Defending Your Castle: How to Recognize a WordPress Attack
A friend of mine contacted me recently after his site had crashed several times in the same 24-hour period. I reviewed the raw log files from the site, and found about 200+ instances of someone looking...
View ArticleHow to Know if Your Revolution Slider is Vulnerable
Slider Revolution is a very popular plugin for WordPress that allows users to add slides with a selection of transition effects and options to any WordPress page or post. Currently, there is a...
View Article“What does this even mean?”
As I work with a lot of clients whose sites have gotten hacked or infected, I get to see a lot of e-mails from the support staff at various major hosting companies. Our first introduction typically...
View ArticleThe Stuff That Business Owners Put Up With
We all have stuff we put off. From calling the insurance company to cleaning out your closet, I would bet there is something that you should be taking care of this week that you haven’t done. When it...
View ArticleWhere Automation Fails (At The Worst Time)
I had a client contact me recently because her host had said she was hacked. I set to work on her site, cleaning it and transferring it to a new hosting account. In the meantime, she received another...
View ArticleMy Recent Experience with Bluehost
This is long. You may want to get comfy and grab some popcorn. First of all … I felt it was only fair to give this exchange some context by showing you a video that explained what I was asking the...
View ArticleWordPress Hosting Security, Part 1
As those of you who know me, I take website security very seriously so that my clients don’t have to. For those of you who aren’t hosting with me, however, I want to call attention this post by...
View ArticleWordPress Web Hosting Security, Part 2
As those of you who know me, I take website security very seriously so that my clients don’t have to. For those of you who aren’t hosting with me, however, I want to call attention this post by...
View ArticleWordPress Hosting Security, Part 3
As those of you who know me, I take website security very seriously so that my clients don’t have to. For those of you who aren’t hosting with me, however, I want to call attention this post by...
View ArticleWordPress Hosting Security, Part 4
As those of you who know me, I take website security very seriously so that my clients don’t have to. For those of you who aren’t hosting with me, however, I want to call attention this post by...
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