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Brute Force Attack Attempts to Hack WordPress Admin Password
A huge worldwide brute force attack is hitting WordPress sites. The attack appears to be using a large botnet of infected PCs and servers in an attempt to break into the administration area of WordPress sites. The attacks involve a … Continue reading
What Happened to the Links Section in WordPress?
If you have updated your WordPress sites to version 3.5.x, you probably noticed that the Links section in the admin area has been removed. Actually, it wasn’t been removed for all sites because it is still there if you were … Continue reading
Found a sysadmin@wordpress.org User Account? You Have Been Hacked!
I just found a sysadmin administrator account set up with an e-mail address of sysadmin@wordpress.org in a new client’s WordPress site. This is happening more often recently and some people appear to think that WordPress is creating these accounts. WordPress … Continue reading
WordPress Message: Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check Back in a Minute.
If you are doing an automatic upgrade with WordPress and the only thing you see where your site should be is the message, “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check Back in a Minute.“, your upgrade failed. I have seen this … Continue reading
Simple WordPress Hack Reveals Admin Login Names
One of the first security rules when configuring WordPress is to never use the default administrator name, ‘admin’. Always change it to something that you can remember, but is hard for someone else to figure out. When you use the … Continue reading
Problems With Tech Support at Hosting Companies
It seems to be getting harder to find a hosting company with very good tech support. For business web site hosting, the company needs to have techs on duty 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The techs also … Continue reading
A Fix for Duplicate Form Submissions with Contact Form 7
A WordPress web site client recently raised an issue about an intermittent problem with duplicate form submissions with forms generated using the Contact Form 7 plugin. We did some research and found what appears to be a solution. Multiple from … Continue reading
Chinese Spam Comment Network Hitting WordPress Sites
Tech-Evangelist was a recent victim of a comment spam attack that originated from a wide range of Chinese IP addresses. This is a malicious attack that can temporarily disable web sites and servers. Here is what we saw and what … Continue reading
Automating a WordPress Copyright Notice
Automating the copyright notice on a web site with a dynamic date is easy to do with PHP. We do this on every site that we develop, including WordPress sites.
Uploading and Inserting Images in WordPress, Step By Step
The image upload and insert feature has been around since WordPress 2.5, but remains very confusing for many users. In this tutorial we show you how to use this feature to upload and insert images directly into your Pages and … Continue reading
