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Securing your WordPress blog

Bloggers have rushed to secure their selfhosted WordPress blogs after the recent massive hacks on shared hosts. I was one of them, even though only one of my blogs was affected. I spent hours browsing, looking for good resources, common knowledge, and solid tips to form a list of quitessentials on WordPress security. I also [...]

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Automatically monitor malicious file changes on your WordPress blog

During the the latest spree of hacks in April and May, hackers dropped a malicious .PHP script on the root directory of selfhosted blogs.
The script changed all .PHP files, adding one line of code which redirected visitors to a virus-infested site, and then deleted itself. There was anything between a day and an hour between [...]

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How to block users uploading malware to your blog?

Many shared hosts don’t protect you from users uploading and executing malicious code to your website. Here is how to close that loop hole for hackers.

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An analysis of the latest website hacks

After the latest spree of hacks on thousands of websites, it is time to look at some of the commonalities and ways to security our sites better. Given that the security holes are clearly at the level of the website hosting companies, and it is their duty to close those holes, nothing stops us from [...]

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Godaddy hacked again. Another way to cure your site.

Godaddy got hacked again this morning (This is what Godaddy has to say about it). Update: and again on May 20.
If you host your blog on Godaddy, you would do well to check your site regularly for any malware, and here is how.
The hack is the same as the previous 4 hacks, affecting thousands of [...]

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How to check if your blog is infected with malware?

I reported before how to detect if your blog was infected with the recent massive hackers attacks on hosting sites, and how to cure it.
As a follow up, here is the easiest way to detect if your blog has the malware injected: Use the sucuri.net free scanner !
Just enter you blog URL including “http://”, press [...]

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How to cure your GoDaddy WordPress hacked blog

Update: I adapted a script to easily verify and cure the infection on your site. Check this post for more.
The GoDaddy hosting service got hacked three times in a row now. On April 27, May 1 and May 7, many sites, including thousands of WordPress blogs, got infected by malware code. Update: GoDaddy hosted sites [...]

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How to speed up your blog

Many blogs grow from a blog with a simple plain template to a site combining pictures, links, widgets and text.
This is exactly what happened with my first blog: Came a time I realized it took almost 30 seconds to fully download the homepage of my blog, on an ADSL or cable connection. Around the same [...]

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The biggest list of nonprofit blogs just got bigger

With the help several people, I spend a lot of time collecting and updating my list of nonprofit blogs, which I publish on my Delicious list. Over the past months, this list grew to 549 blogs.

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Browser size revisited

In a previous post, we looked at the optimum “blog real estate”: the surface of your blog which is visible on a visitor’s browser window. I mentioned that, according to the statistics from 350,000 visitors my main blog, 91% was using a monitor width of 1,024 pixels or more. Based on that, I suggested you [...]

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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs.
What tools are on the market to automatically [...]

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