How to Rollback to a Previous WordPress Plugin Version

I’ve had to do this a few times. I provide website maintenance for quite a few of my web design clients, and I always keep their WordPress websites up to date (see my previous blog post on this). Most of the time, everything goes off without a hitch, but sometimes, a plugin won’t work properly…

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Setting up Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress

Most themes in WordPress allow you to control what’s on the navigation menu bar.   To set up your navigation menu, you’ll need to know how to log in to your WordPress admin area.  Once logged in, go to Appearance –> Menus.

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My Preferred WordPress Plugins

These days, most of my website projects are developed with WordPress.  I use these plugins in many of my WordPress websites. They are all free of charge. ThreeWP Activity Monitor – Tracks all user activity including login attempts.  If someone atttempts and fails to log in to your site, you can see what password they tried.…

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Activity Monitor

If you have a WordPress site, you may want to install the free Activity Monitor Plugin to track your users activity.  This plugin tracks logins, page/post creations, page/post edits, page/post removals, etc.  Since installing it on my site, I’ve seen a few attempted hacks with the admin username.

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Keeping Your WordPress Site Safe

WordPress is the most popular CMS around, so it’s a big target for hackers.  Be creative with naming your passwords.  You can check out the 25 Worst Passwords in 2011.  If your password is on this list, you might want to change it. Another precaution to take would be to sign up for a Sucuri…

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What’s up with David Beckham’s underwear ad?

Yesterday morning, I just happened to finish my yoga workout and pressed the stop button on our VCR when I heard a reporter talking about David Beckham’s underwear ad. Well, fortunately my wife wasn’t in the room when I saw this, otherwise, we might not have gotten to the office in time. I know you may…

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