New Sites – October 2009

Even before he graduated Life University in 1996, David K. Scheiner, D.C., had a strong desire to find ways to more fully express life and wholeness, both physically and spiritually — and to help others reach that same goal. Chiropractic allowed him to realize that aspiration. This site features his new book, Chiropractic Revealed: One [...]

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Worry About Your Site Being Hacked? Use WordPress File Monitor to Alert You to Changes at Your Site

Hackers are out there, that’s for sure. It’s a threat we all live with as website owners. We can take protective measures, and we should, but nothing’s foolproof. If a hacker makes it through, I want to know sooner rather than later, so I use the WordPress File Monitor plugin to monitor changes to the [...]

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Get a Measure of Your WordPress Security Level with the WP Scan Tool

For those of you interested in keeping your WordPress site as secure as possible, BlogSecurity has written a WordPress security checking tool called WP Scanner to check your blog for common security weaknesses. The tool is actually a web-based program that runs at their site, but you need the WP-Scanner Activator plugin to verify that [...]

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How to Install Plugins You’ve Downloaded as .ZIP Files

The WordPress plug-in directory is not the only place you can find great WordPress plug-ins, so when you run across one you’re interested in trying out, go ahead and download it to your hard drive (I suggest creating a folder just for Plugins and saving it there so you can easily find it later.) It [...]

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WordPress Security

In honor of the spookiness and goblin lore associated with Halloween, I’m declaring this month – October – WordPress Security month here at Websites in WordPress. This month, we’ll explore security measures you can take to protect your WordPress website/blog from malicious attacks big and small. According to Matt Mullenweg over at the WordPress Development [...]

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