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Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even…

Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Design

Focusing on graphics alone is the main mistake people make when selecting a theme. To help you out, here’s a better approach.

Pro version of WP Migrate DB released

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

WordPress News

The free WP Migrate DB allows you to export your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths (handles serialized data), then allows you to save it to your computer. The pro version includes these features and…

Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

Development

Recurring content is present in just about all WordPress themes, and handling it properly is important to keep themes lean, extensible and scalable. So what’s the right approach for handling recurring content in different situations?

Big update to WordPress for Android

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2013

WordPress News

Android owners will be happy to know that WordPress for Android has received a big update. Personally, 've grown to really like using WordPress with my phone.

Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?

Curtis McHale

April 16, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.

Launching a product at a WordCamp

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

Business

In this post about the launch of FooPlugins, Adam Warner does a great job chronicling his experience with Brad Vincent of launching a product at WordCamp. It's a great read, with very nice advice for others that may be trying…

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Chris Jean, of iThemes, has done a nice job summarizing the recent flood of WordPress brute force login attacks, along with ways to prevent them. There is also a Codex page on handling brute force attacks that's getting a lot…

Fauxgo in the wild

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2013

WordPress News

Almost extinct, almost... [editor's note: this is what he's referring to.]

Easy Digital Downloads – One Year Old

Pippin Williamson

April 15, 2013

WordPress News

Today, Easy Digital Downloads is one year old. Let's take a look back over the last 365 days.

Brute force attacks call for an end to the default “Admin” WordPress user

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2013

WordPress News

In the light of recent events, Morten Rand-Hendriksen suggests it's time that WordPress stopped sending the wrong signals in allowing - even encouraging - the use of the vulnerable old default username.

Advice for speaking at WordCamps

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Lema offers some great advice for getting started with speaking at WordCamps. I completely agree with his points - it's very practical advice for new (and experienced) speakers.

Three projects to scale up WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2013

WordPress News

In the coming weeks Rocket Lift will release and showcase three open-source projects to improve how WordPress scales to larger sites.

Customer support web app for WordPress theme publishers

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2013

WordPress News

We're building a new customer support solution for theme publishers so they can handle support in less time and in fewer steps. We are looking for people to try it out when the beta launches - we think it's going…

Quick Hits: WordPress and Universal Analytics

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2013

Business

This post shows you a few additional metrics you can track in WordPress using Universal Analytics, the new Google Analytics.

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, has put together a number of ideas for possible designs of the post format UI proposed in WordPress 3.6 beta 1. She goes through a number of options from putting the post formats in…

Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled

Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong

Pro version of WP Migrate DB released

Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development

Big update to WordPress for Android

Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?

Launching a product at a WordCamp

A summary of recent WordPress security attacks

Fauxgo in the wild

Easy Digital Downloads – One Year Old

Brute force attacks call for an end to the default “Admin” WordPress user

Advice for speaking at WordCamps

Three projects to scale up WordPress

Customer support web app for WordPress theme publishers

Quick Hits: WordPress and Universal Analytics

An excercise in design of the new post format UI

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