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We all want secure sites. A big part of my business is helping folks do that. But, the new SSL ranking factor is NOT something you want to jump into lightly. In fact, you need to seriously consider the bigger picture before you make any changes this drastic to your site. Read on for what you need to know before you do anything.
DDoS, Brute Force, botnet, hacked – these are just a few of the words that have become common place for site owners this year. None of us wanted thoughts of site security to consume our day. We’ve got important things to do! But here we are, in the midst of the highest sustained bot attack in history.
Why is this happening? What can we do about it? The one thing you can’t do is ignore it, whether you’re a site owner or not.
If you own any smart device hooked to the Internet, you’re involved, and affected, and it’s going to take all of us to shut the cyber-attacks down. See how you can be part of the solution.
Social share buttons can be both a performance and security issue. But not this one. The Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin is my top performance pick and has enough options to suit just about every site.
I tested 12 of the most popular social share button plugins and this one was the clear winner.
See Social Share Buttons – Site Performance and Security Killers test results.
In this video, I take you on a tour of all the options and settings. You’ll be amazed at all this lightweight plugin can do.
Earlier in the week I posted that you should get XML-RPC turned off on your site. Sucuri just released confirmation that is one of the new attack strategies of the recent bad bot attack. This is different from the XML-RPC exploit to use your site in a DDoS attack. This one is to use XML-RPC to get your login credentials and do a Brute Force attack. In other words, the bots want to break down the front door to gain entry to your site.
Ever wonder how WordPress performs right out the box? I put a new installation through every major online testing service. Included are notes and full screenshots with summaries, waterfalls, performance scores, and request details. Testing tools include Pingdom, GTMetrix, WebPageTest, and WebSitePulse. Feel free to use it as a baseline to compare your site performance scores.
All content marketers want their posts to go viral. But some social share buttons are major performance and security offenders. And some even track viewers who share your posts, which is a privacy issue. See the eye-opening results of 13-point, head-to-head tests on 12 of the most popular social share button plugins and how the one your using stacks up.
Yesterday, Troy Dean from WP Elevation hosted WP Think Tank 2. It was the second panel discussion about the future of WordPress this year. This time the, panel covered the demands of three distinct users of WordPress, including enterprise level business, small business and entrepreneurs, and new bloggers.
Genesis has released a new 2.1 version. . Some of the settings have been moved to the WordPress Customizer, and one feature has been removed entirely for new installs. Plus, the new version has a few performance enhancements as well. See all of the changes in this quick video.
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