WordPress has been around for the better part of a decade, and that means there are some truly massive websites and databases that get queried on a regular basis. Those queries can add up pretty…
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Free WordPress Security E-Book Available from Code Poet: Locking Down WordPress
Code Poet, launched in May by Automattic, has this week released a new e-book on WordPress security. In the pages of “Locking Down WordPress,” three WordPress developers provide important advice on taking the right precautions….
Ten Key Ways to Secure a Typical WordPress Installation
In just under a decade, WordPress has evolved from a fledgling content management system to the most-used such solution online. The software has accumulated more than 60 million users around the world, both on typical…
Publishing to WordPress from the Desktop, Even Offline, Using the XML-RPC Protocol
The way to avoid losing the moment of inspiration in an offline world is by installing software known as an XML-RPC client. These specially designed software applications actually reside on a user’s hard drive and…
Don’t Become a Slave to Your Archives: Highlighting a WordPress Site’s Best Content
The challenge of operating an aging and content-rich WordPress blog is to never let content be fully relegated to the archives, which most users aren’t likely to peruse on their own free time. Confining entries…
Using cPanel to Create a MySQL Database for use with your CMS
There are two things that almost any online author is bound to experience in their travels: cPanel administration software and a content management solution like the ever-popular WordPress. And this means that virtually every online…
How WordPress Changed My Career
Back when I started my career as a web designer (circa 1996), the main idea of having a website was to, well, have one. In those days, most businesses weren’t doing much more than putting…
10 Essential Plugins for WordPress Novices
WordPress’s extensibility, courtesy of its large plugin library, is one of the primary causes for its rapid spread as the platform of choice for web development across the internet – so much so that a…
Using jQuery to Validate the Standard WordPress Comment Form
WordPress does not natively validate its comment submission form, but it can be instructed to do so by developing a custom plugin which makes use of the popular Bassistance jQuery library. This library is specifically…
Using the Power of the .htaccess File to Improve WordPress SEO
Search engine optimization is a rapidly growing field which seems to grow more lucrative by the day, and that’s largely because a website’s placement within a search engine can make or break the site’s revenues…
