Securing your login screen is one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to help increase the security of your WordPress website. By implementing “two-factor authentication”, you make it much harder for people to gain unauthorized access to your WordPress dashboard. Fortunately, DuoSecurity is a free service (for up to ten users)…
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WordPress Beginner’s Security Checklist
We are pleased to announce the release of the WordPress Beginner’s Security Checklist. Our goal with this guide was to present a simple series of steps that everyone can follow to secure their WordPress website. We have included information on securing your login form, securing your configuration files, adding unique encryption keys, and plugins and other resources…
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WordPress Security 101
You have put a lot of work into setting up your WordPress website. You have gotten it installed, added your plugins, chosen a theme, added your widgets, created your menus, and finally added posts and pages. But have you thought about security? Have you taken steps to protect your blog from people who want to…
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Tutorials
How Do I use Custom Menus with WPTouch Pro?
In this short tutorial video, I show you how to set WPTouch Pro to use a custom WordPress menu and how to add icons to the menu items:
Generate Mobile Specific Content Using WPTouch Pro Shortcodes
A little documented feature of the WPTouch Pro plugin is the ability to use shortcodes to show specific blocks of content to desktop users and other content to mobile visitors. This is necessary considering WPTouch Pro currently does not resize multimedia if the width and height tags are within a style element. Most video player…
How do I use the Widget Login Plugin?
In this tutorial, we take a look at the Widget Logic plugin from FreakyTrigger. This plugin allows widgets to only be shown on specific pages of your blog. It allows for very complex statements using the WordPress conditional tags. The codex at WordPress.org has a list of all the tags you can use.
How do I enable support for WordPress 3.0 Menus in Thesis?
One of the new features in WordPress 3.0 is the Menu generator. This lets you create menus containing categories, pages, and links all together. However, many themes have not yet released updates to enable this functionality. In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable your Thesis powered blog to take advantage of the…
How do I Add a Feature Box to Thesis (Without using a Featured Category)?
There are many tutorials out there about adding a feature box to Thesis, but they all have one fatal flaw: they tell you to use a “Featured” category. This seems innocuous enough, but it causes unwanted results for my clients: they now have a category that shows up in widgets and other areas of the…
How Do I Add the ShareThis Button to my Blogger blog?
A number of people have asked me about adding the ShareThis button to their Blogger blog. Blogger and ShareThis have teamed up to allow you do this, but it only shows up in the sidebar. However, most people want an individual button for each separate blog post. This video tutorial shows how to do just…
Backing Up Your cPanel Website
Backing up your website hosting account is an important part of your internet strategy. Yes, your hosting provider probably makes backups. But should your account get wiped out or defaced, you will have to contact your hosting provider’s tech support and request a restore. All of which costs you time and money due to the…
How and Why You Need to Upgrade Your WordPress Installation
Keeping your WordPress blog installation up to date is essential to blog security. New security exploits are being found on a regular basis. The developers over at wordpress.org do a great job of staying on top of things, and release an update whenever a new exploit is found and fixed. Below is a video tutorial…
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