I don't know about you, but when I was first securing my WordPress blog, and I was researching to see what others were doing to keep their blog safe, I found so much information that I was completely confused. And some of the information was in fact over the top or superstitious. People told me to rename this file, rename this folder and install these ten plugins. It seemed to be quite a bit of work and effort.

An easy way to keep WordPress safe is to use a few built-in tools. First...

Getting your WordPress blog hacked is a very scary thought. After all, you spent so many hours updating that site and making it perfect and now someone is coming along and they might have destroyed it, changed it, or is now trying to extort you for access.

There are a few things you can do when someone gets access to your site. The very first thing you should do is backup everything. Backup your blog, backup your files, keep it all in a safe place, and let your web host know immediately...

When you're trying to make money on the internet, especially from flipping sites or selling virtual real estate, a domain name on its own is not worth very much. And even if your domain name is worth something, it's worth a lot more if it contains content. Because think about it, if you own a very high demand domain name such as a.com name with one or two English words that's very short and has a high search volume, people would want to buy that domain name because it will get them lots of traffic....

You may have heard that WordPress is the best platform for hosting your very own download area or protected membership site where you can charge a one-time fee or a multi-fee for access to content. You can use WordPress and install it as is and use any WordPress plugin and easily manipulate, add any content the way you would with any WordPress blog but you have the added benefit of charging for your information. The pieces to get this all set up are to install your WordPress blog, to install a membership...

When people are talking about WordPress, they may be talking about WordPress.com which is the remotely hosted version of WordPress that's free or WordPress.org which is the self-hosted version of WordPress which is also free but it costs you money to host that site on a webhost such as HostGator or BlueHost. If you're deciding between your remotely hosted site like WordPress.com or remotely hosted like WordPress.org, you should definitely be self-hosted because when you're self-hosted, you have...