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Why WordPress Updates Fail

WordPress is generally extremely reliable. Consider that there are tens of thousands of disparate people and groups working independently to create the hundreds of thousands of themes and Plugins for the core WordPress software. Even the core WordPress software itself uses code and script created by further groups (e.g. JavaScript, PHP and HTML). The number of possible combinations [...]

How to Disable RSS Feeds

Feeds are enabled by default in every WordPress Blog/Website. Unfortunately there isn’t an option in WordPress to disable Atom or RSS feeds therefore we need to enable a workaround. We could delete or modify certain of the core WordPress files to remove the feed but this isn’t ideal and many non-technical people will be uncomfortable [...]

Hackers try my WordPress Site

I was absolutely amazed recently when I checked my various WordPress Website log files and discovered just how many random hack attempts there are on a daily basis. I wrote yesterday about various WordPress security measures. How to discover Hacking Attempts In this case all I have done is check my error 404 ‘not found’ [...]

Why Secure WordPress

A small proportion of my work is spent helping people recover from hacked WordPress Websites. Generally hacked Websites fall into one of two categories; targeted attacks or random/chance attacks. A client I assisted recently to recover from a hacked Site was the recipient of a targeted attack as he is a well known professor specializing [...]