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Why Managed WordPress Backups Are Better Than Standalone Backup Plugins

Reaching for your spare tire, only to find out that it is not working; or worse, that it is missing altogether is unacceptable. WordPress backups are a little more complicated than changing car tires and just like your car tires, there is a lot riding on them too. Your lifetime’s work or the hard-earned reputation…

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W3 Total Cache, and What To Do in Case of an Outdated Plugin

WordPress website owners are always cautioned to keep their installations of WordPress, plugins, and themes up to date. But when a plugin hasn’t been maintained or updated from the developer’s end, potential exploits threaten everyone who has it installed. Being someone who grew up in the 90’s, I still love video and audio cassettes. But…

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WordPress Backup To Dropbox: Pros, Cons & What You Need to Know

Making WordPress Backup to Dropbox seems like an attractive option due to ease of use & low cost.  However, is it the best practice & will restores be as easy as backups? There are generally two ways you can make a WordPress backup to Dropbox. The first way requires two processes to be completed. You…

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An In-depth Review of NinjaFirewall Against Common WordPress Attacks

“Why do hackers hack websites?”, is one of the more philosophical questions of anyone with a website. Whatever the size of your WordPress site, protecting it from the common attacks against websites is definitely a concern. Figuring out the best security option, (especially making the decision between a WordPress firewall and an antivirus) for your…

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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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Common Attacks on WordPress Sites 101: Backdoors

Removing malware from your website, and getting rid of hacks is a painstaking process. When you’re a website owner whose site has been hacked, your online reputation takes a hit. It’s only more distressing when you keep getting hacked. The reason behind this, most of the time, is a ‘backdoor’. Having a backdoor could be…

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Common Attacks to Protect your WordPress Site Against

Having your very own website used to be something reserved for developers once upon a time. All that changed with WordPress, and for the better.But it’s never over. Whether you run a small blog with a loyal following or a big e-commerce window, your website is an integral part of your life. It represents your…

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Watch Out for Poorly Coded Themes and Plugins

WordPress offers countless themes and plugins to its users, all of which have resulted in an exponential expansion of WordPress functionality, without changing its core structure. Today, whatever it is you wish to do with your website/on your website/to your website, there’s a plugin/theme for you to work with. To the untrained eye, all plugins…

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Setting Up Two-factor Authentication for WordPress with Google Authenticator

You know how they say that insects develop resistance to insecticides over time? Well, that’s sort of how it’s become with passwords these days. Passwords have been used to secure user accounts for such a long time now that they’ve started to lose their effectiveness. Of late, more and more hack attacks have become successful….

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Tweet your WordPress Post automatically

As soon as you have a new post ready on your website, it would be great to update your Twitter followers so that they can read the post. It is very convenient to be able to do this automatically whenever you have a new post. There are several WordPress plugins that provide this functionality. Let…

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