Category Archives: Protecting Your Site

Securing WordPress

I have written about various ways to help secure your website before. Backup of your site is probably the most important of all the things you can do to protect your site.  But there are some things you can do … Continue reading

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Project HoneyPot

Back when I started this blog, one of the things I did was to set up a honeypot from Project HoneyPot. Today, I got some news that cheered me up substantially. Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, … Continue reading

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Free WordPress Backup Plugin?

EDIT: This is embarrassing… but when I got the renewal notice from iThemes, I just assumed it was for BackupBuddy.

It wasn’t.

It was for another suite of plugins. BackupBuddy is licensed through 2037. Which means that the time I spent evaluating other backup solutions, which I covered in some detail below, was completely wasted. I am leaving the article itself unedited, though. Note to self — try not to do something like this again… Continue reading

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And MORE backups…

If you had a business that was making several million $$££ a year.. wouldn’t you have a standby internet connection ?? Continue reading

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Brute-Force Login Attempts

In my last post, I talked mainly about backups of your own local PC. In this post, I am going to talk in more general terms about how protect the work you have done on your WordPress site. Continue reading

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