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WordPress Security Hardening with .htaccess Rules

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 … Read more

14 WordPress Post Editor Plugins to Give Your Posts Style

The plugins in this list unlock the TinyMCE power buttons that WordPress hides, they add new custom features to TinyMCE to make your posts visually stunning and they make it easier to write posts without churning back-and-forth between plugin help pages. These plugins are all free and are listed in no particular order. I’ve used … Read more

Fix Those Pesky WordPress Category and Tag 404s!

I was going crazy trying to solve this error. Switching plugins on and off, checking plugin settings, checking permalinks were set properly…. No matter what I did, my sites showed hundreds of 404 errors generated by visitors and search engines looking for site content via tags and categories. It turns out it is a common … Read more

Have You Tried Livefyre Commenting?

I scoured the Net during the twilight hours of a day last week to find the then latest episode of The Walking Dead – an excellent bit of suspense and gore from the shores of America. I found the show but it was behind one of those annoying take-this-survey-to-view-this-content scripts that really piss me off. … Read more

BuddyPress Cocked Up WP Multi-Site – Want To Fix It?

The solution is a little bit further down but first I’ll run you through the issue: on rare occasions, installing BuddyPress into a WordPress multi-site setup can prevent access to addon sites within the network. This issue affects subdomain sites not subdirectory sites. A Little Background I activated BuddyPress on a freshly installed test site … Read more

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