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Understanding and Getting Rid of the WordPress Pharma Hack
Hacks catch WordPress site owners by surprise since they are carried out discreetly to exploit websites’ resources. The Pharma hack makes use of your website’s search rankings. Do you know how to get rid of it? Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been covering some of the ill-effects of being hacked, and how to…
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WordPress Sitemaps and their Importance
One of the most powerful ways to make your website more search engine friendly, is to use a sitemap. But what are sitemaps, and how do you create one for your site? What is a site map, and why is it important? Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo crawl through the contents of a…
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Do you have a disaster recovery plan for your WordPress site?
Why do you need it? Can your business continue to function if you were to lose your data? If your answer is a clear no, then having a disaster recovery plan is a must for you. At some point down the road, your data is going to be in danger. It could be a machine…
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How small WordPress agencies can land big clients? Lessons from rtCamp- Asia’s first WordPress.com VIP partner agency
It is no mean feat for a WordPress agency in India to have become Asia’s first WordPress.com VIP partner. The partnership means that they are in contention to land some of the biggest projects in the world. Today, as Rahul Bansal, the founder of rtCamp states that, their client list contains only ‘big clients’- enterprise…
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How to be a successful freelance WordPress developer: Lessons from, Rahul Bansal, the founder of rtCamp
Rahul Bansal, the founder of rtCamp; Asia’s first WordPress.com VIP partner agency, began his career as a freelance WordPress (WP) developer. The success of the company today can be traced back to ideas that were born during those days. Being a freelance, WordPress developer in 2007-08 India is an interesting story for many reasons. Among…
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BlogVault makes WordPress migrations to Pantheon easy with ‘Pantheon Migrations’
BlogVault has developed, and in collaboration with Pantheon created Pantheon Migrations. Pantheon is the world’s largest website management platform, delivering Drupal and WordPress as a service. Pantheon’s multi-tenant, container-based cloud platform enables web teams to build, launch, and run all of their websites from a single dashboard with ease. You can now migrate your WordPress…
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Password Protecting wp-login.php with HTTP Authentication
The WordPress admin dashboard can only be accessed by entering in your username and login password. It is good practice to use a strong login password at all times, as this makes it difficult for bots and hackers to break into your admin dashboard. However, the internet has never been a very safe place, and…
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How to Block Google from Indexing your WordPress Site
So you’ve just installed WordPress on your system and are raring to go. You’re thinking of how to start and what to start with. However, before you embark on the journey of developing your website, there’s a tiny little thing you need to do – prevent Google and other search engines from crawling your site….
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Why the Basics of Journalism work for Blogging
From the newsroom Sangeeta Cavale RK There is a lot common to both the basics of writing an article and to blogging. Certain vital tools and tricks learnt during the course of one’s career as a journalist would certainly come in most handing in honing one’s blogging skills. There are not rigid hard and…
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WordPress Security: Part 1 Securing wp-config.php
We had earlier given an overview on How to secure your WordPress site. This post is first of a series, where in we will detail the steps needed to make your WordPress site more secure. Every WordPress site contains a file called `wp-config.php`. Many of us, who work closely with WordPress would have already seen this…
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