With all the worries about website hacking, are you and your webmaster doing all you can to reduce the risk to your own site?
Here are our 10 top suggestions for basic changes that will make your WordPress website more secure.
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Where have my search engine privacy settings gone in WordPress?
When WordPress upgraded from version 3.4 to 3.5 in December 2012 they imporved quite a lot of things.
However, a few bits including the search engine privacy settings changed. This is the checkbox where you ask search to index . to not index your site. We took a bit of time finding it, so thought others might too. Here’s where you can find this setting now…
Buddypress WordPress plugin to remove profile links
If you use the BuddyPress WordPress plugin you might have noticed that some random links are automatically generated for text in your profile fields.
These links help visitors search for the same keywords in other profiles, but there doesn’t seem to be a setting to switch this off, or to manage the links so that only useful keywords become links.
Here’s a way to remove BuddyPress random links in profile fields
How to manage WordPress Comment Spam
Comment spam can be a real headache for new blog owners, and after a period of time this can grow to several hundred comments a day.
This is no benefit to your website, and indeed can be detrimental to it, and it can take a lot of your time to remove it.
So, what do you do… and why do people bother spamming your site anyway?
Here’s why people spam your site, and what you can do about it
WordPress Maintenance Mode
Is WordPress stuck in maintenance mode after an update? Have you just updated a plugin or WordPress version only to find that you cannot access your website again afterwards? This may be caused by a file that WordPress has left behind. Here’s what you need to do to activate your WordPress site after an update…
How to free up a site that WordPress has left stuck after an upgrade