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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…

Why I’m Quitting ManageWP for InfiniteWP

Posted on August 28, 2012 by wpguide | 17 Comments

I will confess that I use ManageWP, but I have one big problem with the service: the price. And I don’t mean just that it’s too expensive, it’s just the way that the developer (Vladimir Prelovac, who literally wrote the book on WordPress plugin development) has made the entry level “standard” plan close to useless: no backups, no uptime monitoring,…

Wordfence WordPress Plugin – Site Security Against Bad Bots

Posted on August 3, 2012 by wpguide | 5 Comments

Wordfence is a relatively new combination plugin / service for WordPress users worried about site security. This article aims to compare two aspects of the Wordfence WordPress plugin to competitors: site security options and anti-bot protection. Wordfence as a Security Plugin Here’s how Wordfence compares as a security plugin to three alternative ways of securing a WordPress site: Better WP…

Locking Down and Securing Your WordPress Login Page

Why I’m Quitting ManageWP for InfiniteWP

Wordfence WordPress Plugin – Site Security Against Bad Bots

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