iPhone and iPad stuff – Most Useful Things
After a nice idea I got from one of our blog visitors (read this) we've added support for your own Yourls.org installation in the WP-Status.net plugin for WordPress. Continue Reading
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During September we have a special price on .COM domain names at eXavier.com, so now you can register your .COM domain names for only $7.99 (regular price $9.99/year). Continue Reading
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About a week ago I wrote a short post about Online File Folder and now it's time for a follow up post with a practical example on how to use the Online File Folder. This post will be about backing up your WordPress blog to an off-server location that's safe and far away from your [...] Continue Reading
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After a suggestion from one of the users of our plugin WP Email-to-Facebook for WordPress we have now added a new feature: two optional text fields to be added to each update. Continue Reading
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The latest security breach at WordPress.org where someone (most likely) have guessed or used brute force to find out the passwords for some of the plugin authors and insert malicious code into their plugins, shows that using the same password for multiple services could be really dangerous for both you and your customers/partners. Continue Reading
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Earlier in May I wrote about a plugin for WordPress blogs that will limit the number of login attempts you can make before you get blocked. This is purely done to protect your blog from brute force attacks where someone tries passwords until they find a matching one. Continue Reading
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Even if we all know pretty well what we should do to security our WordPress blogs, it's easy to forget to setup some of the security measure or simply just set them up incorrectly. Therefore we've created a free security scan! Continue Reading
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I've previously mentioned that a secure password that's hard to guess is key when it comes to security. Since even a password with random characters (both numbers, letters and special characters) can be cracked if enough time is spent trying to guess the password you need to protect your WordPress blog from letting people guess [...] Continue Reading
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The fantastic people at Automattic has created yet another fantastic piece of software called Jetpack. This plugin for WordPress blogs contains several fantastic features, which are almost impossible to live without after you've tried this plugin Continue Reading
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Everyone that got a blog may from time to time get a visitor using a smartphone or something similar. Since most themes for computers with normal web browsers and a big screen size aren't that good looking on small smartphone screens (I know the screens are pretty big if you compare to a few years [...] Continue Reading
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