Most of us have a Dropbox account and since it’s important to keep your backups on a different server than the one where you host your blog it would be ideal to backup your blog database and upload files to Dropbox.

After a nice idea I got from one of our blog visitors (read this) we’ve added support for your own Yourls.org installation in the WP-Status.net plugin for WordPress.

In the first part of this blog post series I wrote about the hack against user accounts on several popular sites like Facebook and Salesforce. I also mentioned that it’s easy to secure your own site from this problem by using a SSL certificate, so in this blog post we …

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.

Most of you are already using Akismet and other plugins to stop spam in your blogs, but all of those plugins use server CPU and memory to stop the spam so even if the spam isn’t showing up in your blog it’s causing problems for your server. In on of …

I guess most of you have seen sites or blogs where you get a list of different feeds to subscribe to when you click on the little feed icon in the browser address bar.  The question is how do they do that and also is it useful for you?

WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform to use for your blog, but did you know that WordPress is actually telling spammers what version of WordPress you use. The version number may not be sucha big thing you may say, but it is because spammers and hackers then know how to …

Status.net servers like Identi.ca and MyXavier are getting more and more popular since it’s possible to follow users on different servers without having to sign up at each individual server. This means that you can have an account at for example Identi.ca and follow another user at MyXavier.com without signing …

We all hate spam in our blogs and forums and we all try to reduce the amount of spam as much as we can but this can be a lot of work for bloggers and forum owners 🙁 . One way of reducing the spam is checking the IP address …