Most blog owners block comment spam in their WordPress blog heavily relying on anti-spam plugin or built-in Comments Blacklist. While this provides easy solution that works, it does have drawbacks. Because it does NOT stop spammer from doing this, but…
Category: Security
WordPress administrators can modify Theme & Plugin files in build-in editor. The editor provides a convenient approach for site administrator to change something on the fly without going through FTP client. It also makes it possible for novice site owner…
It takes only few clicks to install WordPress. But making your installation safer and securer needs further tweaks and checkups. Here a list of things I will go though when a WordPress installation is submitted to me for security enhancement.…
A lot of us know that, “removing WordPress version number” is a fairly popular security trick. The purpose is to hide the WordPress version number embedded in the final rendered HTML code, so to reduce the risk of being targeted…
WordPress is more than regular website, it is a Content Management System. It has more than 1000 files out of the box. After installation extra themes, plugins, and other uploads. There are few thousands of files under one roof. Default…
Finally, we upload the final touch-ups to the website and make the site go live. Before releasing myself from the project, I go over the usual routine for every site developed by our studio, or special request from clients. The…
It should be well-known throughout the WordPress community, that WordPress-powered websites are being targeted with brute force attacks. It targets website that still use “admin” as the primary administrator’s user name, with variation like “adm”, “administrator”, “admin1”, “Admin”, etc. The…