With open source software it is fairly easy for knowledgeable hackers to find vulnerabilities in code. Although vulnerabilities are quickly patched with WordPress due to a very pro-active development team, there are steps that should be taken to secure WordPress against hack attacks.
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Were you just locked out of your WordPress blog’s administration area? When you try to access the admin area, do you see the error message, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page”? Did you just recently run a prefix changer to tighten the security of your blog? (more…)

The good news about WordPress is that the development team is very proactive and frequently releases updates that patch security holes reported by other WordPress users. The bad news is that this means that frequent updates must be applied in order to keep WordPress secure.
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The following is a summary of some of our favorite WordPress tips, shortcuts and FAQs.
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We have used WordPress for several years and have always been annoyed by the fact that the “Read More” or “Read the rest of this entry” link that displays when using excerpts on the home page, category pages and archive pages always jumped to the next block of text on a page using a bookmark link. We want the entire page to display, just like any other web page, and want users to start at the top. The solution has always required editing of the WordPress core code. WordPress 2.8 finally resolves this issue and editing of core files is no longer required.
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The XHTML code generated by WordPress includes a few useless meta tags that can easily be removed. The following tutorial explains how to do this.
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Excerpts can be created using the WordPress More quicktag. Quicktags are like HTML formatting tags, but they only work within WordPress. Should you use excerpts? Yes, and here is the reason why.
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Did you know that you can change the sort order of posts and categories listed in menu items with WordPress, and can even eliminate some items that you might not want to display? WordPress uses built-in PHP functions and the output is easily modified without the need to alter the code in the functions themselves.
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Whether or not you are using RSS links on a WordPress blog, RSS feeds are being generated and savvy users will use them. RSS feeds are a great way to keep users updated when you add additional articles to your site, but they can be a double-edged sword that can seriously hurt your search engine rankings if you allow RSS feeds to be created using the entire contents of your articles.
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WordPress 2.1 introduced an autosave feature that automatically saves the current post being edited every 60 seconds. This is a useful feature because it helps prevent the loss of content if your PC crashes, or locks up, or if you accidentally decide to visit another site before saving your work.
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