by Dave Mroz | Oct 31, 2014 | Social Media, WordPress
Daylight savings time ends Sunday, November 2, 2014 at 2:00 am in the United States! It’ll be time to set the clocks ahead one hour and adjust your WordPress time zone to ensure that your posts and comments are tagged with the correct time. For many webmasters,...
by Dave Mroz | Apr 21, 2014 | Security, WordPress
I’m running a test. In my post on Blocking Kyivstar From Accessing Your WordPress Site from January, I first said that “‘admin’ isn’t a valid username on this blog and it shouldn’t be on yours, either!”. Since then I’ve used similar...
by Dave Mroz | Apr 14, 2014 | Security, Web Design, WordPress
Congratulations! You just picked a host and successfully got WordPress installed and can’t wait to stat blogging! Stop and pause for a quick minute and make sure that your WordPress installation is configured properly and reasonably secure. Going through this...
by Dave Mroz | Apr 14, 2014 | Web Design, WordPress
Here is a short list of a few plugins that we use on virtually every site. I selected the items on this short list to keep things simple and relevant to every WordPress installation regardless of size, traffic, content, etc. You’ll probably need other plugins,...
by Dave Mroz | Feb 10, 2014 | Security, WordPress
WordPress will tell you that usernames cant be changed, but fortunately there is an easy way to do this. What we’re going to do is simply create a new account and swap it with the old one. It’s worth noting that there are a few plugins that will automate...
by Dave Mroz | Jan 16, 2014 | Security, WordPress
Recently we had a rash of brute-force hacking attempts on a variety of WordPress sites that we manage. The commonality in the attacks is that they all originated from the Ukraine – more specifically they all came from the Kyivstar ISP. A user with IP address...
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