Category: Social Media
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moving from test to a live environment with WordPress
After moving files from a test environment to live, still using the test environment, change the settings from http://dev.yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com However – this doesn’t fix everything – because there are HIGHLY likely to be references in pages or posts to images/media on the old test environment – these will STOP working when you drop…
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If they get into your wordpress, can they execute php code?
Most wordpress exploits rely on the attacker getting into your site being able to run some kind of code – this is often DISASTROUS for your site – at the very least you can become a site infecting your visitors – at worst, they’ll take over your site, load hundreds or thousands of files to…
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Hiding the version of WordPress
Many bots trawl the internet looking for various content management systems to exploit – how they know you’re using a particular CMS is normally easy for them to determine by looking at the source of the site – be it Joomla! or Drupal, or WordPress – when they find the version you have, they’ll start…
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WordPress 3.0.2 fixes some security issues among other things – apply it today…
WordPress released the latest version of their content management system – 3.0.2 – and as usual, we recommend that you take the time to upgrade. Here is a link to the WordPress 3.0.2 release notes. This was a fairly minor maintenance release and each site we upgraded had ZERO issues – but as usual, we…
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11 Reasons Why You Need to Get a LIKE (Button)
Interesting article.. 11 Reasons Why You Need to Get a LIKE (Button) The author has some input into like buttons – which are putting facebook code onto your own pages or blog template – it’s just one way of sharing pages – another is the type of social networking buttons you see on this blog……
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Question: When is a wordpress blog, not a wordpress blog?
Answer: when it’s a boat anchor! WordPress with a ton of plugins can often become a bit of a slouch – even on snappy webservers… and I’ve seen it become downright boat-anchor on slower or heavily laden servers… so the search has always been on for ways to speed this sucker up… Various caching systems…
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you’re tweeting, you’re facebooking, you’re blogging and you’re screwing it up…
A recent event I attended was a horrible culmination of probably the worst information shot-gunning I have seen in recent months – learn how to mess up communication in social media age, and pick up a few tips on how to EFFECTIVELY market your events using social media, and best of breed communication tools.
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Twitter hacked: Security – are they serious?
twitter today confirmed a bug which allowed a user to “force” another user to follow them… you what?!? So in the world of social media, where a user’s behavior can be socially engineered, it turns out there is a way to turn them into following zombies? No-way! Get outta-here… sounds about as secure as an…