Comments on: 6 Top Tips To Hack-Proof Your WordPress Site

By: Somone Bull

Somone Bull — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:54:47 +0000

Good article. I especially like the bit, “If your site has been hacked, the first and foremost step would require you to switch off the FTP access. …Once you have switched off the FTP access, you should then instantly modify your log in details and carry an effective scanning of your personal computer in order to ensure the protection of your data.”

Many people don’t think about what to do if their site is hacked until after it happens.

By: Exeter Web Host

Exeter Web Host — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:38:35 +0000

Thanks for the article, was interesting reading the comments as well.

I wrote an article similar to this, but offering tips of website hosting instead. Have a read if you want, it’s at http://exeter-web-hosting.co.uk/blog/2010/07/make-your-website-hacker-proof/ . Let me know what you think.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:33:06 +0000

Thank you so much for the offer. Well, I’m so used to editing codes in the traditional way, you know, editing header.php, index.php/home.php, footer.php, and I get lost when I can’t find those in the Thesis’. It only gives me 3 css files and a custom functions php, and I have no idea where to cut into. I know I can put what I want into the Site/Design/Page Options, but everything seems already preset and I can’t do much other than fill in the blanks. And I get pissed when I have to go option by option to find and test what I want.

By: Somone Bull

Somone Bull — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:19:39 +0000

Sounds good. I’ll look into it. Any particular tutorials that you are interested in?

By: Somone Bull

Somone Bull — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:18:23 +0000

Sounds like a good alternative. It depends what message you want to give to your ‘hacker’ visitor.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:16:57 +0000

I had this problem a year ago, and I tried everything to reduce the cpu usage, incl. optimizing MySQL, compressing javascript files, using wp supercache and gzip etc you name it, I’ve tried it all, however, my blogs and web hosting account still got suspended by the shared hosting company, namely Bluehost.

My solution: I switched to a VPS, and I’m loving it.

However, I recently learned about CDN. You might wanna try it out too, it helps a lot! Yeah, a whole lot! There’s this easy-to-use plugin, Free CDN, just search, install and activate it, and you’re done. This wonderful creation helps reduce server load and bandwidth by rewriting your statis files and have ‘em served from Coral servers instead of your own. I’m not the owner of the plugin, nor an affiliate, I’m simply a happy user of the plugin.

I came to your blog while googling for thesis theme tutorials, and your blog deserves a constant visit. Keep up the good work, and please post more thesis theme tutorials, I’m sick and tired of tweaking the theme, still getting nowhere. =p Take care, mate, cheers