Updated: October 1, 2016 It’s time to clear up the WordPress security debate once and for all. Despite all the skepticism, WordPress core is without a doubt one of the most secure platforms you can choose to put a site on. Period. Since Jan. 24, 2013 no major vulnerabilities have been discovered inside WordPress core. That means that across every, up-to-date, WordPress install on every hosting company across the internet, no vulnerabilities in WordPress core have been discovered. That’s unprecedented in open-source software. If you’re skeptical, that’s reasonable. Sometimes it’s hard to ignore rumors. But I’m going to do my […]

Have you ever found yourself dealing with a spam attack on your site? If you have, you’d know. It almost always starts out as a trickle… Maybe it’s a couple comments about how enlightening your entry on the summer corn you made on the grill a few weeks ago was. Only all the comment author links are to pharmaceutical sites or places where you can buy knock-off high heels. And can an entry about corn really be enlightening? *sigh* This is spam, isn’t it? Well, let’s go ahead and flag those in Akismet so it can catch others like it. […]