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		<title>How to Find Websites Hosted on a Shared Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to list the number and names of sites hosted on a single shared host (by IP address) you can use the following two services: http://spyonweb.com/ http://w3who.net/ Alternatively, you can follow these steps: First Lookup the DNS Server: http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&#38;host=[A Website.Ext] Then Whois the Domain Server: http://whois.domaintools.com/[The Domain Server Name Above.Ext Alternatively, Bing can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you need to list the number and names of sites hosted on a single shared host (by IP address) you can use the following two services:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spyonweb.com/" rel="nofollow">http://spyonweb.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w3who.net/" rel="nofollow">http://w3who.net/</a></li>
</ul>
<div>Alternatively, you can follow these steps:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>First Lookup the DNS Server:<a href="http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&amp;host=website.com"><br />
</a><a href="http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&amp;host=">http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&amp;host=</a>[A Website.Ext]</li>
<li>Then Whois the Domain Server:<br />
<a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/">http://whois.domaintools.com/</a>[The Domain Server Name Above.Ext</li>
</ul>
<div>Alternatively, Bing can return a list of domains sitting on a single IP:</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip:174.133.19.130">http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip:174.133.19.130</a></li>
</ul>
<div>That&#8217;s it. There&#8217;s a couple methods you can try when looking for the domains sharing a single host and ip address on a shared server.</div>
</div>
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		<title>How to Move Your Website &#8211; Changing Domains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are changing domains because of a re-brand or for some reason aggregating content, you&#8217;ll need to make sure that the change is done flawlessly. Since Google is basically the end all and be all of search, I&#8217;ve consulted their resources. There are two basic links to review: Google Webmaster Central &#8211; Moving Your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are changing domains because of a re-brand or for some reason aggregating content, you&#8217;ll need to make sure that the change is done flawlessly. Since Google is basically the end all and be all of search, I&#8217;ve consulted their resources. There are two basic links to review:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=83105">Google Webmaster Central &#8211; Moving Your Site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html">Google Webmaster Central Blog &#8211; Best Practices When Moving Your Site</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The two links above are basically duplicate content (bad Google), but sometimes it helps to see things explained a couple different ways. The basic steps to take care of can be summed up as:</p>
<ol>
<li>Setup a Google <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8464">Webmaster Tools</a> Account and <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34592">Add New Site</a></li>
<li>Place .htaccess with 301 Permantent Redirects on old domain</li>
<li>Check your database and files for old domain mentions</li>
<li>Submit <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=78808">Sitemap</a> and a Google <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106">Change of Address</a> notification</li>
<li>Let her rip and monitor logs</li>
</ol>
<p>I&#8217;ve done this exercise twice now with (on the same domain no less) with no noticeable decline in search engine link positioning. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be doing this again sometime, so that&#8217;s the reason for the blog post. It&#8217;s basically for self reference for the next time I inevitably have to move a Web site to a new domain.</p>
<p>It took me about 3 days for Google to index a relatively new domain (21 days old).</p>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bing does not provide a Change of Address notification for their <a title="Bing Webmaster Tools" href="http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/?rfp=866799964">Bing Webmaster Tools</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Then, on March 09 we became #1 on the result for Red Bridge Internet&#8230; Put in the request to move March 01</p>
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		<title>How to chown and chgrp at the same time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stupid simple command to change ownership (chown) and change group (chgrp) at the same time. To simultaneously change both the owner and group of files or directories in linux use the following command structure: chown someusername:somegroupname filename.ext You can man chown and man chgrp for more information on what those actually do and for further [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stupid simple command to change ownership (chown) and change group (chgrp) at the same time. To simultaneously change both the owner and group of files or directories in linux use the following command structure:</p>
<ul>
