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18 Jan, 2010 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Customization

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Since few months, I’ve been hearing lot of horror stories regarding the compromises that bloggers have to deal with. It’s open source nature, what has been the boon for , is now standing against it (For Hardcore Open-source lovers – I am in favor of Open-source all the way and that statement of mine should not be taken as personal attack). There have been many blogs that weren’t using the latest version of are now infected with some sort of worm or some hacker gets access to the web server and misuses your precious resources. There are cases where they even harm the website by effecting its search engine rankings.

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Boost Your Blog’s Speed!

2 Nov, 2009 | Igor
Topics: Wordpress Customization

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So you want to create a high-traffic site? It’s so cool to have all those plugins too. But will be sufficient for your high-traffic site? Will it survive tons of heavy traffic every day? Well the answer can be yes as long as you take care of few things. Here are some tips on how to speed up your site. Before you go ahead with this post, you should go ahead and read the following post as well – Unclutter your blog.

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So now you understand the importance of Upgrading WordPress?

6 Sep, 2009 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Tutorials

My apologies for not updating the since long time. Thanks to Vivekk for point it out to me and reminding me about that how he’s missing the content of this (definitely makes me feel good). Coming back to the actual post and the talks of not being a secure engine and the questions being raised about the security of WordPress tells me that how we all tend to blame others for our own faults!

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Security Check : Role of Username in securing your WordPress blog

22 May, 2009 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Customization, Wordpress Tutorials

We’ve already stressed on the importance of strong password in the security check series. And i’m sure that some of you’ll be surprised to find out that “Username” of the plays an important role in the of the . If you don’t tend to agree, then here’s some food for thought – Will it be difficult if you were to guess only password or will it be difficult for you to guess both username & password?

While you ponder over the question (are you still thinking about it? if the answer is yes, go ahead and take these mind exercises or play these games), I would remind you to ensure that you subscribe to our blog for regular tips like these.

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Security Check – WordPress table prefix change adds more security

21 May, 2009 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Customization, Wordpress Tutorials

Till this time we’ve covered the basics of security measures that one should take to secure their blogs. Today we are going to take slightly advanced approach and will try to ensure that automatic bots will not be able to gain access to your easily as we’ll change the table structure of the . Don’t worry if it sounds scary to you; we’ll ensure that you’ll be able to do it pretty easily as there are various tools available for the same.

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Security Check – File directory permissions for your blog

18 May, 2009 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Customization, Wordpress Tutorials

In order to ensure that your is safe from prying eyes, we are running this 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 .

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Security Check – Do upgrades regularly and be secure!

16 May, 2009 | mayank
Topics: Wordpress Customization, Wordpress Tutorials

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 not only stays safe from vulnerabilities but also gives you latest features that play major role in your ’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 concerns associated with and how one can stay peacefully after the upgrade.

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