Zenphoto – doing an update the right way, manually ..

After experimenting with various photo blog kind of interfaces (including the use of Gallery2 and other plugins that work along with WordPress), I finally found something that I liked – namely, Zenphoto, that I have started to use to build a photo site called Tourist Photos (photos from different tourist locations) (primarily to find an [...]

WordPress security tips (part 9) – Plugins to secure your blog

In continuation of an earlier series of posts towards making your WordPress installation more secure, here are some more plugins and steps to increase the security of your WordPress installation. An important plugin that can help in ensuring that you are able to detect the security leaks in your WordPress installation is called “WordPress scanner”.

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Upgrade your WordPress blog frequently to keep it more secure

There are a large number of people who want to start blogging, don’t like using a shared platform such as Blogger, and install a WordPress blog on a shared hosting service. And once installed, they start adding new content, generating more user visits. However, a huge percentage of these people do not upgrade to the [...]

WordPress Plugins: Use a plugin to update your plugins

If you have a blog on WordPress (or multiple such blogs), there are a lot of extensions you can make for your blog. You get a cool theme, and then start looking for plugins that give your blog additional features, whether these be administration, or allowing users to tag or search, or the plugin shows [...]