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Common WordPress Malware Infections — Smashing WordPress. Advertisement WordPress security is serious business.

Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility increases its vulnerability; plugins and themes house flawed logic, loopholes, Easter eggs, backdoors and a slew of other issues. Firing up your computer to find that you’re supporting a random cause or selling Viagra can be devastating. In WordPress’ core, all security issues are quickly addressed; the WordPress team is focused on strictly maintaining the integrity of the application. The Right Way to Use Categories and Tags in WordPress to Boost SEO. Categories and tags offer up opportunities for increased engagement and traffic that most bloggers waste.

There are many benefits to creating and maintaining a well thought out category and tagging system when blogging. For one, the user experience can be vastly improved by well-constructed navigational elements. But secondly, categories and tags offer an opportunity to increase traffic to your site via search engines. One client of mine runs a large blog that attracts around 250,000 unique visitors per month. Around 5% of those visitors are referred by tag pages listed in search engines. So, if you’re interested in improving the user experience and boosting traffic to your site, read on to find out how you should optimize your categories and tags in WordPress. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros. Do you blog?

Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today’s hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are… #1: InboxQ Mitt Ray @MittRay A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ. Hard to swallow: race-based medicine.

This article was taken from the November issue of Wired UK magazine.

Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online The helicopter hovers over the ledge and then runs for several minutes across the red-rock floor of the Grand Canyon. It ducks down into another, deeper valley with golden trees, fields of Indian corn and horses that sleep in the autumn sun. The "land down below", as it is known, is the world of the Native American tribe the Havasupai ("people of the blue-green water"). It is, in some respects, a natural paradise; though on closer inspection the houses are small and propped up on stilts, with rubbish trampled into the dirt. The Psychology Of Going Viral: 12 Proven Ways to Craft Content That Gets People Talking (About You)

The web is a busy place… it’s become tough to get noticed I think that’s why so many folks have become obsessed with the idea of “viral” content.

When something takes off, it’s fun to watch… but are there any commonalities between those things that seem to take-over the internet for a short while? There’s got to be… right? Luckily, you no longer have to guess, because today, I have the research that will show you. How To Push People’s Buttons I’ve just finished re-reading the book Buzz Marketing, authored by a guy named Mark Hughes. Mark was known as the VP of marketing for Half.com back in the day, and was famous for… get this, convincing the town of Halfway, Oregon to rename itself Half.com!

Yes, he got a town to agree to name itself after a website. 14 Ways to Build Strategic Relationships With the Who’s Who of Social Media.

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How To Implement Google Custom Search Into A WordPress Blog. There is something you should know about WordPress’ standard search feature – it is awful.

For anything more than the most basic of blogs, it is extremely limited. It sorts results by reverse chronological order (rather than by relevance), and shows by default the first 55 characters of a page or post (rather than a relevant excerpt). This is a big problem for any WordPress blogger, because people are used to finding things by searching. Navigation elements are all well and good, but many people will never go near a category link or a tag. Wen surfers have been conditioned to search by default. The crux of the issue is that people want to search, and they expect quality results. The Solution Fortunately, there is an ideal solution – Google itself. The bad news is that creating your own custom search engine and integrating it with your site is somewhat complicated. 1.

Once you have downloaded, installed and activated the Google Custom Search plugin, you need to create your search engine. Blogging Romance, Bootstrap Themes and a ManageWP Milestone [Links Mashup] We all love links!

Welcome to the first installment of a brand new feature on the ManageWP blog! Every Friday we will be linking to the very best content that we have read in the previous seven days. You will only find the cream of the crop here – no fluff. Let’s not waste your time on introductions though – it’s time to start reading! For your ease of browsing we have sorted the posts into four categories. Blogging Bloggers should always be working to improve their craft. 17 Copy-And-Paste Blog Post Templates - seeking blog post inspiration? WordPress We all love WordPress. WordPress permalinks FAQ : Your Guide to choosing the right Permalink Structure - all WordPress bloggers should have a good understanding of permalinks.

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