<li>chown someusername:somegroupname filename.ext</li>
</ul>
<p>You can <em>man chown</em> and <em>man chgrp</em> for more information on what those actually do and for further command options.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it. I think that the way I was thinking about the question was not *nix friendly therefore there was no easily accessible answers in the SERPs. I&#8217;ll see if this pops up the next time I need to chown and chgrp at the same time.</p>
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		<title>How to Backup Thunderbird Email on Windows 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backing up Mozilla Thunderbird email on Windows 7 is a simple process of archiving your Thunderbird profile. Follow these steps to backup emails for Thunderbird on Windows 7: Step 1 Close Mozilla Thunderbird Step 2 Viewing Hidden Files and Folders select Start menu search &#8220;folder options&#8221; and select Folder Options select View tab select &#8220;Show [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Backing up Mozilla Thunderbird email on Windows 7 is a simple process of archiving your Thunderbird profile. Follow these steps to backup emails for Thunderbird on Windows 7:</p>
<p>Step 1 Close Mozilla Thunderbird</p>
<p>Step 2 Viewing Hidden Files and Folders</p>
<ul>
<li>select Start menu</li>
<li>search &#8220;folder options&#8221; and select Folder Options</li>
<li>select View tab</li>
<li>select &#8220;Show hidden files, folders, and drives</li>
<li>select Apply</li>
<li>select OK to close</li>
</ul>
<p>Step 3 Locate and Archive your Profile</p>
<ul>
<li>select file explorer</li>
<li>navigate to C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles</li>
<li>locate *.profile (preceded with random 8 character set: ie. v03180j5.profile)</li>
<li>zip *.profile (right click v03180j5.profile and Add to Zip)*</li>
</ul>
<p>* You&#8217;ll need to download and install a ZIP untility such as 7-Zip</p>
<p>Congratulations, you have just backed up your Mozilla Thunderbird email on Windows 7. You can now take this zipped file of your Thunderbird email and safely store. Please remember to remove the ZIP file from the Profiles directory.</p>
<p>If there was ever a time that you need to revert or pull this archive back into your profile, you&#8217;ll just need to take the files (ONLY the files) within your *.profile and set those in a new *.profile folder that would be created after a fresh Mozilla Thunderbird install.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Grooveshark Streaming Issue Sprint HTC Evo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just took care of a streaming issue on my Sprint HTC Evo for Grooveshark, a streaming music service. There&#8217;s a number of forum posts on the internet, most on Android forums discussing it, but I saw a hell of a lot of noise. There were just too many differing &#8220;solutions&#8221; which seemed not to match [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-600" title="Grooveshark Sprint HTC Evo Error" src="http://www.redbridgenet.com/wp-content/uploads/groovesharklogo-232x250.png" alt="Grooveshark Sprint HTC Evo Error" width="186" height="200" />Just took care of a streaming issue on my <a href="http://support.sprint.com/support/device/HTC/HTC_EVOtrade_4G-dvc2060001prd">Sprint HTC Evo</a> for <a href="http://www.grooveshark.com">Grooveshark</a>, a streaming music service. There&#8217;s a number of forum posts on the internet, most on Android forums discussing it, but I saw a hell of a lot of noise. There were just too many differing &#8220;solutions&#8221; which seemed not to match my exact issue.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I eventually found my way to the Grooveshark forums:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://forums.grooveshark.com/discussion/1977/Instructions-to-get-Grooveshark-App-working-on-your-HTC-Evo">Instructions to get Grooveshark App working on your HTC Evo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/articles/9707-htc-unknown-media-player-error">HTC Unknown Media Player Issue</a></li>
</ul>
<p>There&#8217;s another post on the <a href="http://blog.grooveshark.com">Grooveshark Blog</a> which explains the issue as well:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/2830609812/groovesharks-evolution">Grooveshark’s EVOlution</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Well, to make a long story short I started out by calling Sprint customer service to retrieve my MSL as suggested in the first forum post. However, what eventually ended up happening is that they just sent a <strong>Streaming Reset</strong> to my device. That actually took care of the issue (as of this writing) and now my <a href="http://www.grooveshark.com">Grooveshark</a> streaming issue on my Sprint HTC Evo seems to have been fixed.</p>
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		<title>Linux How to Add Users to Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I know there are man pages, I know there are hundreds of posts on the internet explaining linux user groups, and I know there are posts everywhere explaining how to add users to groups in Linux. However, every single time I need a quick reference, I just can&#8217;t seem to find a good clean [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-577" title="How to Add Users to Groups in Linux" src="http://www.redbridgenet.com/wp-content/uploads/linux_robot-197x250.jpg" alt="How to Add Users to Groups in Linux" width="197" height="250" />Ok, I know there are man pages, I know there are hundreds of posts on the internet explaining linux user groups, and I know there are posts everywhere explaining how to add users to groups in Linux. However, every single time I need a quick reference, I just can&#8217;t seem to find a good clean one. I see forums, I see a bunch of competing information, more than anything I see noise.</p>
