Akismet, by Automattic, is a plugin that will protect a WordPress site from spam comments. Manually filtering spam from your site is ridiculously tedious and time consuming. Time better spent working on growing your business. So why do it? Akismet will constantly scan for spam for you! Akismet actually learns as it goes, gathering information […]
WordPress security is a popular topic for a good reason. Consider: In January 2017 alone, WordFence reported an average of 26 million brute force attacks against WordPress websites per day.[1] In the same report they recorded more complex, targeted attacks at an average of 4.7 million per day for the same time frame. That’s a lot […]
With more than 45,000 plugins in the WordPress repo, anytime we publish a review of plugins that meet a specific need the list is shorter than it could be by necessity. We do our best to filter through and bring your attention to some of the best options out there, but the fact is we’re […]
Sifting through spam comments can be one of the most or least enjoyable experiences of operating a website. We tend to have fun with the spam we get around here, but it’s easy to see it being a major inconvenience for many. In truth, it is for us too. We just try to make the […]
There really isn’t a more important aspect of managing a WordPress website than security. All of the time, effort, finances, and imagination you pour into your online creation is a thing of value. You need to protect your online real estate just like you would your physical real estate. Fortunately, there are a number of […]