March 25, 2013
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SFTP is leaps and bounds more secure than FTP, and is my recommended way of connecting to your server. This is how to connect by SFTP using cPanel and the SFTP client of your choice (like WinSCP or Transmit) Continue reading
December 5, 2012
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WordPress has all the tools you need to build a secure premium content site – Restrict Content Pro is my plugin of choice for providing the membership element: it’s simple, powerful, clean and well-coded. Continue reading
October 8, 2012
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Bad Behavior is an excellent addition to your spam fighting toolbox for WordPress, by analyzing both the content and context of each server request and filtering out the bad requests and known bad IP addresses. Continue reading
May 23, 2012
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WP Download Manager may have its quirks, but it has just about everything you could need to create a document manager within WordPress, including user access control Continue reading
April 16, 2012
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This useful plugin will track every login attempt, so that you can see when your users last logged in and also monitor brute force attacks by looking for multiple failed login attempts against. Continue reading
March 19, 2012
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Sometimes you don’t intend for your content to be seen by the wider world, such as with an intranet site, so use this snippet to hide everything from the wider world. Continue reading
February 17, 2012
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Most of us have managed to lock ourselves out of WordPress at one point or another. This quick tutorial shows you how to get back in to your WordPress site. Continue reading
February 6, 2012
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There are a whole bunch of special definitions that you can specify in wp-config.php to specify how your WordPress site should operate and these are the most used ones. Continue reading
June 20, 2011
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Backups of your WordPress database and files are essential in case something happens to your site. Updraft does backups for you on a regular basis automatically so that you can rest in the knowledge that you always have a backup should the worst happen. Continue reading
April 4, 2011
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Many neglect to change the prefix for their WordPress database tables, which can lead to nasty spam injection on your site. With just ten minutes of effort, you can make your site much more secure and less vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Continue reading
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