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There’s a very good post I found by Ruhani Rabin about How To Prevent Your WordPress From Being Hacked. It’s got excellent information that every blog writer should know. Here are a few relevant things: Rename the administrative account: You can do this in the MySQL command-line client with a command like View Code SQLupdate [...]

It’s becoming more common so perhaps you’ve heard of it happening: someone’s WordPress blog was hacked. Usually it is by a spammer, who inserts malicious images and coding. There are weaknesses in WordPress, because it’s open source software, and because users often don’t know all the security holes. Here’s one quick and easy tip to [...]

Here’s a handy-dandy little addon I found for the Firefox browser. It’s called Split Browser. It will enable you to divide your browser’s tabs into small chunk, so you can see them. It’s GREAT if you copy & paste a lot between tabs (like I do), or are copying information. It’s so helpful to have [...]

In a recent post of mine, a visitor asked where she could get photos for her blog. The Internet is a freedom-loving place, so there are scads of photos everywhere, but if you are like me, I prefer the copyright-free photos, or photos with permissions. You don’t want to steal other people’s photos (and don’t [...]