Doing backup is a must to protect your site. In the worst case scenario, having a current backup stored locally or somewhere out of your web server can help to restore your site easily. As there isn’t a 100% way to secure your blog, therefore, doing frequent backup is like buying insurance. You will need […]
How to Check and Patch Up the Timthumb Vulnerability on Your Blog ?
Frankly, I was one of the victims of the Timthumb vulnerability attack couple of weeks ago. Few of my niche sites were using a WordPress theme that contained an outdated timthumb.php got hacked and planted with some malicious codes. Visitors to these websites were prompted with malware warning page on their browsers. The good news […]
How to Install WordPress Plugins? [All Methods]
WordPress is a feature-rich blogging software. However, the use of plugins can extend the features further to do anything you want. There are currently more than 15,000 plugins available in the WordPress Plugin Directory. So let’s learn how to install and make use of these plugins. There are actually quite a few ways to install […]
Atahualpa Tutorial Part 10: Working with the Export/Import Settings
(This is part of the Atahualpa Tutorial for Beginners series) The Part 10 serves as the final part of the series of Atahualpa Guides. I hope you have learnt a lot about Atahualpa from all the tutorial posts. If you have been following the guides to setup your blog, I hope it’s up and running […]
Atahualpa Tutorial Part 9: Customizing the Footer
(This is part of the Atahualpa Tutorial for Beginners series) The footer used to be the least visible part of a blog with most people would not put much effort into changing the default design. But nowadays it might not be the case. More and more blogs are using the footer for navigational purpose and […]
Atahualpa Tutorial Part 8: Adding a Favicon
(This is part of the Atahualpa Tutorial for Beginners series) In this lesson, we will further personalize our blog by adding our own favicon. Before that, let’s understand what is favicon and where does it show in the web browser. A favicon is a short form for favorite icon with file extension .ico. It’s a […]