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- Ken Dawes, The Web Mechanic
Here are some great tips from Ken Dawes’ presentation “How to Improve Wordpress Security“. Ken was a guest speaker in Rebecca Holman’s class More WordPress-Tweaks, Tricks and Marketing Ideas.
Check out Ken’s website for more about his service offerings.
- Delete user “admin” – create a new admin account first
- change first and last name and nickname
- Choose a secure password – don’t use the word “password”
- Login LockDown plugin
- Check your Theme for the tinthumb update
- AntiVirus plugin
- WordPress Firewall 2 plugin – you’ll have to add your own ip address to edit your site
- Block Bad Queries (BBQ) plugin
- Update Unique Keys plugin – logout and log back in again
- Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin – alternative for Akismet
- BulletProof Security plugin
Other non security
- permalinks -custom /%post_id%/%postname%/
- use a 404 redirect plugin if you already had a lot of links
- Core Tweaks WordPress Setup – cleanup first installations (sitemap etc.)
- WP-DBManager plugin – alternative to WP-DB-Backup
- Filezilla - ftp (file transfer protocol) manager – to backup all your media files such as images and pdf’s
Another Security Plugin that is widely used:
- WP Security Scan plugin – set and forget
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In HTML a link tag is called an “anchor” tag. That’s why it start with <a. A is for Anchor.  If you want your link to go to a spot inside a page/post, you put an id in the page/post and then link using the # sign.
Here are the steps:
- Add the id within quotes
<h2 id=”name-can-be-anything-without-spaces”> - Add the link using the # sign
<a href=”#name-can-be-anything-without-spaces”>
This video demonstrates this along with how to add a page that links to an anchor with an id.
http://youtu.be/OtrT0AsTwfo
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The Lifelong Learning Center is offering a class on how to customize your Wordpress Theme.
Nov 7-Nov 30, 2011 – Mondays & Wednesdays 1-4pm – Register Online
Instructor, Nora’s, write-up about the class
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“Principles of CSS”
Discussion of the following CSS principles:
- Content and formatting are separate functions – and separate code. Ideally, they are in separate files.
- Formatting is uniform throughout the site through the use of external style sheets (files.)
- There are two types of CSS structure.
F11-030: WordPress-Web Development for the Right Side of Your Brain
This class focuses on using the free open-source software called WordPress. WordPress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional website. The user interface is designed let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs. Learn set up, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required but you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.
Fridays, Sept 16 – Oct 28 (no class Sept 30)
9am – noon
$76 (early bird $71)
| taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765 |
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I just published my first Wordpress Plugin, WP ChatBlazer. It embeds a cool Chatblazer chat application on Wordpress website.
Look for it in the Wordpress Plugin Directory
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If you’re using Arras Theme and received this error message after upgrading to WP 3.2
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Arras_Widget_Tag_Cloud::WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud() in ..../wp-content/themes/arras/library/widgets.php on line 355There is a bug fix at
http://www.arrastheme.com/forums/post28286.html#p28286
Simple fix:
- Download Arras v 1.5.1
- Install it on your site
Note:Â You will need FTP access to do this.
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A a common theme bug is that a duplicate Home page appears when your using a Static Page as your Home page.
To remove the duplicate home page.
- Goto the Dashboard
- Appearance -> Editor
- Select Header from the Template list
- find wp_list_pages(‘….stuff here…’)
- just before it should be a line with something like<li><a href=”….. stuff here…..Home</li>
- Delete that line
- Update File
Note: Â Theme updates will overwrite these changes, repeat this change after any theme update.
Share on FacebookInstructions for adding a Youtube video to your website.
- Install and Activate the JetPack plugin
- Goto  the Youtube video
- Copy the URL
- Edit your Page/Post
- Paste the URL into your Page/Post on a line all by itself
- Publish or update the Page/Post
If you want to customize the video’s size and options follow the instructions for embedding using shortcodes here on:
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M11-014: WordPress-Web Development for the Right Side of Your Brain
This class focuses on using the free open-source software called WordPress. WordPress makes it easy to create and deploy your own professional website. The user interface is designed let you present your business or ideas in an attractive format to the public without having to know complex programs. Learn set up, common uses, how to add plugins and design themes and search engine optimization as well as integration with common free social networking tools like Youtube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. No prior knowledge of HTML, web publishing or ownership of an existing website required but you should be familiar with web browsers such as Internet Explorer and programs to format text such as Word.
Mondays, July 11 – Aug 15
9am – noon
$76 (early bird $71)
| taught throughThe Lifelong Learning Center 310 South Curtis Street Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 549-8765 |
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