There are many ways to install a WordPress script on your server or hosting. The easiest way for a beginner is by using Softaculous or other similar software. Luckily, I’ve wrote a detailed tutorial about installing WordPress using Softaculous long time ago. If you use Softaculous (or similar software) and has already changed the ‘admin’ username prior […]
How to Prevent Brute-Force Attack in WordPress
Last week, many security analysts reported a massive brute attack specifically targeting WordPress platform. According to arstechnica.com, the attacks were originated from 90 000 different IPs to brute WordPress login page. One of the concerns of an attack like this is that the attacker is using a relatively weak botnet of home PCs in order to build a […]
How To Limit Login Attempts in WordPress
There are many ways to hack your WordPress site. No one likes to be hacked, it is one of the scariest moment for any bloggers out there. In this quick tutorial, I’m going to share how to limit login attempts to your WordPress site. Before this, I’ve also shown you how to change the default login URL to […]
How To Change Login URL in WordPress
For security reason, some people recommend hiding the login page to prevent someone from brute-forcing. If you never heard about brute-force attack, it is one of the ways to hack a website by attempting to login using list guess passwords. Such attack is usually done with the help of tool and dictionary list. To change the […]
How to Install Commentluv Plugin in WordPress
There are many ways to encourage engagements in your WordPress site. One of the best and proven tips is by installing the commetluv plugin in your website. By installing this plugin, whenever someone leave a comment in your website, the plugin will show the latest post from the commenter’s website. This is great. You got one comment, […]
Conditionally Remove Comments Section in Genesis Framework
Before this, I’ve shown how to disable comments section on post or page. Please note that removing and disabling the comments section are two different things. For example, when you decide not to have a comments section for posts from certain categories or post formats, completely remove the comments section is the best choice so every time […]
WordPress 101: Change Default Category in WordPress
By default, WordPress comes with Tag and Category taxonomies. This is great to manage all of your articles. For more information about WordPress taxonomy, I highly encourage you to read over WordPress Codex – Taxonomies. Every WordPress installation comes with Uncategorized category. Any new post that you do not assign to any category will also be assign to this default category. Previously […]
WordPress 101: Scheduling Upcoming Post
WordPress is flexible enough as it allows you to schedule a post to a later date. In this article of WordPress101 series, I’m going to show you how to schedule a post to any date. Before this, I also have shown you how to create a password protected post in WordPress, make sure you read that if you […]