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Why you should (almost) always login to WordPress using an ‘Editor’ account

Posted on October 13, 2021

Is your blog powered by WordPress? If so, you should know that you have a virtual target on your back.

More blogs run on WordPress than any other blogging platform, and that makes WordPress blogs a preferred target for the hackers of the world.

Unless you’ve taken steps to harden your blog against hacking attacks, it’s fairly easy for a skilled and determined hacker to either guess your WordPress login password or intercept it from the data stream that’s created when you log in to your WordPress Dashboard.

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How to change the order of your blog posts in WordPress

Posted on October 9, 2021

In my opinion, WordPress is by far the best blogging platform out there.

Why? Because no other platform even comes close in terms of power, flexibility and ease of use.

There are tons of intuitive ways to do virtually anything in WordPress, but one useful task that isn’t all that intuitive is changing the order of one or more of your existing blog posts.

By default, posts are displayed in reverse chronological order (i.e. the newest post at the top of the first page), but you can easily force a specific post to be displayed anywhere in the list. [Read more…]

How to quickly fix a WordPress blog that was broken by installing a ‘bad’ plugin

Posted on September 29, 2021

If you have a WordPress blog, chances are you will install a new plugin or update an existing one that “breaks” your blog at some point.

Trust me, it happens to most every blogger at one time or another.

I remember the first time it happened to me…

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Review: TrafficSwarm blog traffic generation service

Posted on September 28, 2021

As a blogger, you know how important it is to have lots of people visiting your blog.

After all, a site that no one ever visits is pretty much useless, especially if you hope to make money with it.

If your blog is new you’ve probably spent some time searching Google for ways to increase the number of visitors you have coming to it on a daily basis.

And if that’s the case, chances are you’ve come across a service called TrafficSwarm.

In this post I will explain how TrafficSwarm works and give you my honest opinion about whether you should use it or not. [Read more…]