Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

After a massive blog hack attack, I’m much more keen to the tools and techniques for hardening my WordPress installation. I have found some very valuable resources, so I thought I’d share them here with you. Do realize that hacks on WordPress blogs has risen exponentially. Take care to keep your WordPress sites secure. WordPress [...]

I’ve always loved WordPress, always. I liked it’s flexibility, the challenge of learning how it works, the themes available, everything. Oh sure, it was quite the leap from Blogger (I was a devoted Blogger fan, before the company sold out to the Big G), but I was curious about how WP worked and so I [...]

I saw in my WordPress Dashboard “News” feed that another WordPress update is in the works. Good God, when will this madness end? It seems like just yesterday that we released WordPress 3.1 Dudes, it WAS just yesterday….. *sigh* Little do they realize that many of us hesitate after a new release, preferring to wait [...]

If you don’t subscribe to SmashingMagazine.com, then you should! The site is a jackpot of helpful tools, tips, and more all for the average blogger and advanced IT expert. I was scouring their archives and found a great tutorial 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks. I have used many of them, but not all. Just remember [...]

I discovered a great site that will scan your website or blog for malware, exploits, and other nasty vermin: URL Void. It’s great! It’s free to use and it works well. In this age of profligate hacking, something like this is almost a requirement for any webmaster. I have heard numerous horror stories from my [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of CodeMyConcept. All opinions are 100% mine. When it comes to your website, be it for business or pleasure, you really do want it to be all YOU. In the SEO world, we call this “branding.” That’s a rather chilly term for what I like [...]