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Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this series, we're taking a look at how to secure our WordPress projects from XSS - or cross-site scripting. In the first article in the series, we...

Tom McFarlin • 15 Mar 2013
Security

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: What Is XSS?

Tutorial • Intermediate

One of the most exciting aspects of modern web development is the potential that comes with building applications specifically for web browsers (or to run...

Tom McFarlin • 13 Mar 2013
Security

WordPress Security Threats That You Should Look Out For

Tutorial • Intermediate

When running a website on WordPress, it is sensible for you to pay attention to security. There are constant threats to blogs and sites running on WordPress....

Michael Brown • 6 Mar 2013
Security

Imposing SSL and Other Tips for Impenetrable WP Security

Tutorial • Intermediate

Internet security has always been as important as your personal security. If you are making money through your blog or website, the security of your website...

Michael Brown • 31 Dec 2012
Security

6 Easy and Efficient Ways to Combat Spam Comments

Tutorial • Beginner

One of the downsides of running a successful WordPress blog is that some people want to take advantage of your success by posting "spam comments" on your...

Barış Ünver • 10 Sep 2012
Security

Conquering the wp-config.php File - 11 Good Practices

Tutorial • Beginner

There are 981 files and 95 folders which come with the WordPress (v3.4.1) package. None of these files need manual modification, except the wp-config.php...

Barış Ünver • 15 Aug 2012
Security

Best Practices for Preventing BuddyPress Spam User Registrations

Tutorial • Intermediate

The BuddyPress plugin turns any WordPress installation into a rich social networking site complete with forums, friend requests, and ... countless numbers of...

Willie Pena • 31 Mar 2012
Security

Building a WordPress Security Plugin: The Basics

Tutorial • Beginner

WordPress is open source, which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security....

Fouad Matin • 9 Mar 2012
Security

Secure Your WordPress Against User-Agents and Bots

Tutorial • Beginner

Lately there have been a lot of WordPress sites compromised only due to the bots that roam the world wide web! There are a lot of plugins out there which can...

Bilal Shaheen • 9 Feb 2012
Scaling

10 Quick Tips: Optimizing & Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

Tutorial • Beginner

We recently looked at 11 Quick Tips for Securing Your WordPress Site, which included some easy, but essential tips for the security of your WordPress blog....

Avinash Zala M • 5 Dec 2011
Security

11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

Tutorial • Beginner

WordPress is the most used open-source platform nowadays for any type of websites: whether it is blog, CMS or any other custom solution. WordPress is...

Avinash Zala M • 3 Dec 2011
Hosting

How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

Tutorial • Beginner

Ever wondered how you might use Version Control with WordPress? If you prefer to work on your WordPress projects locally but have to get them to sync...

Abid Omar • 11 Oct 2011

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