Posts Tagged ‘security’
141 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)
This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we’ve heard of. It’s by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you’ve heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they’re doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to our WordPress website clients? Have a listen and post your comments…
Read More140 – Feeling insecure about security (Part 1)
This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with your WordPress website. There’s the usual things such as uptime monitoring, backups and implementing a firewall, but there’s also some other, more unusual topics. Do you make sure that you’re keeping your client data safe? Are you expunging backups and SSH keys that you no longer require in case your system is compromised…
Read More139 – A better way to manage your media library with Stuart Brameld
If you’ve been using WordPress any length of time, you’ll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It’s a pretty decent UI, but it’s not as good as services that we’re using such as Google Drive or Dropbox. WP Media Manager aims to fix that. Not only does it look great but it stores all of your assets in Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure with all of the benefits that this brings… highly scalable, secure, permissions based. I think that this plugin is certainly worth a look… PS… Sorry about the poor audio this week!
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #71 – Gutenberg animations, Elementor icons and Google playing games
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 8th July 2019
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #67 – WordPress 5.2.2 RC1, WordCamp Europe and fake videos
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 10th June 2019
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #65 – WordPress turns 16, average salaries and how Slack came to be
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 27th May 2019
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #63 – Gutenberg 5.7, Plugin updates and Windows Linux Kernel
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 13th May 2019
Read More127 – The importance of keeping logs from your WordPress websites with Robert Abela
Have you ever had a problem with your WordPress website that you could not figure out. Something appears to have been deleted, something suspicious appears to be happening but your cannot really be sure. WP Security Audit Log is a WordPress plugin that creates logs for just about everything on your site. It will enable you to work out exactly what went wrong and hopefully give you a let up in getting the site back up and running in the least time possible.
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #58 – WordPress 5.2 Beta 2, so much security and photos of black holes
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 8th April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 Beta 2 Gutenberg Team Publishes RFC Document on Widget-Block Interfaces Community WordSesh Returns May 22, 2019, Speaker Application Deadline is April 19 GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests Security SQL Injection in Advance Contact Form…
Read MoreWP Builds Newsletter #57 – Gutenberg mandatory, evil plugins and stand up more
This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 1st April 2019: WordPress Core WordPress 5.2 to Make Gutenberg Block Editor Use Mandatory for All WordPress Sites“Since its initial release in WordPress 5.0, WordPress fans have used the new Gutenberg block editor to publish billions of posts on millions of websites. Third-party developers have also…
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