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 [...]
Continue reading »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 [...]
Continue reading »Let Your RSS Subscribers Choose: Full Text or Summary?
WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose? Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others prefer a summary. So which group [...]
Continue reading »Slow Down the Content Scrapers with the FeedEntryHeader Plugin
You work hard on your content, and it’s really disheartening to see that someone else has stolen it and published it on their site. But, what can you do about it? These lazy bloggers who steal content from other sites are called scrapers, and they most commonly get your content through your RSS feed and [...]
Continue reading »Clean Up Your WordPress Database with One Click
We’ve talked about why it’s important to degrag your hard drive regularly. The same is true for your WordPress database. MySQL is the type of database WordPress uses, and while it’s a great database, sometimes it doesn’t clean up after itself too well, and left unaddressed, you could end up with the same sort of [...]
Continue reading »Color Schemes for the 2.7 Dashboard
If you, like me, have a hard time with the two available color schemes for the WordPress 2.7 admin interface – take heart! Help is on the way.
Continue reading »Measure Your Blog’s Success
Do you wonder sometimes if your blog/site is making any progress? It takes time to build traffic and in the beginning, it can feel like no one is paying any attention. If that’s where you’re at – take heart, it gets better! If you’ve been at it awhile, but still feel like you’re kinda flyin’ blind, then it’s time to start measuring your progress.
Continue reading »Save Paper, Ink and Mother Earth with the Eco-Safe Merit Badge Plugin
I hate filing papers. At the very thought, I’m transported back in time to the most horrific temp job I ever had: locked away in a window-less room full of filing cabinets tasked with filing purchase orders 8 hours a day. I lasted 2 days. Fast forward 20 years later, I store everything I possibly [...]
Continue reading »13 Plugins Make My WordPress World Go ‘Round
In honor of Thursday Thirteen, here are 13 WordPress plugins that I use and love. What are YOUR favorite plugins?
Continue reading »Photo Dropper WordPress Plugin
One of the more common complaints I hear from my clients is, “I want to use pictures on my site, but I don’t know where to get them for free…legally.” To their credit, every last one of my clients who’ve asked me about adding more photos and images to their sites has voiced concern about [...]
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