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Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

Sauce The Game — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:02:28 -0000

That auto-backup plugin I think may be one of the most useful plugins you listed there, just thinking about it now. It is good to have a backup on your PC/e-mail that you can easily access in the event of a problem.

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Start Blogging — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:20:08 -0000

I need that instant upgrade plugin. I'm always nervous about upgrading my wordpress!

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Spoof Videos — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:14 -0000

Thanks Cow this is really a good idea and I am going to back up my blog before performing it...Hope it doesnot break my blog and make me MOO

Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

shy guy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:54:51 -0000

I've using Wordpress Database Backup plugin from that url..
And I stored it at my computer..
But what I want to do if there's something wrong with my wordpress??
Coz there' only a word that I don't understand at that txtfile...
Maybe you can explain ..

Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

Hafiz Dhanani — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:00:47 -0000

Hmmm. I hate to put a dampener on things, put I'm not convinced that a 'slightly modified' guest post should be published on a blog like this. I find the time to read John Chow dot Com because I appreciate the value of the blog. I know that the cow is on vacation, but I still don't think it's an excuse.

Am I being too harsh? What do you guys think?

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Jorge — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:13:01 -0000

Nice tips!

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Blog Contest Central — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:15 -0000

Thanks. I think the blank index.html in the plugin directory is a great idea.

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GlobalMasterPlan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:19:10 -0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
@alanj878: You'll have to weigh the pluses and minuses of using a hosted solution like blogger. The main reason I host my own is because I want to have a backup of everything I create and Blogger doesn't help with this. It's also more difficult to monetize a hosted site.

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Affiliate Confession — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:55:17 -0000

Thanks for the info on how to do this. I need to get on it.

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Laarni — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:40:34 -0000

Thank you for the tip. WordPress should consider this. HEYYYY! I'm in love with your site.

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Chris Guthrie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:01:37 -0000

Hmmm, I already have my dedicated server set up to do a dump to the second harddrive everynight but imo the more backups you do the better.

I think I'll check this plugin out soon.

Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

alanj878 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:32:17 -0000

How about blogger since it is growing so fast. I wish I knew who could show me how to protect blogger.Since I have multiple blogger blogs

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Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

Koka Sexton — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:58:25 -0000

Thanks for the tips. I am adding all of them now. I never would have thought that a blog would be targeted for these types of attacks.

Re: Circling the Wagons: How to Protect Your Wordpress Site

Allen Michael Gurrea — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:08:03 -0000

I'd also suggest the wordpress plugin, Login Lockdown which will count the number of attempts someone tries to login in your wp-admin. Then it can block them when they reach the limit of failed login attempts.

This can help you against brute force login attempts.

http://www.bad-neighborhood...

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Enemy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:07:31 -0000

Thanks for these tips.
Have put some into place!

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Si Philp — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:29:39 -0000

Another option would be to setup the admin area as a secure directory so that the user is then confronted with a username/password dialogue? Suppose it depends on how secure you want to be. I like the idea of nailing down ip address access though ( goes off thinking about subtext admin control ).

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AndrewPavelski — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:38:25 -0000

Thanks for the plugins. I'm going to test out the instant upgrade one very soon!

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Neil Duckett — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:57:49 -0000

Good tip on the plug-in, looks like a time saver.

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Mike Huang — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:14:32 -0000

Interesting post, I'll keep this in mind.

-Mike

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hookey4 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:30 -0000

i need to check out that instant upgrade plugin. never knew it existed.

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Technology Blog — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:05:26 -0000

Cool tips thanks 4 dat!