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My Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

Aug 21, 2010   //   by Les Proctor   //   Wordpress  //  8 Comments

Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins for Direct Marketing 2.0

Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins

It's a work in process

 

 The greatest thing about WordPress is that it’s open source, and there’s a huge community built around designing and developing WordPress Websites.        

Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites on the Internet, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.  It has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install–at last count there are 10,872 different plugins!       

In fact, there’s a plugin for almost every kind of functionality I’ve ever wanted or imagined to add to any of my blogs.  Undoubtedly you have seen blog posts claiming to be the Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins, but here is my very own Ultimate List of WordPress Plugins that I have used or tested, and use regularly in many of my websites.     

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How to Fix a Compromised WordPress Website

Aug 4, 2010   //   by Les Proctor   //   Software & Apps, Wordpress  //  1 Comment

Do you have a compromised WordPress Website?

compromised wordpress website

Have you been hacked recently?

If you have a compromised WordPress Website that has been hacked recently and affected by malware, you are not alone, particularly if you’re on a shared server (like the Rackspace Cloud, or Godaddy for example).

These attacks are not specific to any particular hosting company or to WordPress. These malware attacks can affect any website running out-dated software hosted by any company.

I have 20+ WordPress websites hosted on The Rackspace Cloud (about which by the way I am a “raving fan”). And several of my sites, along with innumerable others, were the target of malicious hackers. Rackspace has been great throughout this whole process. And they reminded me ‘why it’s important to implement security measures in the first place‘ and keep my software updated with the most recent patches.

An ‘ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure’. But what are you supposed to do if you’ve been hacked? How do you fix a compromised WordPress Website?

How to fix a compromised WordPress website

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