It is a wonderful, wacky Wednesday and instead of an iPhone and/or iPad app, I am singing the praises of a WordPress Plug-in, Akismet, this week. If you blog, you are targeted by spammers. Google owns Blogger / Blogspot.com and zaps spam for you. But if you need to own and control your own blog […]
Zombies! IP Deny Those Brain and Bandwidth Eaters.
Gotta love the attention getting factor that any exclamation of “Zombies!” carries. The CDC even understands this one. They used an outbreak of flesh eating zombies to reach a difficult to engage demographic group with information about emergency preparedness. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this until I Googled “Fox News Zombies.” And look […]
Vigilance Is Your Best Security Option When Using WordPress
V is for Vigilant vigilant |ˈvijələnt| adjective keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties Yesterday I began talking about security through the routine installation of upgrades. This is probably the biggest single thing you can do to secure your self-hosted WordPress site. You need to be vigilant about upgrades to any software you use […]