Tag: security
WordPress Search Tips and Security Flaws
If you want to customize WordPress’s search functionality you’ll have to scour the internet for bits of WordPress code in a post apocalyptic wasteland of seemingly irrelevant information. Not anymore! I’ve put these chunks of code and tips below to help you customize your users’ search experience without banging your head against the wall to get things working. In some situations you may have strangle your WordPress search for security/survival reasons, but don’t worry, we’ll cover that too.
WordPress Security Plugins and Precautions
About: Web Design
On Mar 22, 2010
Written by: Ash Blue
Tags: content management systems, plugins, security, WordPress
Lets say that on your way to work a very shady man with a brown paper bag over his head follows you. Before entering your workplace, he asks for your social security number and credit cards. Willingly you hand them over to him… why would you do that? In the same way why would you leave your WordPress installation open for hackers? A security failure can put your users private information at risk, hijack all transactions, and turn your email accounts into porn spam machines. Perhaps your website has already been hacked and you don’t even know it. Below I’ve listed some plugins and tips that will make WordPress’s simple security more like a mobile fortress.
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