October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
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Video: Switching to a Better Sitemap for WordPress
The Google XML Sitemap Generator plugin for WordPress was at one point the standard for dynamically generating an XML Sitemap in the WordPress environment.…
Is Your “Temporary” Online Service Business Standing in the Way of IM Goals?
Providing much-needed services online is a great way to offset the costs of your online business project or even provide a full-time income so…
Creating A Symbolic Link On CentOS 6.x For FFmpeg
Sometimes Drupal and other CMS’s have problems detecting system paths – it’s understandable since every server is using unique control panels and often completely…
Updated: ‘Shell Shock’ Remote Code Exploitation: How To Patch Bash And Determine If Your System Is Vulnerable
A remote code exploitation dubbed ‘Shell Shock’ has been uncovered by Stéphane Chazelas, a security and Linux specialist working for a large software firm.…
How to Increase Engagement on Google+
If you are trying to expand your reach to different social media platforms or if your company’s target demographic consists of young, tech-savvy consumers,…
Installing Git On CentOS 6.x
There are many tools out there that can make your daily webmaster life a little easier to manage. One of the few Unix-tools that…
Plugins to Avoid Using on Your WordPress Site, Some Alternate Recommendations, and 2 Worth Using on All Installs – Part 1
In this article I’d like to discuss a handful of WordPress plugins that would probably serve you well to avoid using on your WordPress…
35 Best Free WordPress Plugins of All Time (And For 2017)
WordPress is one of the best free content management systems / blog system that powers millions of websites and an incredibly high percentage of…
How to see a list of loaded Apache modules
Quite often, you need to figure out what Apache modules are currently loaded. If you have access to a shell on your server, you…
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…
Video: Simple Way to Add Schema.org Marked Up Review to WordPress Posts
If you’ve written a review in your WordPress blog and want to dress it up a little nicer with some extra “markup” (often called…
Screen Real Estate – 4 Ways to Optimize Productivity
Anyone who’s started any type of business online will tell you, time management is one of the most difficult things to master in working…
10 Online Security Tips For Freelancers, Writers And Affiliates
Working online is a great opportunity, but it is important to keep security in mind, especially since a lot of personal and financial information…
Tutorial: Installing Mod GeoIP on Cent OS 6 or 7
A webmaster should know how to install Apache modules and recompile Apache using apxs. In this article, I will take a closer look at…
5 Online Productivity Tools for Keeping Yourself On Track
Looking for more ways to stay focused when working online? If not, you most certainly should be. I write about productivity a lot because,…
5 Most Usable Layer Styles – Photoshop Layer Styles Explained
While the price point is pretty high, in the long run, Photoshop is going to serve you well professionally and nailing down how to…
Things to Consider When Launching a New WordPress Web Site
Until recently I had a very simplified checklist for launching a site powered by WordPress. The steps were basically as follows: a) Buy web…
CentOS: “Conflicts with file from package python-crypto-2.0.1-22.el6.x86_64”
This is another CentOS report to help fellow CentOS users. Here’s a workaround for the error “Conflicts with file from package”.
The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
8 Productivity Tips for Professional Webmasters
Deciding to make a living as a webmaster means taking on a lot of the kinds of responsibilities employed workers never have to worry…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
How To Install Epel Repo on CentOS 6 or 7
CentOS is one of the most reliable server operating systems. However, even CentOS does not include all RPM’s required to run and administrate your…
So Many Different Types of Hosting – What’s a Newbie to Do?
When you first start your business venture, things can be, well, complicated. You’ve got so many choices in everything that you do. It can…
Productivity Guide: Save Time As A Writer, Affiliate Or Webmaster With AutoHotKey
I considered recently the amount of time that it takes to perform certain tasks on the computer. I implemented a voice recognition app in…
Dev: How To Install CentOS, Nginx, MySQL, PHP On VirtualBox From Official RPM
In this guide, I want to take a closer look at VirtualBox and how you can quickly set up a CentOS box with LEMP…
How To Secure Your WordPress Installation (Video)
In this article I am going to discuss some of the general tweaks that can be performed to improve the security for a WordPress…
Plugins to Avoid Using on Your WordPress Site, Some Alternate Recommendations, and 2 Worth Using on All Installs – Part 2
In the first part of this article I talked about how I came about this list from WPEngine and I talked about the first…
5 Tips to Maximizing Drupal’s Efficiency
While Drupal is an effective CMS it can be quite draining on your PC as far as your RAM and CPU usage, but there…
Top 10 Free WordPress Themes for Professionals
WordPress is arguably the top blogging platform AND content management system on the Web, and it’s freely available. In addition, it is robust, extensible,…
An Amazing WordPress Plugin For Copywriters: Landing Pages
Many people ask me, “What are some good WordPress plugins and themes for which Copywriters can use to make their lives easier?”. While there…
DU: How To Validate Linux Server Backups Using Directory Size
Rsync is a pretty reliable tool to sync files from your server to a remote server, but how would you validate that all files…
Changing WordPress wp-admin Path Using Lockdown WP Admin
WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
Productivity Tip For Webmasters: Save Time Resizing Photos With Light Image Resizer
Previously called “VSO Image Resizer,” the “Light Image Resizer” tool helps save time for those that constantly modify images on their computer. This is…
A Budget Friendly Simplified Solution For Speeding Up Web Sites With Content Distribution And Caching
A Budget Friendly Simplified Solution For Speeding Up Web Sites With Content Distribution And Caching You probably hear it constantly that web page speeds…