If you have a wordpress blog
… read this.
… read this.
A recent post on the Wordfence blog discusses a major set of attacks against WordPress sites, title WP-VCD. Most of my readers will not be interested in the technical details (which are, in fact, very interesting!), but the basic actions to keep your site secure listed near the end are worth your time. If you…
I just converted a database for UTF8 using the UTF8 Database Converter. It provides dire warnings about using it for versions after 2.2, but having made a complete backup, I decided to try it anyhow. It worked beautifully. The database I converted was for my wife’s blog, Jody Along the Path. Now if I could…
Get the fix here. There are other, more complicated fixes, but that one works.
Note that this is at an extremely introductory level. If you’re looking for more advanced help, there are many other resources elsewhere, including the one linked at the end. I’ve recently most most of my sites from cPanel/WHM to Cyberpanel. I will post some notes on transferring sites. There are many excellent resources, but also…
All of this information is available in different files, but I couldn’t find it all in one place, so I’m going to post it. If nothing else, I can come back to this post when I forget it myself. On multi-author blogs I often want to provide author and category feeds as well as the…
If you don’t know what that means, you’re not interested in this post! 🙂 I installed wp-cli on my development server in the office, and while I’m still in the learning process, it is already quite helpful. Creating a framework for a plugin or block, for example, is great. I wanted to use it to…
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