Quick start guide to WordPress for editors
As usual I’m letting you get a peak at the latest draft for The website editors quick start guide to WordPress. If you get a chance have a look and let me know what you think. Always grateful to be told about typos, but also interest in anything you think I have missed.
Botnet, ‘brute force’ attacks and keeping WordPress secure
There has been a lot of attention recently to open source software, like WordPress, being vulnerable to being hacked. Here are some easy steps you can take to make your site more secure against hacks and malware.
Why use WordPress?
As those who know me will testify, I have not always been the biggest fan of Content Mangment Systems (CMS). In my time I have worked on a few large commercial systems and that experience has left me a little cynical. I still come to each new system with a touch of healthy sceptism. However, I have now been using Wordpress, for my own and client sites, since the release of 3.0 back in June last year (June 2010). Why did I make the jump?