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Ways to Help Defend WordPress From Attackers and BotNets

As I’m writing this, MidnightRyder.com is under continuous attack from a BotNet. Of course, you might notice that it’s still up and running just fine – there’s reasons for that, and I’m going to help you keep yours up and running, too. Not familiar with the term “BotNet”? I’ll simplify a bit here: it’s a …

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Why I’m Still Using DreamHost, 10 Years Later (And Lessons For Other Businesses To Consider)

10 years ago I got burned by my host.  Almost without warning, they went out of business – I didn’t have a whole lot of time to evaluate who I wanted to move to, so I did some quick Googling.  Well, actually, I didn’t Google it.  At that time Alta-Vista would have been the major …

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Save Ferris Fundraiser Plugin ( and link exchange! )

As part of The Save Ferris Project that’s ramping up this week, we’ve released our first bit of project marketing tools for it:  The official Save Ferris Corner Ribbon plugin for WordPress.  Download it, install it, and it adds a “Save Ferris” ribbon to the upper right corner of the page (just like this one) …

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Plot Over Time for WordPress

Uses the Google Chart Tools API for charting data entered in WordPress posts using MetaTags. Tracks up to 10 different data points, supports Area Chart, Line Chart, Pie Chart, Bar Chart, and Column Chart styles, any custom style options you’d like to include, and number of other options. Be sure to read the webpage for full notes and updates. Based on Tom Fotherby’s Fotherplot, however shares very little code with the original, and instead of requiring changes to a page or template, it uses shortcode to add graphs to a page or post.

WordPress Training Starting September 8th, 2011

Part of every website project I do is a training component – usually two hours, give or take a little based on how quickly the customer picks it up.  It’s a hands-on training for creating new posts, new pages, editing menus, and the other core features of WordPress.  It’s not the worlds most in-depth training, …

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Improving WordPress Performance With W3 Total Cache & Cloud Flare

Almost without fail I add caching to all the sites I deal with for customers (and myself) at the end of the project.  And for the longest time the procedure was always the same thing:  add WP-SuperCache, enable it, and do just a slight bit of tweaking to get it all nice and streamlined. WP-SuperCache …

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