A fellow Alex Jeffreys student had their WordPress blog hacked recently. You can read about the whole story here: http://www.imnirvana.com/inside-look-a-hacked-wordpress-blog-video WordPress versions 2.8.0 through 2.8.3 apparently have a massive secuirity hole which means its really easy for anyone to change the admin password on your blog in moments. Version 2.8.4 fixes this secuirity problem. More [...]
. I’m using a plugin called “After the Deadline” which is a spelling and grammar checker (see previous post), I’ve just uploaded & installed the latest version .40, now my blog doesn’t work, & I can’t even log into Admin on my blog! Yikes… But all is not Lost In Space, as with all plugins [...]
Let say there’s a new shiny version of WordPress available, it sooo tempting to upgrade it, wait…… You definitely want to be backing up your blog, before you do upgrade, I know you want to just go ahead, but it’s important you back up everything on your blog first. Here’s a video from Educhalk.org about [...]
In my last post, I told you about some of the plugins I have installed on my blog to prevent spam comments. If you don’t already know, an IP address is a unique number that everyone gets who’s logged onto the internet. Peoples IP address either doesn’t change (called static) or they are allocated a new number by their internet service provider [...]
I’ve just worked out how to add an optin to my WordPress Blog, I was going to do my second tutorial video showing you how to do this, but to be honest its already been done well by a fellow Alex Jeffreys student – Dave-Nicholson. You may as well go to his blog, and watch it here: [...]
