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 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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m on a roll! You can never have too many themes for your blog, now can you? This one is WPRex – free wordpress themes. It touts itself as the “Best Free WordPress Themes For Free.” The themes are very nice. Many of them are the popular magazine style. I rather like the Elegant News [...]

I’ve been scouring the World Wide Web for Blogger templates, recently. I’ve come across quite a few websites that have extremely classy templates! I’m happy to see that Blogger users have more choices available to them today. When I was with Blogger, 10 years ago now, the templates were horrid, and there were only a [...]

Oh my word. LOL. There’s another update!!! WordPress users, you’ve probably seen the little notification in your blog dashboard. WordPress 3.0.1 is out. Looks like it’s a maintenance upgrade, taking care of a bunch of issues missed in the last upgrade. I love WP, I really do. It is GREAT. But the updates keep me [...]