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WGHubris on July 1st, 2009

To secure your WordPress blog, many experts will recommend that you create a new WordPress administrator account and delete the default WordPress admin account.  The idea is that since every WordPress installation comes with an admin user, you’ve given away half of the battle for security.  Automated hacker bots can come at your WordPress blog [...]

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WGHubris on June 5th, 2009

A lot of people use WordPress to build and run their blogs. A lot of people use Photoshop to mock-up an layout of their web site design and then use that layout to create the actual website layout, usually via some sort of grid. There are a growing number of WordPress Theme frameworks than can [...]

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WGHubris on January 14th, 2009

For many years now, I have just followed the conventional wisdom when it comes to maximizing things like pings, trackbacks, feeds and WordPress.  But, lately, I’ve been looking into it a little bit more, and I have come to find out, that 99% of what is out there isn’t conventional wisdom, its slightly re-written copies [...]

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WGHubris on June 24th, 2008

Here is a good lesson for business owners and management.  Do not pretend that you don’t know what is going on in the business world.  It only makes you look like a fool. There was an episode of the West Wing in which the staff insist the President not use his opponent’s name because it [...]

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