WooThemes released a security patch today for their theme framework. The vulnerability is related to a preview function and allows visitors to run and to see the output of any shortcodes used by your theme. Unfortunately, the vulnerability is now widely known (having been published on the Internet … Read more about WooThemes Security Patch – Critical Update
I'd like to invite you to a free security webinar I'll be speaking at on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Webinar Details: MyNAMS Live Training Webinar Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012Time: 8:00 - 9pm Eastern Time(Convert to your timezone) Topic: Protecting Your Business Assets Description: How to Spot … Read more about Free Live Security Training with Regina Smola 03/21/2012
Tighten Your WordPress Security on Dreamhost to Protect Your Blog I've been cleaning alot of WordPress sites infected with malware on DreamHost lately. I am finding some common denominators that put users hosting accounts and WordPress sites at risk: Used One-Click Installs to install the WordPress … Read more about WordPress Security Tip: DreamHost Enable Enhanced Security and Extra Web Security
Help increase security on your WordPress blog by using the Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner Plugin! TimThumb is a PHP script that crops, zooms, and resizes images. It's commonly used in WordPress themes and plugins. This script uses a cache directory from within your wp-content directory to grab and … Read more about WordPress Security Tip: Use Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner Plugin
Slow WordPress Plugins Can Hurt Your Site! You'll find me talking on the blog and in my email blasts about WordPress plugin security, but one area I haven't covered is how plugins can slow your website down. Did you know that even if a WordPress plugin is disabled it can still affect your site's … Read more about Are Your WordPress Plugins Making Your Site Slow And Vulnerable?
Wordpress 3 for Business Bloggers by Paul Thewlis "Covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online,and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog" Many of you … Read more about WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers Review
Wordpress 3 Cookbook by Ric Shreves "Focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems so that you can translate your site to one of the best" We found this book to be very helpful in many areas especially when it comes to advertising and SEO, but this book covers almost everything you … Read more about WordPress 3 Cookbook Review
Win a Copy of WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers & Wordpress 3 Cookbook We have teamed up with Packt Publishing to do a giveaway here on the blog. They have generously offered up 2 e-books for you to have a chance to win. So we will be choosing two lucky winners! Packt Publishing let us give … Read more about WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers & WordPress 3 Cookbook Giveaway