wordpress security

WordPress Sites Under Brute Force Attack

April 15, 2013

WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging platform, and right now it’s under brute force attack via a large botnet. In a recent post Matt Mullenweg posted about the recent attack on WordPress sites. This is a botnet attack, and is performing brute force attack using default WordPress login (admin). Let me first explain what botnet is, and how it works. What is Botnet attack: Here are few terms you should know: Bot ...

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8 Essential Settings after Installing WordPress

April 10, 2013

When I started my Blogging journey, I started with BlogSpot but later on I moved to WordPress. I have been using it for almost 4 years and so far it’s the best platform for Blogging that I can think of. WordPress is scalable and there are thousands of tutorials for WordPress that is available, which will help you in getting started with WordPress. You can also read WordPress complete guide, which will help you to ...

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How to Put Website Malware Review Request Via Google Webmaster Tool

March 25, 2013

Website hacking is nothing new, and being a blogger it doesn’t matter how much hacking preventive measures we take, hackers will always find a way to gain access to your Website. Specially, when you are using WordPress with too many plugins, this makes it easier for hackers to find a loophole on your website. Here at ShoutMeLoud, I keep talking about various methods to make our website hack-proof, but at the same time, there is ...

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How to Automate WordPress Database Backup

January 30, 2013

When ever I talk about WordPress security, I always mentioned how important it is to take timely backup of your blog. There are many tools like ManageWP, Vaultpress, which let you take complete backup of your WordPress blog, but in this case we are only looking at taking WordPress database backup. There are many plugins like Wp Db-backup, Wp Db-manager, which will quickly let you take backup of WordPress blog database. Out of all, I ...

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WordFence Security : MultiPurpose Security Plugin for WordPress

January 24, 2013

WordPress is one fantastic piece of blogging platform, and one of it’s beauty is: We hold the responsibility to keep our blog fast, safe, secure and make changes according to our mood. It’s like a home for a blogger, and how can’t we add some security measures to ensure nothing goes wrong on our blog. Specially, when you are running a multi-author WordPress blog, your role to ensure security of your blog increases. Today, I ...

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Smartest Way to Secure WordPress Login using Login Dongle Plugin

December 31, 2012

As It is very difficult to get a comprehensive and easy to understand answer to the question, that How do I secure my WordPress site? since we all know that no doubt that WordPress is decidedly one of the biggest blogging platforms in the world today. Even though it is not a free platform, the professional manner of this platform is what makes it more popular. And that is the reason why a lot of online business entrepreneurs are ...

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What is Managed WordPress Hosting

September 18, 2012

Here at ShoutMeLoud, I often talk about Webhosting as this is the first thing which you need in order to create a new WordPress Blog. When it comes to hosting, we have various options in terms of Hosting packages and companies. Most common once are Shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated Hosting and so on. Now, one thing which is common about these hosting companies, they will let you host any type of Website. Be it WordPress, Joomla, ...

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Secure & Super Charge WordPress Blog : Complete How To Guide

August 1, 2012

Now a days internet is growing very fast and blogging become really popular among youngsters. WordPress is world’s most popular blogging platform. Let’s come to the point. Today we will introduce you to some plugins and tools which will Secure and Super charge your blog. Website which have nice page load speed are popular among their users. First of all analyse the speed of your blog without any changes . These are some of the best ...

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