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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…
Beginner: Adding Images And Videos To WordPress Posts and Pages
Adding images to WordPress is a very simple process, and hopefully after reading through this quick tutorial, you will agree with that statement. While…
Top 10 Productivity Tools for Webmasters
A productivity tool is a piece of software that can help you increase work efficiency by streamlining your daily tasks. A variety of utility…
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic?
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic? The main reason why a Pinterest-like page is welcome to WordPress is that the former…
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…
How To Import Huge MySQL Files Via Shell or PHPMyAdmin
SQL Files can quickly become really large, sometimes up to a GB and more depending on your site. Knowing how to quickly import huge…
Extensive Guide On Setting Up Advertising On A WordPress Blog Using Plugins
If you run a WordPress blog and you have been approached by someone wanting to do some advertising with you but you aren’t sure…
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…
How To Change The Hostname in CentOS 6 and 7
CentOS7 is finally here! In this guide, I will take a quick look at how you can change the hostname in CentOS
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.…
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,…
Case Study: Using Article Spinning To Quickly Generate Content And How You Can Spin Text Safely Post-Panda
Article spinning is/was an approach many marketers leverage(d) to distribute a fair amount of “unique” content around the Internet stemming from just one base…
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
Making Drupal 7 More User-Friendly: Line Breaks And WYSIWYG Headlines
For the past weeks, every day I learnt a little about Drupal. For me Drupal is a wild horse that has to be tamed…
CentOS: See progress of copy with this tiny server utility
Server utilities are a great way to make your life as a webmaster easier. Have you ever wanted to see the progress of “cp,…
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…
National Cyber Security Awareness Part 1: How To Avoid Online Scams And “Homograph Attacks”
October is the National Cyber Security month. Our webhosting partners Singlehop asked me to write an article to raise awareness for this cause to…
3 Methods To Check What CentOS Version You Are Running (5, 6 or 7)
CentOS is the default server operating system on most Linux servers these days, but many servers still run CentOS 5, which Method 1: Cat…
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,…
What are responsive WordPress themes, and why are they important?
The idea of a responsive WordPress theme, or responsive website design in general, is very simple, but very powerful. However, before explaining “responsive design”…
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.…
4 Tips On Performing Your Next WordPress Maintenance
In general, WordPress offers a mostly hands off experience. On occasion you will see numbers show up in the left side bar of the…
CentOS 7: Determine if you are using 64 or 32 bit Server version
If you are a running a server it is often important to know what version you are using, 32-bit or 64-bit. Here are multiple…
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…
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…
How To Losslessly Compress And Convert JPGs to Progressive JPGs Using JPEGtran
Most of what we download on the web are images. In fact most websites these days rarely serve a lot of CSS or JSS…
7 Ways to Speed Up WordPress
Speed has a lot to do with optimizing your site’s performance because everyone nowadays likes things fast; fast connection, fast loading pages, fast file…
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…
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…
5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Drupal For Your New Website
Content Management Systems (CMS) like Joomla or WordPress provide sufficient tools for managing your websites, but if you’re looking for something that has more…
How To Disable SELinux On CentOS 6.x (Possible NSA Backdoor?)
Many no longer trust SELinux (an open-source contribution by the NSA) and rightfully want to disable it. Here’s how you can quickly disable it…
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…
Failover: Restart Or Shutdown Apache If Server Load Is Higher Than 10 (Plus APC Troubleshooting)
I’m currently looking into possible failover strategies. Of course, you should always try to make sure you scan your error_log files for possible problems…
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…