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Article upon article has been written across the web about using secure passwords for everything – let alone your web site! Similarly, recently reported breaches and hacks into online sites has revealed frequently used passwords such as: 1234 and password. As a website owner, security begins with you and starts with securing your passwords by…
If you use WordPress or another content management system for your website, such as Joomla, you may have come across ‘plugins’. Basically, a plugin is software which gives additional functionality to the website and many plugins are free. For example, when you have a site built in WordPress (the self hosted version, not the free…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about getting started with WordPress.com. As a follow on, I thought I’d write a bit about what you should include in your blog plus categorising posts and tagging them. If your blog is an addition to your main business site (rather than a standalone blog), then…
Many of you probably know that WordPress is a very popular blogging provider. There are 2 versions of WordPress, which I’ve covered in a previous post, and today I want to talk about getting started with the free, hosted version – WordPress.com Setting up a blog with WordPress.com is quite easy, but getting used to…
Some of you may have read last week that some WordPress sites have been hacked. WordPress works hard to ensure that it’s blogging platform is secure from hackers, but there will always be people with nothing better to do than find ways to hack into people’s websites, whether they’re small businesses or major organizations. If…
For those of you thinking of starting a blog, the blogosphere can be a bit of a minefield. There are plenty of options to choose from and one of the most popular blogging platforms is WordPress. To make things more complicated, there are two versions of WordPress! So what’s the difference? WordPress.com This is WordPress’s…
