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The popular TinyMCE Advanced plugin has been revamped for WordPress 3.9 as of April 19 2014. In fact, the new plugin will not give you an update notice until it detects that you have upgraded to 3.9, which is great, because it is required. In this video, I’ll take you on a tour of the new features and the quick and dirty setup of the toolbars.
See the new features and caveats in WordPress 3.9, which is due to be released April 16th. It has several significant changes, including to the TinyMCE text editor and how media is handled. There’s also a new widget previewer and support for audio/video playlists. In this video I give you a quick tour of these changes and best practices when using some of them.
Google Analytics will soon be known as Universal Analytics. There are two steps to upgrade. Plus, there are several ways to connect analytics to your website. This is not something you want to put off, as Google will eventually deprecate the old analytics code. I’ll show you a quick way to check your analytics account…
A single hacker took down the HootSuite service in a DoS attack on March 20 2014. That’s the scariest part of the whole story. One hacker disabled a major online service. Here’s what you need to know about the difference in a DoS and a DDoS attack and how to protect your site.
Hackers are using the XML-RPC function in WordPress for DDoS botnet attacks as well as Brute Force attacks. Find out what XML-RPC is, where it’s used on your site, and how to secure your site against this vulnerability. Plus, discover how XML-RPC may be used in the future and what you need to avoid.
A major update is coming to the Better WP Security plugin. If you use this plugin, here’s what you need to know when you update.
The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast had a major update released on March 11. This quick video shows you all of the changes and settings you’ll want to check. They include settings in the Social section for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. And, new Bulk Editors have been added as well. Watch now.
I’ve been talking about bot attacks and security a lot lately, with good reason. And I know that it’s something that you wish you could put on ignore. But it’s just not anymore – not as a site owner, or the owner of any device connected to the Internet. The bar has been significantly raised lately on cyber security.
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