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6 simple steps to hardening WordPress

Posted in September 16th, 2007
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There are some basic steps you can take to help limit your exposure to malicious behavior directed at your WordPress blog. My intention with this article is not to make your website bullet-proof (if such a thing exists) but to cover the most common exploits/weaknesses. File and directory permissions have been discussed elsewhere but I’ll [...]

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Integrate PunBB into your WordPress site

Posted in August 28th, 2007
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I wanted to add a forum to my WordPress blog but everything I came across did not integrate well (design/page continuity, etc.) or was too simple for my tastes… Then I came across a tutorial here (there are a few around, that’s just the one I tripped across). Following the tutorial I had a somewhat [...]

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Integrating a Help Desk into WordPress in 15 minutes or less

Posted in December 1st, 2006
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I had an interest in adding a Help Desk to my site where clients could submit ‘tickets’ that would be tracked (and stored in a MySQL database, preferably alongside my current WordPress one) and when changed/updated both the client and I would be notified via email…
I had noticed a reference to Hesk (v0.93.1) in my [...]

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WordPress Tools and Resources

Posted in August 25th, 2006

Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the down side can be that there’s no central ‘management’ or quality control over these. It [...]

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WordPress Troubleshooting: Finished installation and it doesn’t work!

Posted in August 23rd, 2006
Published in Computers, Things, WordPress

This article was inspired by the fact that WordPress downloads recently passed the 1,000,000 mark.
There are some very common problems that pop-up frequently on the WordPress Support Forums that can stop an installation dead in it’s tracks. This is my attempt at covering these issues while still relying on the WordPress codex.
To provide a [...]

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