Checkout the snaps of my last Training Seminar on WordPress. I did a free knowledge sharing about WordPress with techno students of an institute.
You can download or watch the presentation from here – http://www.slideshare.net/guptaanil/wordpress-whatwhyhow
Two weeks back on 16th and 17th October, I went to visit Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering at Visnagar along with Aslam – CTO, Multidots Solutions Pvt Ltd. We were invited by Dr. Jayesh Patel – Head of the MCA Department to give a workshop to their students on open source web technologies. We thought, its an honor and noble task to educate the engineering & Information Technology students about what is going latest in this world. So, we decided to take this two days workshop for MCA students of SPCE. We have prepared a very nice set of topics and materials for this two days workshop. Here, is the list of topics we covered during these two days. We have provided a through understanding of subject and web development technologies.
It was a very great experience and time there. We enjoyed a lot with students and very grateful to the hospitality they have offered. We played games with students, took test, honored the students with certificates and lot. We have received very nice feedback from students and professor of the Department.
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I am writing this post with a concern to security of WordPress blog and site. WordPress is a choice of everyone now a days for online blog and CMS. Small and Big site owners love WordPress. But Hackers and Crackers around the world are too in love with it 
They can clearly see the growing fame of the WordPress. They are seeing their future with wordpress and they are working very hard for it. It’s time to get ready for the war and make our home safe. Yes, Its very serious indeed, lots of hackers are trying to crack the WordPress. They are constantly thinking and writing scripts to hack WordPress sites and blog. So, if you are a blog owner, managing one or two WordPress site, developing, selling or doing anything with WordPress. Please keep reading it, this is very important.
We build approx 4-5 WordPress blogs and sites every month at MULTIDOTS. It is very important for us to make sure those sites are secure. Hence we have put this in a practice to pass a WordPress project from the following steps before it goes live. I thought I should share this check off list to protect a WordPress Blog or Site.
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This very easy to use plugin will sort out some of the basic security issues with WordPress – it’ll scan your WordPress installation and will suggest the required changes that may be harmful for security reason.
Plugins are an easy way for a hacker to get access to your blog if they’ve got flaws in them. They can find the plugins you’re using by visiting /wp-content/plugins/, and they’ll find all the plugins that you’re using. The solution? Put a blank index.html file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Common sense. Use a good password. Don’t use the same password that you use on every site, create something that is easily memorable, with a mix of UPPER and lower case and some numbers in there too. Change your password regularly too.
By default, the WordPress user name is admin. Lot’s of people don’t change it. Why should you change it? If a hacker has your username, he’s halfway there to getting into your site, he just has to guess your password. If the hacker has to guess your username as well, then that’s twice as much work to do. It’s super easy to migrate posts from one user to another, just create your new user and then delete the admin user. You’ll be given the option to migrate posts to another user.
Your WP-Config.php contains your database name, database username and database password. It’s something to protect.
Just add the following code to your .htaccess file:
# protect wpconfig.php
order allow,deny from allIn WordPress, the wp-config.php file is the file that stores the database information that WordPress needs to connect its circuit, so-to-speak. This file contains the name, address and password of the MySQL database that stores all of your user info, blog posts and other important content.
Using a secret key, you can make it even more difficult for someone to gain access to your account.
Go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ and copy the results into this section of your wp-config.php file if you haven’t already set up a secret key.
First off, go into your header.php file and remove the meta data. It will be look like this.
remove_action('wp_header', 'wp_generator');
The Login LockDown plugin will lock out users if they enter their password wrong too many times. You can choose how many times users can enter their password and also how long they’re locked out for via a neat options page.
Source – WP Plugin Directory
This isn’t something that I do personally, as I blog on a fair number of different computers, but if you’re just on the one, with a fixed IP, then this is a great hack for you: you can restrict access to the wp-admin directory with a spluginimple .htaccess hack:
order deny, allow allow from a.b.c.d. #your static ip deny from allOften, hackers are able to gain access to your site because you’ve left files or folders with permissions that are simply too liberal.
Depending on how you have installed WordPress, or the default practices from your webhost, the permissions for files and folders on your WordPress install may not be appropriate.
The WordPress Codex has an outline of what permissions are acceptable. File and directory permissions can be changed either via an FTP client or within the administrative page from your web host.
This page details more about how file permissions work and how to change them using a number of different systems.
If your host has an SSL certificate then you can use this great little plugin to login via SSL. The Admin SSL plugin “secures login page, admin area, posts, pages – whatever you want – using Private or Shared SSL.”
If you are a WordPress Developer or know any more tips to security please share them here.
I have observed many developers do mistakes while integrating PayPal – Website Payment Standards. It may looks like correct and there will be everything working as well but if you have not integrated it well then there are few chance of data integrity problems. Yes ! you have to be very careful and wise while integrating PayPal – Website Payment Standards. If you are a developer and worked or working to integrate PayPal Website Payment Standards in your E-commerce application, project or any other assignments then you should refer the flow I have designed. It has some clear indication of what should be done at what stages. This is for developers and not for normal users.
Initially, I have prepared this for my development team at MULTIDOTS to make sure every integration we do must be secure, stable and well integrated then I thought I should make it open for everyone for their knowledge.
A stitch in time saves nine. A little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.
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WordPress Again!! Yes, I am back again with something very very interesting for you if you own a WordPress Blog or Site. MULTIDOTS offers a FREE upgrade to your WordPress Blog or Site!!
Which version of WordPress is your site or blog running with? On June 2010 WordPress 3.0 was released with many interesting features, upgrades and fixes. Just after that there was a new release of WordPress 3.0.1 which is the very latest. Is your blog or site up to date with WordPress 3.0.1? Have you upgraded your WordPress Version with WordPress 3.0.1? If not then you are at the right place on right time.
Are you thinking WHY should I care to upgrade? Please keep reading…
- Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.
- By upgrading to the latest version you can open a door to enjoy new hot features and beauties.
If you are still reading this, you must be interested to know how to upgrade and what does it involve while upgrading?
How to Upgrade with WordPress Latest Version?
- Wp-config.php
- Wp-content Folder
- Wp-images
- Wp-includes/languages- .htaccess file
- robots.txt
Now, WordPress has an automatic upgrade which can save your lots of time but still you have to be very careful while upgrading it automatic. Don’t forget to refer the above steps before you upgrade even in case of automatic upgrade.
Well, it all sounds interesting to upgrade and meaningful as well. But, it must be a little complex, tedious and time consuming work to upgrade from an old WordPress version with a new version for someone. So here is the GOOD NEWS for you. Now, you can upgrade your old WordPress Blogs or Sites to the latest version absolutely FREE at MULTIDOTS. You don’t have to bother about any of the complexity. Our WordPress experts will take care of everything to make sure a seamless upgrade for you. Hurry up!! Contact us with your Blog or Site details. This is for a very limited time only.
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