Monday, March 22nd, 2010

WordPress Security – keep your WP-powered website secure from hackers and exploits

Since a few of my WordPress sites got hacked, this issue is important to me. So I thought I would share this with you before you get hacked!

How to upgrade to WordPress 2.8 Baker

When upgrading to WordPress 2.8, remember to use the following checklist: 1) Make a backup of your database …

Adding valid video code to WordPress sidebar

Yeah, I just don’t understand why YouTube and other videos services don’t offer valid code. Anyway, strip the ugly embed code you get from YouTube down to just the basic URL for wordpress

As with any system, it isn’t perfect and I would love to see a few things added which I like (including the looks of the “themes” which tend to get pretty boring) but I see potential since it is a system which is trying to grow along with the Internet community it serves

Before I came across WordPress I enjoyed creating websites for various people on a range of subjects, all using traditional HTML (hyper text markup language). I never was great at graphics nor had much of an eye for colors, but I did find the technology of the Internet fascinating. As the Internet opened up, so [...]

In todays world of power-blogging, is it necessary to stay on the narrow way or should blogs now diversify and write on many subjects. Lets have a look!

When I installed WordPress 2.5 on this particular site I manually downloaded the software from WordPress.org and followed the easy-to-use instructions. Everything went smoothly and I quickly fell in love with the new 2.5 interface.
Some days later WP 2.5 was available to me on other sites via the Fantastico administration panel supplied by my web [...]