Redirect all URLs to new URLs. This works when a site is moved to a new location and visitors need to be redirected from old URLs to new URLs and the new URLs are only changed by domain, subdomain or subdirectory. For example, this would work when you need to redirect from example.com/post-1 to new.example.com/post-1 or when you need to redirect from example.com/a-post to example.com/directory/a-post. Redirect from old domain to new domain Create an .htaccess file in the root directory of the site's old location Add this snippet to the top of the .htaccess file # Set the domain the … [Read more...]
Security Alert: WordPress Multi Site Hacker
March 16, 2011 by 6 Comments
Please be aware that the IP addresses listed below are being used to hack into WordPress Multi Sites. The person or bot behind the hacks adds a user to the site's admin then changes the network's setting to permit site and user registrations. One of my mostly up to date and secure WordPress MS blogs was recently hacked. I advise all WordPress MS users to update their sites and to block the following IP addresses from accessing them: 173.208.43.154 173.208.43.57 173.234.59.245 173.234.232.113 The IPs may be blocked by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file: order … [Read more...]
WordPress Security Tips
September 15, 2010 by 5 Comments
Look around the Net and you will see plenty of blog posts about WordPress sites getting hacked. As a blog owner you probably feel as protective about your site and its content as a teenage girl's dad feels about protecting his daughter from hormone charged males. If you were the parent of a teenage girl you would struggle to get her into a chastity belt and I couldn't help you to do that but I can help you protect your blog with software equivalents to chastity belts. So let's see how we can keep malicious users from getting into your blog's nether regions. No blog or website is one hundred … [Read more...]
