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Wordpress
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WordPress Plugin: Lock Accounts After Invalid Logins with User Locker
02 Dec 2009 by Dustin Patterson / 8 Comments
As the popularity of content management systems such as WordPress increases, the number of security threats will also increase. Your first defense against intruders is the WordPress login page. By default, there is no limit to the number of times a user can attempt to login to WordPress. This makes your website vulnerable to brute force and dictionary attacks. Making sure you have selected a...
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How to Keep WordPress Secure with WP Security Scan
02 Oct 2009 by Dustin Patterson and Evan Wondrasek / 4 Comments
If you’re running a WordPress self-hosted website, you are probably aware that WordPress’s popularity has caused it to become a frequent target for hackers. Aside from keeping your WordPress software up-to-date (which is the most important step you can take to secure your website), it is critical to make sure your site’s folder permissions are correct. Folder permissions dictat...
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How To: Install WordPress Locally in Mac OS X
13 Jul 2009 by Patrick Vinge / 30 Comments
Mac only: This guide will show you how to install WordPress on your local computer, which will allow you to test tweaks or modify a theme for your current website without making live changes. To get started, you’ll need to download the following files: WordPress XAMPP for OSX - An Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl Step One – Installing XAMPP: Once both downloads ha...
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Fix: Featured Content Gallery WordPress Plugin Displays Incorrectly in Internet Explorer 6
10 Apr 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 26 Comments
For many websites, the Featured Content Gallery for WordPress provides the centerpiece and main focal point of the front page (Techerator included). This plugin has the ability to display posts in a specific category as well as a graphic and accompanying text for a great preview of articles on the site. The Problem When doing some cross-browser compatibility checking, I noticed that the Featured...
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How To: Remove the Smiley from the WordPress.com Stats Plugin
10 Apr 2009 by Evan Wondrasek
One of the first plugins I installed when building the Techerator website was WordPress.com Stats, a plugin which offered useful and practical statistics (instead of the overwhelming metrics that Google Analytics and others provide) with the added benefit that since the statistics monitoring is hosted by WordPress, it would have no adverse impact on the site’s performance. The only require...
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