January 2nd, 2012

Maintaining a WordPress blog is one of the best ways to connect with other people, whether you use it to communicate with people who have similar hobbies or you use it as a way to attract people to your business. However, hosting a blog on your website does present some special security issues you need to be aware of if you want to keep your site and your readers safe. Follow these tips to keep your blog safe from online harm.

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December 20th, 2010

WordPress, though amazing, is not prone to hacking attempts… Here’s a few steps you can take in securing your blog.

Use a secure password and change it often

I bet your password is your last name and some characters? Your dogs name? Your favorite flower? If your password is even remotely as easy to guess as my examples then you should consider using a different password. Ideally it will be at least 8 characters long and include letters and numbers, both lower case and upper case.

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November 30th, 2010

WordPress has just released a mandatory security update – version 3.0.2. It is recommended that you update your WordPress installation as soon as possible as it contains a fix where a malicious Author-level user could gain further access to the site. All Blog Consulting customers utilizing our Blog Maintenance plans have already been upgraded.

To see the list of other bug fixes in this release, please click here.