Four quick steps to make your WordPress site more secure

I got this question in my email box last week:

Hi Wendy,

I have a question about the Atahualpa theme and spam. I just saw a google alert for my blog, and there was a mysterious reference to, uh, I don’t want to get caught in your spam filter, but let’s just say there [...]

Upcoming classes: Backups, Upgrades, & Web Colors

A quick roundup of upcoming stuff:

Tomorrow (Thursday, June 10), I’m Cairene MacDonald’s guest for a special Bite the Candy workshop on backups and upgrades. So if you’ve been putting off backing up your hard drive, or upgrading your WordPress plugins, or you want support with other backup-and-upgrade-related issues, join us for a dose [...]

Backups and Upgrades: The Greatest Hits Collection

The smart and wonderful Cairene MacDonald from Third Hand Works has invited me to be a special guest teleclass leader for her excellent Bite the Candy series of workshops this Thursday, June 10, on the subject of Backups and Upgrades Without Tears.

Side note: “Without tears” is pretty much my preferred way to do [...]

How to upgrade WordPress

Did you notice a pink bar at the top of your WordPress dashboard this week?

Complete with a command to “Please update now.”? The “please” softens it a bit, but it’s still a command.

This is WordPress’s way of helpfully notifying you that a new version is available. In this post, I’ll illustrate how [...]