Let me ask you a question that I am afraid to hear the answer… Are you making backups of your WordPress site? Do you regularly and consistently copy your entire site (database, widgets, themes, plugins, the whole kit and caboodle) in the event something goes wrong? I hope so! I have personally been saved by […]
Plugins
Just a Few Plugins To Try Out
Plugins come and go. The good ones stay around, while the not-so good ones just don’t get updated. Sometimes it is fun to test them out and see what they do. Some end up slowing down the site too much, so they get deactivated and deleted. Here are a few not-so-common plugins that I have […]
Stop WordPress Spam comments with G.A.S.P
I was doing an interview for Jenny Munn (http://jennymunn.com/) today regarding “do follow”, comments, SEO, and some other things. One of the questions was, “Do you have to monitor spam more closely or is Akismet still catching most of it?” I am sure that you are aware that Akismet is the plugin that comes installed […]
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
Sometimes I think I am living under a rock. I thought I found a new plugin to test – well it turns out it has been out for a few months now! Maybe you already know about it, maybe not. I am talking about a plugin written by GoDaddy and it is called P3 (Plugin […]
Is Your WordPress Site Vulnerable? Timthumb is out there!
Does your WordPress theme have functionality that resizes images? Maybe it creates a thumbnail (small size image) based on a larger one. If so, check out this plugin and it’s description from the WordPress.org site: The recent Timthumb.php vulnerability has left scores of unsuspecting bloggers hacked. It’s the perfect combination of not so easy to […]