Inforats | Wordpress Web Development
Wordpress, Web Design, Computer and Technology Solutions
So you’ve decided to build your own WordPress website. Here are a few steps to help you get your site up and running quickly and easily and some reference tutorials, some with quick videos to help manage your WordPress settings.
DOMAIN AND HOSTING: If you haven’t already, choose a domain name and hosting plan. A linux plan with PHP/MySQL is required to host a WordPress site. [Read more...]
Can a WordPress site get a virus? Absolutely. If you were running a logging application on your site, you’d probably find that it was crawled and pinged and bounced on multiple times by bots attempting access to your wordpress website. Viruses happen. Just as PC’s get viruses, web servers do as well and often these viruses embed themselves within your website’s code. I am a firm believer that viruses infect PCs more than MACs because there are more potential victims, i.e. more PC users than MAC users. As this is evident in the up-swing of ‘Mac-attacks’ from malicious code. Same is true with WordPress. As more and more are turning to this open source platform for web development, the market is growing for the development of WordPress hacks. WordPress developers have stayed ahead of this up-swing in attempted hacks, as outlined in the table (source: National Vulnerability Database, keyword search ‘wordpress’) [Read more...]
For a long time now, I’ve been helping people with their computers; setting up networks, repairing windows installations, and the ever-constant malware removal. As an independent web developer and IT guy, I’ve always had a Fix Mix; a bag of tricks and tools I’d use to troubleshoot and clean a computer of infections. Always effective, my techniques were good, but I found that my ‘Fix-Mix’ could be improved upon. The following is a guide/approach to repairing an infected computer that I have found is very useful and most of all, complete. [Read more...]
