WordPress has a bad reputation for getting hacked. It’s opensource, so anyone can figure out how it works and where it’s weaknesses are. And most new owners don’t take very basic measures to protect themselves because they don’t know how. So here’s an excerpt from my resource Essential WordPress Plugins to help guide would-be victims.
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ASP, Flash, and other Purple Ponies
The Three Minute Accessibility Test
Some time after reading Steve Krug’s fascinating Don’t Make Me Think, which is a fantastic introduction to usability and accessibility that any web monkey worth their salt should read immediately, I began implementing something I like to call my Three Minute Accessibility Test. It’s a fast, simple way of making sure that your page makes [...]
Read More...Hello, World.
It’s not my first post, but it is close to it! Welcome to my new blog-folio. I will be posting useful articles about things related to CSS, front end design, usability, and so on, mainly for the benefit of my friends and colleagues. Hopefully the rest of the Internet will find something of interest here [...]
Read More...14 basic plugins no WordPress blog should be without
These are basic plugins that I can’t imagine installing Wordpress without, plugins which improve performance, secure, or otherwise basically improve Wordpress’s work functionality. I thought I would list them here, because in my searches for top 10 plugins, I have not found a list quite like this. Consider it a basic 14.
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