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Question from Bobby: I need some fast help, Rick. I updated a plugin on my WordPress blog and now none of the pages will load!
When I visit the site all I get is a blank page with the words “500 Internal Server Error” on it. I can’t even log in to the dashboard to disable the bad plugin!
Can you tell me how to fix this error and get my blog back up? [Read more…]
Question from Gwendolyn: I write a WordPress blog where I talk about women’s issues and I always update LinkedIn with the URL to every post I write.
I’ve been doing this for over two years and LinkedIn has always displayed a photo from the post along with the title and text snippet, but lately it’s been omitting the photo about half the time.
Is there a setting that I might have inadvertently changed to cause the photo not to be displayed on some updates? Am I doing something wrong? [Read more…]
If you write a WordPress blog you probably want your posts and pages to be read by as many people as possible. After all, the entire reason for blogging is to share information with others.
But that being said, there might be times when you would like to make a certain post or page available only to a select group of people.
The purpose of this post is to explain how to limit who is allowed to view a post or page that you don’t want to make available to the general public. [Read more…]
Do you have a WordPress blog? If so, you’re probably concerned that hackers could break into it and either deface it or hi-jack it for their own illicit purposes.
Well, I’m here to tell you that your concern is well-founded.
Hackers are always looking for vulnerable blogs to attack, and with WordPress being the most popular blogging platform on the Internet, the blogs powered by it are bombarded daily with hacking attempts. [Read more…]
Do you run a WordPress blog?
If so, you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if your blog got hacked or your server’s hard drive crashed?
I know I have, and it isn’t a very pleasant thing to think about.