I may be preaching to the converted on this but…<\/p>\n
I like WordPress (in fact I like most .php-based products).<\/p>\n
I’ve tried Ghost and thought it was meh. I’ve worked with Drupal and thought it was alright (if slightly over-engineered).<\/p>\n
But I *like* WordPress.<\/p>\n
However, the more time I spend with it, the more I realise that WordPress has shortcomings, here and there.<\/p>\n
It’s a pros and cons argument.<\/p>\n
Yes, there is a very large user community developing features and facilities for the (functional and non-functional portions of the) application.<\/p>\n
And this is good. This huge, hardcore team of developers are continually turning the WordPress product in to a much more sophisticated tool.<\/p>\n
But there are also some naughty people out there, attempting to bugger up some people’s WordPress installations.<\/p>\n
Just for a laugh.<\/p>\n
When I was in LA three years ago, one of my WordPress-based websites was hacked.<\/p>\n
It was a relatively straightforward task to get in to the back-end and fix the website. It was just frustrating that it had happened.<\/p>\n
Though, interestingly, I believe I would fix the problem in a much simpler way these days.<\/p>\n
But here are a couple of simple golden rules that everyone should undertake to protect their WordPress environment:<\/p>\n
And while I’m on the patronising subject of the blindingly obvious:<\/p>\n
But don’t worry about deleting your admin user if you have been posting from content from it – you can just assign your new author\/contributor user as owner of the legacy content, and then you don’t lose anything.<\/p>\n
Maybe you already know these things.<\/p>\n
But we’re never to old to learn, are we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I may be preaching to the converted on this but… I like WordPress (in fact I like most .php-based products). I’ve tried Ghost and thought it was meh. I’ve worked with Drupal and thought it was alright (if slightly over-engineered). But I *like* WordPress. However, the more time I spend \u2026 Continue reading