[WordPress Security] Serious Security Hole in WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 01:54 Written by TJ Marsh Sunday, 5 May 2013 12:00

A security hole that allows anyone to execute any command on your WordPress server has been discovered in the WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache plugins.

WHAT TO DO:

Defending Against the WordPress Brute Force Flood

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 04:21 Written by Scott White Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:00

There has been a massive distributed brute force attack being launched the past few days against every WordPress based website at every hosting provider in the world.

Well over 150,000 different IP addresses are currently attempting to gain access to the admin user’s password in every WordPress site.  By default, WordPress cannot protect itself against this type of attack, but you can protect yourself by following the tips in this email.

Here are the most important ones:

How to Fix Loading Errors after Database Migration in WordPress

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by Anand Narayanaswamy Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:00

Imagine, you have currently hosted your WordPress site on a Windows server. As your site grows with more traffic, you will be required to migrate your site to a Linux based server which not only gives great speed but also fixes the compatibility problems associated with certain plugins.

You hosted the site under an installation directory in Windows and you moved to root directory under the new Linux server.

You will most likely view the following error message

How to Auto Publish Your Twitter Tweets as WordPress Posts

Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 08:44 Written by TJ Marsh Monday, 15 April 2013 12:00

We are going to use a plugin called Twitter Tools by Alex King to auto publish twitter tweets as New WordPress Posts. This plugin creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Auto Publish Your Twitter Tweets as WordPress Posts

How to Create a Custom Home Page in WordPress

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:23 Written by TJ Marsh Saturday, 13 April 2013 12:00

The Arvixe Blog is using WordPress if you can’t tell already, but we have a custom design. One of the part about our design is that we have a custom homepage. You may see many websites on the web using a custom homepage for their WordPress. In this tutorial we will show you how you can create a custom homepage by combining the use of custom page template, and WordPress admin panel.

Click on Settings > Reading

Select the option of Static Page, now select one of your page to be the homepage, while another page to be your blog page.