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How to create your own self-hosted WordPress blog for only $5!

Posted on January 15, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted to have your own self-hosted WordPress blog, right now is a perfect time to get started.

Right now Godaddy and Hostgator are running special deals that will allow you to register your own domain name AND get your first month of web hosting from one of the best web hosts in the business for a grand total of just $5.00!

There are several options for creating a blog for free, but regardless of which free blogging platform you choose you’ll be very limited in regards to what you can and cannot do with your blog (such as customize your blog and/or make money from it).

By purchasing your own domain name and inexpensive web hosting plan, you can rest assured that you’ll be able to do anything you want with your blog!

It’s easy to create your own self-hosted WordPress blog for only $5.00. First, lets snag a domain name for $4.99! Here’s how: [Read more…]

ATTN Bloggers: You need to stop using the ‘Broken Link Checker’ plugin on your WordPress blog immediately!

Posted on November 5, 2019

If you’re a blogger you probably know how important it is to keep your blog free of broken links.

And if you do, there’s a good chance that you have a plugin titled “Broken Link Checker” installed on your WordPress blog.

If so, you need to remove it right away!

It’s recently been discovered that this plugin is compromised by an extremely dangerous XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability.

I won’t go into the details of this critical security flaw here, but if you’re interested in why it’s do dangerous you can get all the info right here.

For now, suffice it to say that having this plugin installed leaves your blog wide open to hackers.

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How to limit the number of Post Revisions that WordPress will save for your posts and pages

Posted on November 2, 2019

If you have a blog that runs on WordPress you’ve probably noticed how every time you make a change to a post or page WordPress creates a copy of the previous version and stores it in the WordPress database.

These copies are called “Post Revisions”, and they can come in real handy when you want to revert back to an older version of a post. Simply select the version you want to revert to and the WordPress editor will make it happen.

But there’s a problem with these Post Revisions. Every time one is created it basically creates a new copy of the post you’re working on and stores it in the WordPress database. [Read more…]

Review: ProBlogger’s Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Posted on October 27, 2019

Many people dream of blogging for a living, but relatively few bloggers earn enough from their blogs to live comfortable and secure lives. But one person who has achieved that goal (and more) is “Problogger” Darren Rowse.

Darren has teamed up with co-author Chris Garrett to put together the ultimate roadmap to earning a comfortable living as blogger.

And believe me, if you like the idea of working from home doing something you love AND making the kind of money you’d like to make, this roadmap will surely help get there.

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income (#ad) lays out everything you need to do in order to create, publish and maintain a successful blog, then use it to generate a healthy income for you and your family. [Read more…]

ATTN Bloggers: Chrome is now flagging non-https pages as ‘Not Secure’ right in the address bar!

Posted on June 12, 2019

If you’re a blogger and your blog hasn’t yet been secured with SSL/TLS encryption you need to get that done ASAP!

Back in December 2017 I wrote this post warning bloggers about the need to get their blogs encrypted before Google started actively penalizing non-secured sites.

Well, that day has come…

Google recently rolled out an update to their Chrome browser that causes it to now flag unencrypted pages as “Not Secure” right in the address bar!

Up until recently it was widely understood that only sites that collected credit card data or other sensitive visitor information really needed to be encrypted, but Google has changed that by deciding to clearly mark non-encrypted pages as “Not Secure”.

To show you what I’m talking about, I took a partial screenshot of a web page that I knew to be unencrypted at the time I began writing this post (the site has since been encrypted): [Read more…]