The Care and Feeding of Websites

This post is half a rant and half a lesson for all to learn — and 100% an exercise in bravery for saying it all. I’ll start out with the rant because I just have to get this off my chest before anyone gets hurt, and then we’ll talk about how you can...

How to Know You’ve Been Hacked

While the only real way to know if your WordPress site has been hacked is to examine the files on the server, I often hear common themes when people contact me to figure out what is going on with their site. I’ve compiled this list so that you can know what the...

HEARTBLEED – What You Need to Know

I don’t normally post things from my newsletter to the blog, but this one was too important to not post… I’m talking about the HEARTBLEED BUG — that vulnerability in secure encryption that allows hackers to steal passwords and other sensitive...

A Sad Tale of Webhosting Caution

A friend of mine went to his website to log in the other day, and all he saw was this: Without so much as an e-mail, his "lifetime plan" at his web hosting company went down in flames, with only the hint that they might be able to find his data if he...

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