Text: WordPress Security 58,701,915 WordPress sites in the wild. Due to popularity WordPress presents a large target. Two primary types of malware attacks aimed at WordPress. Injections and Backdoors. Injections Your website code is injected with advertisements or links to another site. Typically adult or pharmacy sites. This code is usually hidden from normal display and… Read It
We have implemented additional measures to mitigate the ongoing botnet brute force attack. While we feel we have a handle on the security side of things, the large volume of traffic was adding load to the servers and slowing down the overall user experience We tightened down rules to drop these requests at the network edge… Read It
Abraham Lincoln MAY have said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” While the quote above may not be true, the lessons are. Whether you’re starting a business, creating content, or working for the man every night and day, repeatedly practicing is one… Read It
Malcolm Gladwell says you need 10,000 hours of practice before mastery can be achieved. Allen Iverson may be, pound for pound and inch for inch, a top 5 NBA all-time great. One of them believed in practice. The other didn’t. Who would you say is more successful? While Iverson may have earned more during his… Read It
Todd Henry, author of Accidental Creative, speaks often to the need for those in the creative industry to recharge their ideas and personal energy long before they’ve worn out. From afternoons spent researching to mornings spent reading, being talented doesn’t matter much if most of your time is spent recovering from working too hard. The… Read It
Recent announcements of a major security vulnerability found in 2 popular WordPress caching plugins has everyone (except you) running scared. Page.ly has already secured your site. One of the many benefits we provide to all our WordPress Hosting customers is our automatic plugin updates. This system keeps every plugin up to date without any intervention needed on your part. Since 2009… Read It
SEO for writers sounds like some tacked on, unimportant obligation necessary for online writing, but it’s not. Similarly as to how proper formatting, page design, and subject matter can make writings more attractive to people, a few, simple tips can help make your writing more attractive to search engines without compromising the integrity of your… Read It
Our friend Brad Touesnard just dropped a pro version of his plugin WP Migrate DB. Bear witness to your life getting easier. They are also offering a sweet deal to get started: Get 20% off with coupon code TWITLAUNCH.
We manage WordPress which as we all know requires a login to use. We also provide a standalone interface to manage your Pagely Hosting Account which has its own account management system. Add to that a typical Pagely customer may have multiple WordPress sites, each with their own Administrator login and user. So here you are left… Read It
You have all likely heard about the recent rise in brute force attacks against WordPress, if you have not: Sucuri has been chronicling it for you. Here at Pagely we have the the best in class enterprise security appliances protecting our network, additional 2nd level mechanisms in place to throttle and block brute force attacks against… Read It
There are few professions with more rules — written, unwritten, said or unsaid — than writing. Seemingly every author, novelist, screenwriter or copywrite has their own set of writing rules and their own justifications when breaking them. From Elmore Leonard to Neil Gaiman and Stephen King to Steven Pressfield, plenty of published successful writers have… Read It
Self editing is hard. Try as we might not to, we all get caught up in our own style and writing patterns. Similar to how loving something can cause us to overlook flaws, editing your own writing is not something to brush off.
This is a partial list of WordPress theme and plugin URLS that bots are scanning for timthumb exploits. If you use any of these, make sure you have upgraded the theme, or at the very least upgraded the timthumb script within. Or said another way, these themes used timthumb at some point and the bots… Read It
Here at Pagely, we have been working with WordPress for a very long time, since v1.2 to be precise. Through all that time we have been mostly satisfied with WordPress and the capabilities it brings to web publishing. A solution without a problem WordPress is an amazing piece of software, however we have always felt like it… Read It
Users come in all types, from the savvy veteren to the first timer. We want to make it easy for all our customers to get the most out of WordPress and our WordPress hosting service. We have made 17, high quality HD videos available to all our customers to learn the basics of WordPress. To… Read It
2-25 Service degradation Firehost began a scheduled maintenance window on 2-24 at 10:30PM CST. At approximately 4:30AM CST our provider Firehost completed the scheduled network maintenance window. During this window there was intermittent connectivity and some services were up and down. We are told this intermittent connectivity caused one of our storage devices to misbehave. At 5:53AM CST The service was restarted by… Read It
