Dear WordPressers: Plugins are NOT Pokemon. You do not need to collect them all. Sure, I could just leave this there, but honestly, there are a lot of people, of beginner and intermediate levels that have made this mistake. How do I know? Well, part of my job is working with people to clean their
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The #WordPressWednesday Podcast at Blondish.net – Episode 1
As promised in my #WordPressWedneday roundup series, I’ve decided to create a special series on the Blondish.net Podcast, just for WordPress. It’s also called… The #WordPressWednesday Podcast. I’m not separating the podcast, I’m just giving it’s own series. That being said, this podcast is meant to be informative and entertaining at the same time. It
[Continue Reading...]Blondish.net Podcast: 2014 Episode 2
It’s been quite some time since I’ve put together a longer podcast than my 2-7 minute mini episodes. The reason this one is longer is because it covers website security, particularly WordPress site security. I clean up a lot of sites every week because they’ve been hacked, and the biggest issue is that the website
[Continue Reading...]Children Using WordPress: How Can Parents Keep Kids Safe
After a child safety discussion on a WordPress Security Facebook group that I managed to participate in, I felt the need to touch up on children using WordPress, as I’ve been finding a lot of younger kids getting into creating websites and blogs. My own son has a WordPress blog as well. The original question
[Continue Reading...]How to Secure Your WordPress Blog
Securing or as some have dubbed ‘hardening’ your WordPress is important. Why? Well, it allows you to keep out hackers or if you have guest writers, you can make sure they do not take over your blog and boot you out. Also, it could help you with spammers. If you are reading this article and
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