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5 Ways To Tell If Your Website Has Been Hacked
When I was working for a university in Illinois it wasn’t uncommon for me to get phone calls along the lines of “the xxx department website is playing foreign music.” or “there’s religious propaganda...
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Remove the Default style.css in WordPress with Genesis
Genesis (affiliate link) is a great framework for theming WordPress (I use it on almost every site I build) but it does make some decisions I don’t agree with. For example, it loads the style.css of...
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Ninjas To Invade WordCamp Chicago
Well it is only one ninja, and a rookie, but still a ninja. I will be attending my first WordCamp in Chicago on behalf of Bit51. I am very grateful to become a part of the Bit51 elite and look forward...
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Goodbye Google Reader… Hello Fever
As most of you already know Google Reader, Google’s RSS aggregation service that made it easy to follow blogs and other sites you’re really interested in, is shutting down on Monday. When that happens...
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Live Blog: WordCamp Chicago 2013 Day 1
Follow me here for all things Word Camp in the Windy City. The post Live Blog: WordCamp Chicago 2013 Day 1 appeared first on Bit51.
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Live Blog: WordCamp Chicago Day 2
Welcome back to day two of WordCamp Chicago. I will be live blogging all day all the great tips and hints for all things WordPress. The post Live Blog: WordCamp Chicago Day 2 appeared first on Bit51.
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But I Thought there Were No Core Bugs in WordPress?
There have been a lot of posts lately talking about how secure WordPress core is and how so few vulnerabilities have been reported over the last few years. WPEngine had one that became very popular a...
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WordCamp Chicago Recap
If I was to describe WordCamp Chicago in one word I do believe that word would be mind-blowing. I am so glad I had the opportunity to represent Bit51 and to run the live blog. There was so much great...
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3 Tips For Protecting Your Social Media
I talk a lot about website security. While securing your website is obviously a passion of mine there is another part of your business and your brand that I haven’t been paying enough attention to....
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Mollom: Now on WordPress
For years there has been a constant in the world of spam protection: WordPress has Akismet and Drupal has Mollom. Not anymore. There’s a new Mollom plugin in the WordPress repository today for Acquia’s...
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3 Reasons Bit51 Switched to Disqus
After an awful lot of debate and a whole lot of trial and error over the last few months I finally decided to migrate comments on this site from the native WordPress commenting system to Disqus....
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Share Center Pro 2.4.6
So Facebook changed the way they implement the like button… back in November… Admittedly I completely missed this change until the like button stopped working in Share Center Pro this week. Version...
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Add Social Media Icons To Your Site Without Images
What if I told you there is a way to add social media icons to your website that doesn’t require image files, scales for any screen size or pixel density and is even easier to use than images? The...
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Better WP Security 3.5.4
The Better WP Security has been updated to version 3.5.4 which addresses everything from bug fixes, to added languages, to security improvements and more. There are 20 changes in total (the average...
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Better WP Security 4 Ready For Testing and More Updates
As you might have noticed my writing here on Bit51 has been a little slow these last few weeks. This isn’t due to lack of interest, lack of ideas or any of the other issues that plague most bloggers....
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Better WP Security 3.5.5
A quick update today to push some minor fixes and an updated Turkish translation. This should fix the issue where manual backups were failing with a PHP error. View the Changelog Download Better WP...
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WordCamp San Francisco… That’s a Wrap
Last weekend I had the opportunity to travel to San Francisco for my third WordCamp of 2013, WordCamp San Francisco. For those of you who are unfamiliar WordCamps are regional WordPress conferences...
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Virtual Machines… The Holy Grail of Local Web Development
I’ve been developing websites for quite a long time, since the 90s to be exact, and over that time the way I work on a project has changed pretty dramatically. Like so many other developers I started...
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Better Google Tasks 5.0.3
I switched focus for a few days last week to breathe new life into an old project. Better Google Tasks is a Google Chrome extension that allows you full access to all your tasks right from the taskbar...
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What Chili’s Is Doing Right
There is a little restaurant chain called Chili’s. maybe you have heard about it. They have some really great fajitas and killer margaritas. Also when I check in on FourSquare I get free chips and...
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