I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about peoples WordPress blogs being targetted by everything from Malware Redirects to BlogRoll Spam. I thought I’d stick in some bits and pieces to help you get your WordPress blog toughened up and make your blogging safe. If you have a bog hosted over at wordpress.com rather than your own install you’ll probably never have to worry about these things too much - you lucky people :p
- Keep checking in @ Blog Security: They’ve been doing some great work on keeping the community updated on security exploits with WordPress. Subscribe to their RSS feed - it’s well worth it. They even have stuff on WordPress Mu updates - which is fab.
- Matt Cutts posted about toughening your WordPress blog: the bit about using empty index files can be hughely important as I’ve seen requests for this file going up quite a bit on some blogs lately from some strange IP addresses.
- There are also ten tips over at noupe.com. Some don’t always work (I have some Plesk and some CPanel servers which exhibit different behaviours when trying some of these out.)
Hope that helps all you WordPress addicts get a WordPress installation thats a better, and safer, than ever before.
If you know any other tips/tricks/etc that I could be using drop em a comment.
This is a plea to anyone who can help us here. We’re looking at building a Facebook widget - purely for vanity. We’ve had a look through the web and found various video tutorials about developing these but so far I’ve not been able to find one which has a step by steo guide for techy folk on how to build these. Its going to involve parsing an RSS feed at some point.
Some of the applications I’ve seen online seem to build them for you - but they dont really offer us the flexibility we’re looking for.
If anyone knows of any good Facebook tutorials, guides or walkthroughs drop us a comment below.
For a while I’ve been thinking more and more that Matt Cutts, aka Google Guy, blog is becoming less relevant to me. It’s became a mecca for lots of non-seo noise that is starting to block out the good stuff that he used to post about Google and SEO.
In the past he posted some really cool stuff, that was useful to everyone from web developers to Internet marketers. Some great posts included:
Increasingly I find that posts to be of less relevance. due to his I’ve started to use the official Google Blog more and more as a source of info about what’s going on at the search engine and referring less and less to Matts site.
Does anyone still think that Matt Cutts blog has the same level of information as it used to?
Having a well organised work station is great: in tray, out tray, worklist etc all help manage my work flow (kinda). But I often find that my file system gets out of control.
So recently I started using Folder Marker - which allows you to change the colour of folders within windows. So now I have nicely colour coded structure which I am (trying) to use all the time:
- Green folders for Admin
- Orange Folders for General Clients
- Red Folders for Clients I am working on
- Blue folders for old/expired clients
- Purple Folders for My own personal website stuff.
Its strange but this has actually made my work more efficent. (I’ve just noticed this post reads as if it’s some affiliate promotion or something).
If you fancy giving it a try download Folder Marker
As a quick note I found folder marker over at Geeks are Sexy