Speaking of WordPress Security… I was hacked!

Just last week I spoke at Kelly McCausey’s Hot Seminar Series about WordPress security and the need to keep your sites up to date, remove unused plugins, themes, etc…  I shared lots of great tips on how to protect your WordPress sites from being hacked.

Then, just two days after I spoke, [Read more...]

Facebook Removes Custom Landing Tab Option

Update: Facebook relented and restored the custom landing tab option for pages. Hopefully it will remain.

Facebook changes their policies more often then most folks change their socks! Apparently, earlier this week, Facebook removed the ability to easily select a custom landing tab for new visitors to your Facebook page; unless you have at least 10 thousand fans/likes for your page! Then if you’re a super Facebook fan page connector with at least 10 thousand fans, you then will have ability to select a custom landing tab.

This is huge! Why?

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Blog Site Security: Is Your Blog Secure?

This week I heard of more folks who had their blogs hacked. While the first impulse is to blame the blogging platform, the truth is there was a security loophole that made it easier for a hacker to gain access to these blogs.

Those loopholes usually include one (or all) of three things:

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