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Yes, there is really a WordPress attack happening right now
At about noon today I installed the Limit Logon Attempts WordPress plugin due to the recent reports of a major bot net attack on WordPress sites going on. Since then I’ve received the following...
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The Year Without Pants
Author Scott Berkun author of the educational and entertaining Confessions of a Public Speaker is releasing his next book on September 17: The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work....
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WordPress now publicizes to Google+
Users of WordPress.com and Jetpack via WordPress.org (as of version 2.7 released today,) can now use the Publicize function to automatically send their blog posts to Google+ profiles and pages. This is...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Changing authors in WordPress
It isn’t something you’ll need to do all that often, but there will come a time where you may want to change the author’s name on a WordPress post. Here’s how you can do it: Make sure the new author...
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Tuesday Tech Tips: Embedding Content in WordPress
Those of you that know me, know I’m a big fan of WordPress. All of my personal sites run on WordPress, both the Greece Historical Society and Friends of the Aurora Public Library sites which I manage...
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What happened when Google discovered I had “Unnatural Outbound Links”
On Sunday, August 17th I woke up and checked my e-mail. Within my inbox was the following e-mail from Google: http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/: Unnatural outbound links Google has detected a pattern...
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WordPress proactively reacts to Gmail passwords leak
Bravo WordPress! This week, a group of hackers released a list of about 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords. This list was not generated as a result of an exploit of WordPress.com, but since a...
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JD Thomas, a white-hat SEO and WordPress consultant, will discuss how to improve the appearance of WordPress posts and pages in search engine results and when shared on social media. He will be...
View ArticleTuesday Tech Tip: A Bug in Chrome 45 Causes WordPress Admin Menu to Break
Via WP Tavern: Within the last five weeks, several people have reported an issue in Chrome that breaks the WordPress admin menu. If you hover the mouse cursor over menu items in the sidebar, they’ll...
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