We often write posts that give you advice and recommendations around how to harden your websites, and have only recently begun to give advice on ways to navigate your backend and remove infections via terminal. But what about all the basics? That’s what I want to cover in this post. All those things that you should know [...]
How To: Lock Your Site by Enabling a Second Layer of Authentication
June 25, 2012 by
I put together a post this weekend about my personal experience installing a WordPress site on a clean Server. In the process of hardening the administration panel I found myself doing something that I don’t see discussed much – enabling Basic Access Authentication. That got me thinking about a putting together this post which will [...]
How To: Lock Down WordPress Admin Panel With a Dynamic IP
June 15, 2012 by
There is often a lot of discussion around locking down access to WP-ADMIN and WP-Login.php, specially around restricting it by IP. The issues and retort that often comes up is, “but what if I have a dynamic IP?” Right away the response from folks is, “oh, well then this won’t work for me.” It didn’t [...]
3 Easy Steps to Make WordPress Updates Safer
June 13, 2012 by 5 Comments
With the release of WordPress 3.4 inching closer (could be minutes), we wanted to put together a quick post to help you towards a successful update. Here are a few areas to help you prepare for an easy update to the latest and greatest version of WordPress: 1. Backup your website Updates in WordPress these [...]
