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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Testing your blog security


A difficult aspect of blog security is to know what a potential security risk is. Luckily, there are tools to help you in the quest for a secure blog. In this recipe, I'm going to show you how to use the WP Security Scan plugin to scan your blog, get a listing of security problems, and fix them.

Getting ready

In order to scan your WordPress blog for security problems, you have to install the WP Security Scan plugin. This plugin can be downloaded by visiting the following link:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

I recommend creating a backup of both your database and files, as described earlier in this chapter. Install WP Security Scan by following the general plugin installation procedure described in Chapter 4.

How to do it...

Once installed, the plugin will scan the following:

  • passwords

  • file permissions

And perform the following actions:

  • database security

  • version hiding

  • WordPress admin protection and security

  • removes WP Generator META tag from the core...