to the discussion, the GPL is the license under which WordPress is distributed. It states, in part, that you’re free to modify and build on the code [...]
When I declared that Premium Themes Are Dead, I received a LOT of feedback arguing that there will always be a market for premium themes since they give you a head start on the design process.
My response was that skins for framework themes such as Thesis provide that same “leg up” on the design and layout, without sacrificing any of the flexibility.
And, while I firmly believe that, there is one slight problem… there just aren’t many skins available yet.
So in an effort to help my prediction about premium themes come true, I decided to create a free Thesis Skin that heavily mimics one of my favorite premium theme designs.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce…
