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Keeping Your Website Safe and Secure

Having your website hacked can be a painful experience.  This is becoming less and less a problem with Wordpress sites because the Wordpress code is hardened against hacking on every release.

Also, there are tools and plugins to help maintain the security.

• Login Lockdown – which locks down login after 3 failed attempts.
• Wordpress File Monitor – which sends a warning email if any file changes.

There are also many tools for to help keep a backup of your Wordpress site.  Making a backup is truly the most important security requirement (true for any website whether using Wordpress or not).  If you keep a backup of your site you can quickly restore your site from a backup prior to being hacked.  Then you can make changes to further lock out the hacker.

You invest a lot of time and resources in your website and you need to know it’s safe and secure.

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Strong and Active Community

As well as the group that produces the core of WordPress, you will find millions of active WordPress users that can assist you in lots of ways. These users produce new plugins, new themes, provide professional services and happily respond to your questions in WordPress forums worldwide.

As of this posting there are over 11,500 plugins to browse through in the Wordpress plugin directory.   Some of my favorites are:

• all in one SEO pack – takes care of many basic SEO settings
• cforms and contact form 7  – both give excellent contact form support
• google analyticator – for google analytics
• google sitemap – for sitemap generation
• really simple captcha – for captcha form support
• wp auto tagger – for auto tag generation
• wp db backup – for backup
• onlywire bookmark and share to social bookmarking

These are just a few.  There are many more which make Wordpress so versatile.

Here is a link to the main Wordpress support forum.   You can find support on almost anything to do with Wordpress here.

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Wordpress is Constantly being Improved and Enhanced

Technology on the internet has never stood still.  It has been an accelerating progression of change which is difficult to and sometimes expensive to try to keep up with.

The Wordpress development environment has been continuously being improved.  In fact they just released Version 3.0 which includes changes for:

• multiple blogs to be run from one wordpress installation
• a new better looking default theme
• new navigation menus that can be customized
• capability for custom post types
• bulk theme and plugin upgrade support

New versions of Wordpress are continuously being developed and released to take full advantage of new technologies, to further improve existing features and security and to develop fresh, cutting-edge features which make managing your website easier.

… and as a user you get these developments for Free!

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Wordpress is Open Source – which allows complete customization.

Wordpress is written in an industry standard web-programming language in which the source is completely open. This means that anyone working with Wordpress can work directly in the code of the software to make changes.

Therefore, a designer/developer has access to make any changes to a Wordpress site.

For example, you may have seen a Wordpress theme you like, but you need to change the colors to match your logo. Your designer can easily go into the code of the system and change the colors, or the layout, or the images used, or anything.  Maybe you are using a Plugin, but it lacks an option that you’d really like to have. No problem, your developer can adapt it for you to any specification.

With WordPress, anything is possible.

It is a completely open website builder.
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