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...

You might have heard of Wordpress. You probably use WordPress. This is a blogging platform where you can log into one central area and add new post, add new content that people can read, possibly retweet, link to, comment on and it's a very easy way to get a website up and running quickly and easily maintain it over time. But did you know that you can have a WordPress blog with multiple authors? Did you know that you can automatically submit any new WordPress blog post that you post to search engines...

If you're worried about people getting into your WordPress blog, I want to let you know the ways they normally do it so you can easily safeguard against these attacks. Fortunately computer hacking is nothing like you see in the movies. They don't plug in a fancy computer and run a bunch of numbers, usually the way people get into your website, into your WordPress blog is through some pretty simple and common means, such as an out-dated version of WordPress, out-dated plugins with vulnerabilities,...

I don't want to scare you but I want you to be aware of the reasons why you should backup your WordPress blog, and even better protect it against someone getting access to that site.

Someone getting into your WordPress blog can delete anything that is there, can replace it with something else, redirect it and in fact access every single file in that WordPress site, sometimes other websites on the same server. That is why it's really important to keep people out and backup your site...

If you have a WordPress blog or a website, you may be wondering how am I supposed to keep it safe from hackers and from accidental changes or deletions?

In addition to any kind of fancy modifications or security plugins, there are a few easy steps you can take right now within the next few minutes to make sure your WordPress website is secure.

The first thing you can do is only connect to WordPress on a secure WiFi connection, only use trusted plugins, and keep WordPress...