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The 5 Steps I Took to Recover My WordPress Blog from a Hack

• April 24, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 9 Comments

My blog, Leaving Work Behind, was hacked in April. It's something you read about often enough but never really expect to happen to you until it's too late. To be honest I didn't see myself as a prime candidate -- I've written about WordPress security often enough to have plenty of preventative measures in place. However, those measures were clearly not comprehensive enough. Getting hacked is something I do not want to go through again. There are so many reasons…

WordPress Pluggable Functions

• April 23, 2013
• Remi
• 3 Comments

Have you ever heard of WordPress Pluggable Functions? If not, then this article should draw your attention. In two words pluggable functions are WordPress core functions that you can override. All these functions are located into one single file: "wp-includes/pluggable.php". Pluggable functions were introduced in WordPress 1.5.1, but in the most recent versions of WordPress this method isn't used anymore. Recent functions now use filters on their output. But you can still override pluggable functions, and this is what I…

How to Secure Your WordPress Site in 5 Simple Steps

• April 22, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 6 Comments

WordPress security is a hot topic around the blogosphere right now. The recent botnet attacks on a huge number of WordPress sites has some people scrambling to recover their precious data and others acting quickly to put preventative security measures in place. Then there are those who thought ahead and took action before it was needed. The chances are that they experienced no issues whatsoever because they made themselves a hard target. The fact is this: while there is no…

Getting Creative, Responsive & “Trimming The Fat” At WPExplorer

• April 18, 2013
• AJ Clarke | WPExplorer
• 4 Comments

As you may know at WPExplorer we've gained quite a bit of popularity from the Free WordPress themes we offer. We have loads of free themes....so many, that it's been hard to keep up with them. But have no fear, we've finally gotten around to it and we're giving our free WordPress themes a makeover! Theme Updates & Trimming The Fat First of all we will be discontinuing some of our less popular free themes. We're sad to have to…

5 Things You Must Avoid Doing in WordPress

• April 15, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 28 Comments

The WordPress backend can be dangerous ground to tread upon as a beginner. Anything that offers such power must also apportion responsibility to the user, which is where some people can go wrong when getting started. Without wanting to frighten you too much, there are certain things you can do in WordPress that will just plain break it. On a less worrying (but also important) note, there are other things you can do that I would certainly advise against --…

Create and Publish Books with WordPress

• April 12, 2013
• Pooria Asteraky
• 3 Comments

If you are looking  for a simple and straightforward tool to create, edit and publish your books don't look further, use PressBooks and enjoy creating your book using the beloved  WordPress. PressBooks gives you all the essential tools for creating  e-books and even printed books. It lets you export your books in all major data-formats so your books can easily go on any e-book format for Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, Kobo and others. You can export your book in PDF for…

What To Expect From WordPress 3.6

• April 10, 2013
• Kyla
• 5 Comments

It's that time again. The new WordPress 3.6 beta is out and ready for testing. What's new you ask? All kinds of fun features, so let's dive in! I'm going to give you a peak into some of the new WordPress 3.6 features, but to see them all you'll just have to install the beta yourself (or wait for the official release). Post Formats WordPress 3.6 features a whole new UI that is easy to use and understand, and includes…