Softaculous WordPress Installation I recently reviewed the Social Blog Blueprint (it is a very good blogging course for beginner and intermediate bloggers). My main gripe was showing 1-click installation of WordPress. The course recommends installing WordPress via the Softaculous script. I did notice that Softaculous allows you to change some of the default WordPress settings […]
Video Blogging Challenge Day 5
Wow, we’ve reached day 5 of Bonnie Gean’s Video Blogging Challenge and so far I’ve kept up! In this video blog, I want to take the opportunity to nag you about WordPress usernames and passwords. There are a LOT of attacks going on at the moment – including an attempt to force the login and […]
WordPress 3.7 Automatic Update Feature (Should You Use It?)
WordPress 3.7 is here (doesn’t seem like 5 mins ago 3.6 was released!) Named “Basie” after jazz musician Count Basie (yes, I had to go look up who he was…) WordPress state that version 3.7 contains “some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date .” It wasn’t a totally smooth update to […]
Sunday Catch Up – Wonderful WordPress Edition
As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order… Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username. Move To […]
Is Your WordPress Secure From Attack?
WordPress installations worldwide are currently under a brute force attack. These attacks are targeting the most common username and password combinations. Is your WordPress Secure? If you still have your username set as admin, your WordPress sites are very much at risk. As a precaution, all WordPress users should change their passwords to a secure […]