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WordPress Essentials – A WordPress Tutorial & Resource Site

Wednesday, 29 January 2020 by p3pp3r0n1

When you’re starting out building a website or starting up an E-Commerce business, it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start. Many people want to build there own website but lack the knowhow to get started. To help solve this I’ve started building WordPress Essentials. Using working examples I’ve begun creating step by step tutorials

  • Published in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: woocommerce, wordpress, wordpressessentials, wplister
Connection is Secure

How to add a free Cloudflare SSL certificate to your WordPress website

Tuesday, 27 August 2019 by p3pp3r0n1

This is a quick tutorial on how to setup your WordPress site to get the benefits of that little padlock you see in your browser address bar. Without this your customers (as well as Google) will have less confidence in the security of your website. For this example I’ll be using vinyldirectory.co.uk as an example

  • Published in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: google, https, seo

WordPress Tip #6 – Build a Wall

Saturday, 10 November 2018 by Matthew Greasley

There’s bad people out there, people who will try and takeover your site. You need something to protect you, to keep potential threats at bay. That’s where Wordfence steps in… Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan Wordfence features a firewall and malware scanner to protect your WordPresssite . Wordfence uses with the newest firewall

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: firewall, security, wordfence

WordPress Tip #5 – Prevent Comment Spam

Friday, 09 November 2018 by p3pp3r0n1

Discussion Settings WordPress is now used for much more than a blog. Themes are setup to utilise the post functionality in many ways. Bots exist which will bombard your site with spam links. You can blog these by default by unchecking the following: Settings > Discussion > Allow people to post comments on new articles

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: akismet, spam

WordPress Tip #4 – Backup Your Site!

Thursday, 08 November 2018 by Matthew Greasley

It’s important to backup your site. You may find that something goes drastically wrong with your site and you need to restore your site. You may find there’s security issues, you may have been hacked. There’s many reasons why you may need to rollback your site. Install a backup plugin such as UpdraftPlus (other plugins are

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: backup, updraftplus

WordPress Tip #3 – Cookie Banner

Wednesday, 07 November 2018 by Matthew Greasley

If you own a website in the EU, or if your website is aimed at citizens in the EU, you need to compile with the law. If not you may risk enforcement action, and potentially fines. So what is a cookie? No it’s not some tasty morsel containing chocolate chips, these are small data files

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: cookies, EU, GDPR, privacy

WordPress Tip #2 – Don’t Publish Posts As Admin

Thursday, 01 November 2018 by Matthew Greasley

You username is public, it is part of your posts and pages. Making your admin data known helps bots find you, and can lead to increased brute force attempts on your site. If you publish your admin username everywhere it makes it easier for your site to be hacked. It makes sense to have multiple

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: security, username, wordpress tips

WordPress Tip #1 – Change Your Admin Username

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 by Matthew Greasley

If your admin username is ‘admin’, change it. Even better, don’t have ‘admin’ as your admin name from the start. Straightaway this will add a layer of security to your site. Bots and scripts will then have to discover your username before they begin to guess your password. Brute force attempts at accessing your site

  • Published in Wordpress Tips
Tagged under: admin, backup, brute force, updraftplus, username, wordpress tips

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