WordPress Training Video – Setting up Yoast SEO Plugin

 WordPress Training Video — Setting up Yoast SEO Plugin Setting up and configuring Yoast plugin is a pretty simple task it just takes a little time and most people who use it don’t bother. It does do a pretty good job right out of the box, but it is much better when properly configured. This […]

WordPress Training Video – WordPress Basics Fresh Install

 WordPress Training Video — Basic Settings This post originally published in Aug of 2012 has been updated and a new video created which you can see below. One of the most overlooked things when installing a new WordPress website is the basic setting for it. This WordPress Training Video covers those basics, from setting you […]

WordPress Security and What’s New in 4.2

WordPress has come under fire in many ways over the last couple months and security has become of paramount importance when dealing with you WordPress website. There are a few things to know about security with WordPress the first of which is insuring that you have adequately provided for the security of your site by […]

Optimal characters per line

  Optimal characters per line I’m sick and tired of cramped websites that have tiny type and don’t use the whole screen well. I’ve come to believe that the problem with reading on a screen isn’t the backlight—it’s that the type is too freaking small. Most designers don’t even know that there is an optimal […]

8 Terrifying Reasons Hackers Love it When You Install WordPress Using 1-Click Methods

  8 Terrifying Reasons Hackers Love it When You Install WordPress Using 1-Click Methods Everyone is using 1-click installers that come with their hosting accounts simply because they don’t know any better. It is indeed quicker, but can open up your website to a ton of security vulnerabilities, especially when compared to installing WordPress manually […]

How to: Design a business website using WordPress

  How to: Design a business website using WordPress It’s true what they say: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. If you want a professional website worthy of your company, you’ll have to pay for hosting (at least). This needn’t be expensive, though – and when it comes to building the actual pages […]

Zero-day in the Fancybox-for-WordPress Plugin

  Zero-day in the Fancybox-for-WordPress Plugin The fancybox-for-wordpress plugin is a popular WordPress plugin with more than 550,000 downloads. There doesn’t appear to be any public vulnerabilities being reported, which piqued our interest. To understand how it was connected, we decided to do our own code / vulnerability review. After some analysis, we can confirm […]

Stop Spammers Cold – AntiSpam Plugins

Stopping spammers on your website can be a chore at times, but with the right antispam plugins installed you can eliminate over 99% of those spammers form you life. There are basically three types of spam that hist a WordPress website: Comment Spammers Registration Spammers Log-in Spammers Stopping all of those can be a bit […]

8 WordPress Security Tips to Help You Secure Your WordPress Site

  8 WordPress Security Tips to Help You Secure Your WordPress Site Is being hacked fun? Certainly not. The worst part about it is that you could potentially lose everything. Your content. Your media. Personal data. It’s natural to want to protect your site from being hacked. It’s just as important as protecting your home […]

The Invisible RootPress WordPress Malware Attack Planet Zuda

  The Invisible RootPress WordPress Malware Attack Planet Zuda The malware was invisible to Windows users and as far as we know it is also invisible to Macintosh users as well. We are very thorough when doing malware removal, so we had to find what let the hackers into the site, the backdoors, and anything […]

Critical XSS flaws patched in WordPress and popular plug-in

  Critical XSS flaws patched in WordPress and popular plug-in New security updates released for the WordPress content management system and one of its popular plug-ins fix cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take control of websites. The comment XSS vulnerability only affects WordPress 3.9.2 and earlier versions, not WordPress 4.0. However, […]

WordPress Security

WordPress security is an ongoing concern and something to take seriously. There are over 1 Billion WordPress websites on the net and approximately 70% of them are vulnerable to being hacked for any number of reason the biggest of which is running out of date versions of WordPress. The Presentation below talks about what is […]