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10 Proven Ways to Protect Your WordPress Blog

September 24, 2022February 17, 2016 by Paul Salmon

Knowing how to best protect your WordPress blog is an important aspect of maintaining a blog. It seems that almost on a regular basis a WordPress blog gets compromised by a malicious visitor, who installs malware, deletes files, or simply defaces the blog. As I read about how blogs get hacked I also realize that many of these hacks could have been prevented with regular maintenance, or by following stricter security protocols.

Understanding How WordPress uses MySQL

January 21, 2015 by Paul Salmon

WordPress is arguably the most popular content management software (CMS) available. The fact that WordPress is free, easy-to-use and has a tremendous amount of support available makes it an ideal CMS for creating and managing a website or blog.

While WordPress is designed to be easy-to-use, it also has enough complexity that allows you to create about anything for your website. For the average user, however, you won’t need to manage this complexity as there are plugins and templates to do most of the work for you. For others, you may want to look at what WordPress has to offer.

A WordPress site can be typically divided into two segments:

The general look and feel of a WordPress website generated by logic and templates.
A MySQL database in which all content powering the website is stored.

WordPress, Drupal and Joomla: Which One Is the Best?

August 16, 2016November 10, 2014 by Paul Salmon

There are plenty of content management systems out there, but when it comes to usability and popularity, three content management systems rank high above all others. Those three content management systems are WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. If you ask developers “which CMS is best?” you will find most people are supporting these three.

However, the problem is you can’t use all of them for one web development project. So, which one is truly best for all types of web development projects? Some may vote for Drupal and some may vote for WordPress, but there is one thing that you need to know first. While all these 3 content management systems are really good and offer plenty of tools to make the web development process easier, each of them have some drawbacks as well.

5 Ways You Can Use Your WordPress Backup

September 29, 2014 by Paul Salmon

One of the best ways of protecting your WordPress blog or website is to perform a regular backup of all your website’s files and database tables. While the main reason for backing up your WordPress website is to easily restore the website in case it is no longer accessible, there are other reasons backing up your WordPress site can come in handy. Let’s look at 5 ways you can use your WordPress backup.

Tools to Help Build an Amazing Website

February 20, 2014September 11, 2013 by Paul Salmon

If you are planning on creating a website you may want to look into the tools that can help make your online idea a reality. There are many different tools – some user-friendly, others are more advanced – that you can use.

Below are some of the more popular tools that are used by millions of webmasters today.

5 Tips to Protect Your WordPress Login

September 25, 2022September 12, 2012 by Paul Salmon

There is a lot of information about how you can keep your WordPress blog secure and safe from hackers. Such tips involve keeping your WordPress veresion and plugins updated, as well as backing up all your blog files and database.

From a slightly different perspective, you may also want to take steps to ensure you protect your WordPress login to ensure any unauthorized visitor can gain access to your entire blog. There are several things you can do to help keep the login secure, all that I have done on my blog as well.

Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

August 15, 2013May 7, 2012 by Guest Blogger

Hosting a website is cheaper and simpler than it has ever been. You can host a WordPress blog for free on wordpress.com, but that approach comes with significant limitations on using your own domain and monetizing your site; eventually WordPress will want you to start paying for things.

Using other hosting providers often entails signing up to a year-long contract, and unless you are prepared to pay for more than a basic account, the level of control you have is limited.

WordPress Web Hosting: 5 Must-Know Tips

August 15, 2013February 10, 2012 by Guest Blogger

When starting a blog, WordPress is probably one of the best blogging platforms out there because not only that it has superb, professional themes, but also remarkably fast and easy to use. But if you want to make money out of your blog or website and take it to the next level, you cannot take advantage of the free web hosting option that WordPress has because not only that it has restrictions, but also the disk space and bandwidth is extremely limited. The amusing thing is that there are a lot of best WordPress hosting providers offering fantastic features at an affordable price. There are so many of them that finding the best WordPress web hosting for your website become a tedious task.