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WordPress Security – An Infographic on common Malware and Attacks

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


Coaching, Mentoring & Guidance

Coaching, mentoring, guidance

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


Practice? We talkin’ ’bout practice?

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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


Seeking Creative Renewal

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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


Managed WordPress plugin updates to protect your site.

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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

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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




Defeat the WordPress BotNet with this simple solution, use a pass-phrase.

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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


Make Your Own Writing Rules

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






2-25 Service Instability

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