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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

Getting rid of the Administrator account


By default, all of the WordPress blogs have an Administrator account that is automatically created when you install WordPress. It is understood that this account has administrator rights, which means that someone logged in with the Administrator account can create other accounts with administrator rights, change WordPress password, and so on.

Getting ready

Before getting rid of the Administrator account, make sure to have a backup of your WordPress database.

How to do it...

As every WordPress blog is supposed to have an Administrator account, chances are that when a hacker tries to crack your password, he or she will use the admin account as the login.

The solution to this problem is to create another account for yourself and then delete the admin account.

  1. If you're currently using the name admin for posting and managing your WordPress blog, then you have to create another administrator account. To do so, log in to your WordPress dashboard and go to...