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Top Tips For WordPress Users

December 16, 2012 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Every forum I help in, every client I speak with and every new WordPress user I meet invariably asks for WordPress help about at least one of these "how do I use WordPress" subjects. What follows is a small collection of tips, tidbits and help for WordPress users. This would have been a simple list but it kept growing and growing like Pinocchio’s nose the more I remembered the things I wish I knew when I began using WordPress. This post could have been spread over 5 posts but that wouldn't have been in the JournalXtra spirit of long post writing. Each subject section has a quick tips … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: content, css, links, Media Uploader, nofollow, plugin, plugins, post, posts, tips, Visual Editor

The Only WordPress Security Plugins You Will Ever Need

November 19, 2012 by Lee hodson 4 Comments

I've written many WordPress security posts in the years that JournalXtra has been alive. New plugins are released each year. Like nature's evolution of man, developers interbreed features of old plugins to make superior all-in-one solutions to WordPress security issues. With the evolution of new plugins, old plugins whither and die, eventually to become a WordPress archeologist's treasure. So every year I write a new post to surpass all other security posts. This one is no exception. In previous years I wrote top ten lists. This year there is no top ten, not even a top five. This year you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Security, Wordpress Tagged With: Filter Request Methods, plugins, site, Wordfence Security

HowTo: Change the Language of WordPress

February 29, 2012 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

So, you have built a WordPress site or WordPress multisite and now want the WordPress dashboard and site frontend to use Spanish or German or Italian or another language. It is easy. Whether you are looking to: Change the language used in the WordPress dashboard Change the WordPress backend language Change the WordPress front end language Change the language used by WP plugins, or Use a different language for your theme Follow the instructions shown here. How to Change the WordPress Language Visit http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/ Find the directory with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EasyGuides, Wordpress Tagged With: content, plugin, plugins, wp

WordPress Security Hardening with .htaccess Rules

December 13, 2011 by Lee hodson 20 Comments

This way of protecting your website uses a combination of htaccess rewrite rules to harden WordPress sites at the server level, plugins to harden WP sites at the site level i.e internally, and plugins to detect changes to files and the database SQL injections. There's no need to be squeamish. Toughening WordPress is easier than it looks but there are caveats: No site or server can ever be 100% secure from malicious bots, hacker scripts or other non desirables. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks require a very different method of site protection. The site defence methods shown here have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apache, Security, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged With: access, faq, plugin, plugins

Uninstall W3 Total Cache – The Proper Way

September 5, 2011 by Lee hodson 68 Comments

A few days ago I began the process of removing W3 Total Cache from all my blogs and replacing it with Quick Cache WP Super Cache. Why, you might wonder, would I do that. The simple answer is that W3 Total Cache conflicted one too many times with other plugins. I'm getting old and tired and I'm fast coming over to the idea that if a plugin's too much hassle to setup then it shouldn't call itself a plugin so much as it should call itself a nail in sanity's coffin. You'd expect it to be easy to remove W3 Total Cache. And it should be but it hooks its tentacles into a blog's htaccess file, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: blogs, get rid of w3tc, plugin, plugins, remove, uninstall W3 Total Cache, W3 Total Cache, W3TC, Wordpress

10,000 Backlinks in 1 – The Best URL Submission You Will Ever Make

February 19, 2010 by Lee hodson 11 Comments

Webmasters helping webmaster to connect and build a symantec web

A lonely fact of a webmasters life is the time spent locked away in solitude as we notch up backlinks to our websites. Some come organically through people visiting our sites and bookmarking us on a do-follow social networking site or by placing a link to us on one of their own websites such as a free Wordpress or Tumblr blog. Other links we create artificially by connecting with other webmasters and asking them to link to us in return for a link back to them or we add our sites into the many directories that are available to us. It takes a lot of time to build backlinks even when auto … [Read more...]