A security flaw that could allow hackers to give any command to your WordPress server has been discovered in two very popular plugins, WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. This is serious as it allows anyone to get pass your security and get complete access to your site and database. The flaw was found Read More
With the current bots attack on WordPress.Org sites, security is now paramount. One main advice that experts are saying, to improve the security of your site, is to delete the administrators name, if it is admin. WordPress use to have “Admin” as the default administrators name, hence the bots, when they are trying to gain Read More
I wrote last week about a new site of mine, that was under sever attack from bots. Basically they were trying to login as admin and to register on the site. I told you I used the plugin Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin and how it stopped a lot of IP’s that were listed on numerous forums Read More
If you have a WordPress site, with lots of photos on the home page, you may notice that your site may be slow loading. One of the reasons for slow loading is, it takes longer to load photos. You may have being on other sites that when you scroll down the page, photos load as your scrolling, so Read More
There is no guarantee that you can stop spam on WordPress installed sites, but these plugins will definitely help. For the last few weeks I have being working on a new large site. We went into beta and within a couple of days there was hundreds of spammers registering. They had found the site before we even had Read More
WordPress search, by default, would not be the greatest. If you wish to improve the search on your site, you could use the search plugin, that I use on donaldold.com, Relevanssi There is a free and premium version available. I use the free version and its more than adequate. Download the plugin and activate. (Read, Read More
Social network is very important to any business who wishes to promote their business. Business websites have evolved from being, just information about a business, to information and regular postings, using keywords, to enable search engines find and list the business highly on search engines, for their particular keyword. The AddToAny plugin, enables the website Read More
I can hear people saying, why another update so close to the major update of WordPress 3.5. Reason being, when there is major updates, to a script, as there was with 3.5, some bugs are found when the script is released to the general public. These might have slipped by in the beta version. WordPress Read More
If you are doing work on your site, or even making your site, and do not want the public to view it, until you have it finished. To overcome this problem, you can put your site into Maintenance Mode. When visitors come to your site they will see a theme like the one in the Read More
WordPress, by default, sends emails from your site, with the address, wordpress@yoursite.com. It is more professional for the emails to be sent, with an address, something like, info@yoursite.com To do this, you first of all have to have your sites email set up, with your hosting company. To do this, you just go into your Read More