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5 Girl-Inspired Free WordPress Themes
Web Hosting Help Guy is a sensitive fellow — we know that the worlds of Web design and development can sometimes seem a little on the male-dominated side. Truthfully, we’re more comfortable with black and blue than with pink and purple, but we wanted to acknowledge that the women are rocking the blogosphere. That’s why, after testing these with the few ladies in our office, we explored our softer side and came up with some new WordPress themes for the girl bloggers out there.
This is our second edition of “Theme Thursday” — each week, we’ll put out a bunch
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Save Time: How To Set Up A Cron Job
Everyone knows there are tasks to administer to our computers and servers that we don’t do as often as we should. It takes time to back up or or clean up files or perform other repetitive, administrative-type tasks, so we avoid them doing them regularly; meanwhile, we’re one system crash away from losing everything. Luckily, your Linux system has a built-in tool to help you take care of such time-intensive tasks. It’s called a “cron job,” and, if used properly, it can to do the things that keep your
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WordPress Security Practices and PlugIns
Recently, in issuing Version 2.8.5, WordPress fixed a vulnerability in previous versions that left it open to a certain kind of denial of service, or DoS, attack. A DoS attack is launched by hackers against a specific website (usually a company or a blog), designed to crash the site and server by flooding it with requests for information, comments, or trackbacks.
Rest easy, though – there are some simple practices you can employ to lessen your chances of becoming a victim. And, luckily for users, it’s not just the bigger companies and organizations that are developing protections against vulnerabilities like these
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