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I've previously mentioned that a secure password that's hard to guess is key when it comes to security. Since even a password with random characters (both numbers, letters and special characters) can be cracked if enough time is spent trying to guess the password you need to protect your WordPress blog from letting people guess [...] Continue Reading
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The fantastic people at Automattic has created yet another fantastic piece of software called Jetpack. This plugin for WordPress blogs contains several fantastic features, which are almost impossible to live without after you've tried this plugin Continue Reading
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Everyone that got a blog may from time to time get a visitor using a smartphone or something similar. Since most themes for computers with normal web browsers and a big screen size aren't that good looking on small smartphone screens (I know the screens are pretty big if you compare to a few years [...] Continue Reading
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As you may have already read in the news, WordPress.com (the WordPress hosting service provided by Automattic, not the self hosted open source platform) had a security incident last week. Someone gained root access to some of the servers used by Automattic and possibly anything on the servers could have been copied. Continue Reading
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On the 28th I wrote about the new service Site Report from our friends at AboutUs.org and today I'm going to prove to you why you need it even if you have a professionally made blog theme or a free theme from the directory at WordPress. Continue Reading
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If you've been using the iPhone or iPad app for WordPress you know it's been really buggy and almost impossible to use for blogging (which is the main purpose with the app . The good news is that WordPress has released a new version with more than 100 bug fixes and a slightly revamped user [...] Continue Reading
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Our spam checking WordPress plugin WP-Check-Spammers has been upgrade to version 0.3 with a little help from csixty4 on wordpress.org. The pugin will still continue to check comments against spam databases and blacklists to see if the IP address, name and email of the person making the comment is a known spammer or not, but [...] Continue Reading
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When we got our page at Facebook (facebook.com/XavierMedia) we noticed a need to publish updates from our WordPress blog to the page at Facebook. Since we couldn't find any good plugins for this (doing exactly what we wanted), we simply created our own plugin. Continue Reading
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