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Secure your WordPress Login with Two-Factor Authentication

Daryl Lozupone — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:06:34 +0000

Securing your login screen is one of the simplest things you can do to help increase the security of your WordPress website. By implementing two-factor authentication, you make it much harder for people to gain unauthorized access to your WordPress dashboard. Fortunately, Duo Security is a free service (for up to ten users) offering two-factor [...]

WordPress Beginner’s Security Checklist

Daryl Lozupone — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:15:44 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of the WordPress Beginner’s Security Checklist. Our goal with this guide was to present a simple series of steps that everyone can follow to secure their WordPress website. We have included information on securing your login form, securing your configuration files, adding unique encryption keys, and plugins and other resources [...] Related posts:

WordPress Security Hardening

WordPress Security 101

Daryl Lozupone — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:38:08 +0000

You have put a lot of work into setting up your WordPress website. You have gotten it installed, added your plugins, chosen a theme, added your widgets, created your menus, and finally added posts and pages. But have you thought about security? Have you taken steps to protect your blog from people who want to [...]

How Do I use Custom Menus with WPTouch Pro?

Daryl Lozupone — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:57:23 +0000

In this short tutorial video, I show you how to set WPTouch Pro to use a custom WordPress menu and how to add icons to the menu items. Related posts:

BackupBuddy 2.0 First Looks!

Daryl Lozupone — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:08:13 +0000

After much anticipation and waiting, BackupBuddy 2.0 is finally here! For those that don’t know, BackupBuddy is an automated backup solution for WordPress (you can also check out this webinar on how to use BackupBuddy). This release has some major updates and improvements. In this article, I take a look at the new features of [...]

Beware the WordPress SEO gremlins!

Daryl Lozupone — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:20:02 +0000

If you use a plugin (such as All-in-One SEO or Headspace) or theme option to manage your SEO on your WordPress website, be careful of using shortcodes at the beginning of your post. By default, the majority of these plugins use the first 150 characters of the post content to generate the description meta-tag for [...]

Generate Mobile Specific Content Using WPTouch Pro Shortcodes

Daryl Lozupone — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:56:40 +0000

A little documented feature of the WPTouch Pro plugin is the ability to use shortcodes to show specific blocks of content to desktop users and other content to mobile visitors. This is necessary considering WPTouch Pro currently does not resize multimedia if the width and height tags are within a style element. Most video player [...] Related posts:

How do I use the Widget Login Plugin?

Daryl Lozupone — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:40:34 +0000

In this tutorial, we take a look at the Widget Logic plugin from FreakyTrigger. This plugin allows widgets to only be shown on specific pages of your blog. It allows for very complex statements using the WordPress conditional tags. The codex at WordPress.org has a list of all the tags you can use. &nbsp

Creating Your Mobile Website with WPTouch Pro

Daryl Lozupone — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:32:46 +0000

In my last post, So, You Want a Mobile-Friendly Website, I discussed the challenges of creating a website suitable for mobile devices and my plan for creating of mobile version of this site. In this post, I am going to detail how I implemented that plan. Before we do, let’s just review my plan. I am [...] Related posts:

So, You Want a Mobile-Friendly Website?

So, You Want a Mobile-Friendly Website?

Daryl Lozupone — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:15:57 +0000

Recently, a number of my clients have asked about making their WordPress websites mobile device friendly. Therefore, I decided to embark on a quest to make a mobile version of this website in order to learn what was involved, and if it was simple enough for my clients to do by themselves on their sites. [...]