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Locking Down and Securing Your WordPress Login Page

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

There’s a severe bot-net attack going on right now that is putting many WordPress sites at risk of being exploited. Some bots are SEO bots looking to drop links in your content, while others want to plant malware / MySQL database injections / backdoor Trojans on your site. Because these attacks are originating from home computers, there’s really no way…

Is There A Plugin That Rotates Ads Randomly In The Sidebar?

Posted on March 6, 2013 by wpguide | 3 Comments

If you want to test which offers will bring you the most money, then it’s a good idea to randomly rotate your ads. You can throw up a few different offers as 250 x 250 graphical banners and have them rotate in your sidebar randomly on each page load. Here are three different ways to rotate ads in WordPress –…

Bloggers: There are Better Video Hosting Options than Youtube

Posted on February 5, 2013 by wpguide | 3 Comments

YouTube is great for building brand awareness and trying to kickstart viral video campaigns: you will get eyeballs in front of your videos just by uploading your video to their community. For building branding and awareness, posting on YouTube / MetaCafe / DailyMotion/ Vimeo is a great strategy. In addition, a video on YouTube will more often than not outrank…

Incapsula vs. Distil.it for Content and Bot Protection

Posted on February 4, 2013 by wpguide | 4 Comments

Most of the bots that are visiting your website are far from friendly. Whether you’re worried about viruses or web scrapers, your sites would benefit from having a filter in front of it to weed out the bad bots. Cloudflare is the most popular solution, and although it’s free, it isn’t the best. Cloudflare protection from SQL injections is limited,…

Is WP Engine WordPress Hosting Worth the Price?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by wpguide | 4 Comments

WP Engine is a new breed of boutique or managed WordPress hosting that’s expensive but good. WP Engine manages the server optimizations so that WordPress runs optimally and they also handle security for you. They have some very performance oriented server tweaks (their webserver is actually Varnish running in front of nginx in front of Apache). You don’t use W3…

Setting Up W3 Total Cache – Some Troubleshooting Tips

Posted on August 7, 2012 by wpguide | 0 Comments

If you want your WordPress site to run at its fastest, you should enable caching on your site. W3 Total Cache is by far the most popular caching plugin for WordPress, but it might not be the best option on shared hosts. In this post, I want to go over several common problems setting up W3 Total Cache, and I…