How many themes do you really need for your WordPress site?

However you got there, it’s time to assess how many themes you have and how many you really need. It may seem as a small detail but one that can have consequences for the safety of your site. How many themes do you have sitting around on your WordPress site and how many do you really need? WordPress themes are how you control the basic visual effect on how your site works. To access them you go to the control panel -> appearance -> themes. There you will find at least one theme but possibly many. There are many reasons for having multiple themes. As part of the WordPress installation multiple official WordPress themes are installed. You may have extra themes installed from changes to

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WordPress Security – why “Admin” is a bad thing

If you are running WordPress there may be a common setting that is jeopardizing the security of your site. Recently, there was an organized botnet attack on WordPress sites. What that means is that a software program with millions of minions was scanning the internet for WordPress sites, especially ones that have an “admin”  log in user name. It makes sense if you think about it. A hacker trying to get into your site needs two things; the user name and the password. By having an “admin” account you just handed them half of the equation. The hacker then hides behind spoofed IP addresses and tries lots of different passwords until they find the right one. The scary thing is, depending on your host or

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Google believes in the afterlife, do you?

What happens to your digital property if you die? Chances are if you are reading this, you have an online presence. Emails, chats, social media, and cloud storage are integrated parts of modern living. Some of these are bound to be very precious. Mementos that you want to preserve for your family or that your family would want should the worst happen to you.  Some can be worth money, if they are attached to a popular person or small business. Others can even be information that you don’t want to share. Before Roger Ebert passed away, he left instructions on how to manage his digital estate with his wife, Chaz. Not only was she able to access his accounts, but was also able to transform

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“Why You Should Be Paying More Than $50 For Ebook Formatting & Conversion”

Your manuscript is finally done and you are now ready to convert it to an eBook.  You want to have a professional looking eBook that reflects all your hard work. Excitedly you start shopping around to find someone to help convert your baby. As you try to narrow down the options of who you want to trust your manuscript to, you notice that there seems to be two levels of pricing. The more expensive level will need to see a sample of your work or will say something along the lines of “I charge _ per page”. Then there are the ones almost yelling at you that they can do it quickly and much cheaper, a flat 50 bucks to create your eBook no matter

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Beware Friends and Enemies Alike – Email Phishing

In the ongoing battle over your computer, life would be a lot easier for the bad guys if you would just give them permission to use your computer/name/resources. Since you are smart enough to not do that, the bad guys will try and trick you into giving permission. Usually by having you voluntary click on something that will download malicious code or on a link that will take you to a site that looks exactly like your banking/credit card/other site. This is called phishing for emails or spoofing for the fake sites. And it just got worse. Most malware is coded to automatically try and replicate itself and continue to look for ways to infect other machines. Such as emailing a link to all the

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So Long XP

Are you one of the 38.31 % percent of users who still has Windows XP as an operating system? If so you have a big decision to make. Microsoft has announced that it will stop support the still very popular operating system on April 8, 2014. Office 2003 will also loose support at the same time. This means there will be no new security patches or updates. You will not be able to get official support from the folks at Microsoft. If this is you, then you should look at your options now while there is still time. References http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2013/04/08/365-days-remaining-until-xp-end-of-support-the-countdown-begins.aspx http://www.netmarketshare.com/

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