In order to ensure that your blog is safe from prying eyes, we are running this security check series. We’ve already discussed some of the basic stuff and today we are going to ensure that the file & directory permissions should be right. In this guide we’ll fix the CHMOD of various important files and folders of your blog.
In the world of computers and Internet, things get old pretty fast and that is one of the reason why we see WordPress software getting lot of updates frequently. This makes sure that WordPress not only stays safe from vulnerabilities but also gives you latest features that play major role in your blog’s success. We’ve been regular readers of various blogs about blogging and all these gurus suggest the same, why is that? They all understand the security concerns associated with WordPress and how one can stay peacefully after the upgrade.
After we’ve ensured that Secret Key is at its desired place, we can think about securing the password of the blog too. Strong password is really necessary these days as there are various ways through which hackers, tend to break the password and get unauthorized access to important and sensitive information. Brute-Force, Dictionary attack are some of the few methods of gaining the unauthorized access with the help of automated password attempts. If your password has the following elements, then I’m sure it’ll be considered as a strong password -
It’s always said that if something is a boon, it will also carry some negative points. WordPress is popular; this is a boon to every WordPress user as this popularity ensures that there is active development around it. WordPress is popular; this is a bane to every WordPress user as it gets frequently attacked by hackers and nasty people. In this series, we’ll try to make WordPress as secure as one can. In this post, we’ll define secret key for WordPress and we’ll later move to advanced techniques to achieve more desired results -
I was recently approached by one of our readers and my cousin Amit Gupta. He was facing an issue in writing any posts as he encountered with some problem while upgrading the blog. After diagnosing the issue, I realized that he made a small mistake while doing the upgrade. he forgot to upgrade the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin and tried to upgrade the blog with the old version of it.
We all love brands and that is evident from not just by wearing Guccies, Omegas also by wearing brand logos on t-shirts, mugs, stickers and various merchandizes. Building brand is not simple and its one way of showing that we love the efforts that the guys have put in building that brand. I always wanted to wear a WordPress hoodie or t-shirt, however it wasn’t making sense to me that I buy a hoodie for 23 GBP from WordPress store, when it shouldn’t cost more than $ 12 in India itself. So, here’s what I did -
The week took off and we published an interview with Ian Ozsvald, a professional screencaster. And we have already mentioned about Michael Pick, light-bulb engineer at Automattic. And if you remember that we asked the question from him that what exactly he’s going to do at Automattic and it seems that now we can *watch* the answer on the web!
