The Hacked WordPress Blog, Part 1

I’ve heard too many horror stories about hacked WordPress blogs lately. There are a lot of reasons why these blogs were left vulnerable and open to exploitation:

• Some of them did not have the latest version of WordPress installed.
• Others had improper configurations.
• Yet others had stuff available (plug-ins and themes) that weren’t necessary.
• And some even had zero precautions in place to protect the list of plug-ins they were running!

There are a lot of simple steps you can take to better protect your WordPress blogs and it’s never been easier to keep your blogs protected.

WordPress released a new version of WordPress earlier this week. With the system I have in place, I was able to upgrade 10 blogs in less than 30 minutes — and I have a dialup connection to the Internet — while a 20 month old toddler tried to keep me from working (she was sitting on my lap). And I built that system using tools that didn’t cost me a cent.

The days of excuses are gone.

I’m going to be talking about some of these problems in the days and weeks to come and will be offering solutions to some of the more common problems.

Thanks for listening,
Tom