<p>So, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing my own post on how to add users to groups in Linux. We&#8217;ll be using the user <em>tommy</em> in these examples:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h4>New Users <em>useradd</em></h4>
<blockquote><p># Add user to supplementary group<br />
$ useradd -G groupname tommy</p>
<p># Add user to multiple groups<br />
$ useradd -G groupname,groupname2 tommy</p>
<p># Add user to primary group<br />
$ useradd -g groupname tommy</p></blockquote>
<h4>Existing Users <em>usermod</em></h4>
<blockquote><p># Add user to supplementary groups<br />
$ usermod -a -G groupname tommy</p>
<p># Assign new primary group to user<br />
$ usermod -g groupname tommy</p></blockquote>
<h4>Show Groups <em>id</em></h4>
<blockquote><p># Check the user group membership<br />
# Shows tommy is member of groupname (primary), and group2 (supplementary)<br />
$ id tommy<br />
uid=500(tommy) gid=500(tommy) groups=500(groupname),400(groupname2)</p>
<p># Bonus: Remove tommy from groupname2<br />
$ gpasswd -d tommy groupname2
</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, this is lifted verbatim from the post here:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.go2linux.org/change-add-user-to-group">http://www.go2linux.org/change-add-user-to-group</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This is another post I&#8217;ve used:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s some other simple writeups:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.planetmy.com/blog/how-to-add-linux-user-to-group/">http://www.planetmy.com/blog/how-to-add-linux-user-to-group/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;m trying to give attribution here, but I just want to get this mirrored for my own use, because over the years I&#8217;ve seen good sites and good information just vanish.</p>
<p>So, to wrap this up. These are my instructions for adding users to groups in Linux.</p>
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		<title>How to View Visits Hourly in Google Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 19:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many out there who believe Google Analytics does not provide hourly reporting in their traffic reports. The main question is if Google Analytics provides hourly statistics or traffic reports broken down by hour for a particular day. With the help of an existing post from Get Satisfaction titled, &#8220;In Google Analytics is there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many out there who believe <a title="Google Analytics" href="http://analytics.google.com">Google Analytics</a> does not provide hourly reporting in their traffic reports. The main question is if <a title="Google Analytics" href="http://analytics.google.com">Google Analytics</a> provides hourly statistics or traffic reports broken down by hour for a particular day.</p>
<p>With the help of an existing post from <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/">Get Satisfaction</a> titled, &#8220;<a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/in_google_analytics_is_there_any_way_to_view_traffic_by_time_of_day">In Google Analytics is there any way to view traffic by time-of-day?</a>&#8220;, I can show a Google Analytics view that provides an hourly report for your visits by the day.</p>
<p>The post I referenced provides a screen shot of the Analytics screen under Visitor Trending and Time On Site in which there is a link set titled <em>View By: Daily | Hourly</em>. This is no longer in the Google Analytics UI as mentioned by a commenter in that same post.</p>
<p>The best method to view visitors by hour with Google Analytics is to do the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>=&gt; select Visitors<br />
=&gt; select Vistor Trending<br />
=&gt; select Visits<br />
=&gt; select Clock/Hourly icon (to the right under the date selection option)</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is a screen-shot showing visits broken down by hour for May 14:</p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-193" href="http://www.redbridgenet.com/how-to/how-to-view-visits-hourly-in-google-analytics/attachment/how-to-view-hourly-visits-google-analytics/"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-193" title="how-to-view-hourly-visits-google-analytics" src="http://www.redbridgenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/how-to-view-hourly-visits-google-analytics-584x397.gif" alt="How to View Hourly Visits Google Analytics" width="584" height="397" /></a></p>
<p>If your report covers multiple days the hourly report will show the total amount of visitors per day for the date range. If the date range covers only one day the report will show visitors per hour for that particular day.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it. That is how you can view visits and traffic by hour using Google Analytics.</p>
