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9 Important Steps On Securing Your WordPress Blog

Whether you’re starting an online business or setting up a personal blog, there are several security priorities you better look at if you want to reduce the risk of getting website robbed online. Below you’ll find 9 steps of what I consider to be the most important security actions to take if running WordPress.
If you’re all new to WordPress, this …

5 Steps To Survive When Starting An Online Business

There’s only one foolproof way to make sure your online business doesn’t fail, and that is to make sure your product sells like hot chocolate! Here’s 5 steps to help your online business career on your way:
Step 1. Upfront researching:
Before getting started you should do some research to get a feel of what’s popular in today’s online market. You probably …

Update: WordPress 2.8.4 Security Release

New WordPress 2.8.4 security release. A new vulnerability was discovered yesterday by the WordPress team. As usual, like any other security release, its highly recommended that you upgrade your older WordPress version.
From the WordPress Team this morning:

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to …

Update: WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release

A new WordPress 2.8.3 security update! It’s not that long ago since we had a security path released, but here it is, although it came a little surprising to me.
As for what this security path is all about, this is what the WordPress Team had to say:
Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  …

2 Easy Ways To Backup Your WordPress Database

When wanting to backup, you got to choose the one that fits your current setup.
1. Manually backup through phpMyAdmin

1. Login to your phpMyAdmin and select the database where you got WordPress installed.
2. Click the Export button on your top menu.
3. Export “Select All” type should be “SQL”.
4. Hit “Save as file” to save this backup as a file
4. Choose compression …