A few weeks ago, we published a very detailed "How to Start a Blog" guide that went through every step in the process. We really enjoyed it, but got some feedback that it was a little overwhelming for you new WordPress bloggers. For those of you who want to start a blog, but don't know how, there is too much information in there. Looking back, we were using our knowledge of 11 years in the blogging space to create the guide. Instead, we need to come at this from an overview. We're always here …
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WordPress Guide – How to Add Plugins to Your Blog
If you're a WordPress blog owner, then you've probably encountered plugins. They are little things that can provide great functionality for anything WordPress related. I have a number of plugins being used on this blog. When I set up blogs for new bloggers, I make sure to always include some go-to plugins to give them certain functionality. The great part about WordPress is the sheer number of plugins you can choose from. It's both a blessing and a curse. While you might be able to find one …
WordPress Guide – How to Add a New User to Your Blog
Welcome to our new WordPress Guide series we have been planning for some time. It's finally coming off the ground. Since we offer WordPress maintenance and support services, we get a lot of questions about how to do certain things. When we are adding a new client to our monthly WordPress blog management service, we typically here the same question over and over again. How do I add you as a user to my blog? That's a very good and legitimate question. For that reason, we have created a …
How to Reduce Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC
Hey fellow bloggers and WordPress lovers. I'm here with some bad news today, but hopefully we can get through it together. Over the past few weeks, but specifically over the last couple of days, I've noticed a ton of hits toward many of my clients' XMLRPC.php files. After looking it over and confirming my findings on the Sucuri blog, I realized there is an uptick in brute force attacks going on. This one is not good since they are using the ever vulnerable xmlrpc.php file to orchestrate …
Upgrade to WordPress 4.3.1 – Security Update
Hello everyone! I hope you're having a good and productive week. We are busy here at iMark Interactive making sure out clients' sites are updated to the latest version of WordPress (release notes). Yesterday, WordPress released a security update to version 4.3. Version 4.3.1 is a security update that handles two cross-scripting vulnerabilities and one user privilege escalation. This is a recommended update for everyone! According to the WordPress.org blog, here are the potential issues …