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		<title>How to Approve New Members with Ning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a site on the Ning Network and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with descriptive member names (ie. buy viagra today) and then immediately posting their junk. This isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got a site on the <a title="Ning Network" href="http://www.ning.com">Ning Network</a> and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with descriptive member names (ie. buy viagra today) and then immediately posting their junk.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t rocket science, but for some reason I found it to be a royal pain in the ass to find any <a href="http://www.ning.com">Ning</a> documentation on how to force new member approval on a Ning site.</p>
<p>Well, figured it out and here it is:</p>
<ul>
<li>login as Administrator</li>
<li>select Manage</li>
<li>select Privacy</li>
<li>select Approve new members before they join</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s how you choose to approve new members/accounts on your <a href="http://www.ning.com">Ning Network</a> site.</p>
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		<title>How to Create a Magento Staging Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades. In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I&#8217;m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains. My [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades.</p>
<p>In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I&#8217;m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains.</p>
<p>My main Web site will be referred to as www.domain.com. I&#8217;ll be creating the Magento development site at dev.domain.com. Below is a step by step documentation of the steps taken to create my Magento staging area using virtual host.</p>
<p>Create CNAME Record:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> login to Godaddy<br />
=> select Domains : My Domains<br />
=> select your domain (domain.com)<br />
=> select Total DNS Control and MX Records<br />
=> select Add New CNAME Record<br />
=> enter (dev) as Alias Name<br />
=> enter (domain.com) as Host Name</p></blockquote>
<p>Create Staging Files:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> copy live file directory to dev<br />
=> run cp -R store.domain.com dev.domain.com</p></blockquote>
<p>Create Staging Database:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> create new Dev database<br />
=> dump Production database<br />
=> mysqldump &#8211;opt &#8211;user=liveuser &#8211;pass=livepass livedbname > livedbname.sql<br />
=> load Staging database<br />
=> mysql -u devuser -p devdbname < livedbname.sql</p></blockquote>
<p>Setup Virtual Host in Apache:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> locate conf file (ie httpd.conf, vhosts.conf)<br />
=> create VirtualHost entry for dev.domain.com<br />
=> locate apachectl<br />
=> run ./apachectl configtest<br />
=> run ./apachectl restart</p></blockquote>
<p>Sync Staging Site DB Credentials:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> editapp/etc/local.xml<br />
=> edit lines<br />
=> edit lines<br />
=> edit lines</p></blockquote>
<p>Sync Staging Site Database Settings:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> login to MySQL dev database<br />
=> find config to edit<br />
=> SELECT * FROM `core_config_data` WHERE `path` LIKE &#8216;%base_url%&#8217;;<br />
=> update path web/unsecure/base_url<br />
=> update path web/secure/base_url</p></blockquote>
<p>Cleanup Staging Site:</p>
<blockquote><p>=> rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*<br />
=> rm -rf var/cache/* var/session/*</p></blockquote>
<p>It might take a while to shake out the cache, but that should basically get you a Magento staging server &#8212; a snapshot of your live Magento site.</p>
<blockquote><p>** Note: I pulled my hair out for hours trying to figure out why the dev url was not printing correctly. It just seemed that whatever I did the system wouldn&#8217;t pick up the new base_urls. What I did was restart apache which I&#8217;m assuming cleared cache and allowed for the update base_url to be picked up. Also, make sure var directory is writable.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>10 Ways to Protect a WordPress Admin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Reckers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/ A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/">Smashing Magazine</a> again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/">protect a WordPress administrator area.</a> All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/">http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/</a></p></blockquote>
<p>A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a>. Getting up-to-date is never a bad thing, so it&#8217;s well worth doing.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the article:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress</strong>, meaning all those pages in the <em>wp-admin</em> folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed <strong>after a user a verified</strong>. We bolded the phrase &#8220;after a user is verified&#8221; deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.</p>
<p>To make an attack more difficult, you should perform the following actions manually. These solutions do not guarantee 100% security, but you can create effective stumbling blocks on a hacker&#8217;s way to the administration area.</p></blockquote>
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