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A lot of critical vulnerabilities have being discovered in WordPress in the last few years. Constant updates are released, but it seems that this is not enough. Although there aren’t techniques that shall prevent your WordPress from being hacked 100%, you can at least make it harder.  Here are some tips which we recommend for [...]

If you are receiving “404 Not Found” error after activating the search engine friendly URLs, please check the permalinks structure in the admin area of your WordPress website. If you think the SEF URLs are correctly setup, please submit a ticket to our technical support team. They should be able to resolve the issue in [...]

Users who are using the WordPress platform may share their experiences and opinions on the official WordPress forum. It could be found here: http://wordpress.org/support/

In case you are not able to upload files to your WordPress website, you should check the permissions of the following folders: wp-content/ :  Permissions: 755 wp-content/uploads: Permissions: 755 or 777   You may change the permissions of your website files using your cPanel → File Manager or your favorite FTP client. If after setting [...]

You may easily chane the media settings for your WordPress website from the admin area → Settings category. Choose the “Media” submenu and you will be provided with a list of settings which you may edit.   Once you have finished editing the settings save the changes.

To manage users of your WordPress Website login to the admin area. Find the “Users” category from the left side menu. Click “All users”. You will be provided with a list of users registered on your website. You have the options to add, delete and edit users. To add new users click the “Add” button [...]

To edit existing links of your WordPress website, login the admin area. From the left side menu select the “Links” category and choose “All links” submenu. You will see a list of all the links on your website. Find the one which you would like to edit. By hovering it you will see an “edit” [...]

To add a embed video to a post of your WordPress website, follow these steps:   1)      login the Dashboard 2)      navigate to the “Posts” category -> “Add new post”. 3)       In the editor, click “insert/upload” link. 4)       Select if you want to upload image/video “From Computer” or “From URL” 5)      Upload the image/video or [...]

To add a embed video to a post of your WordPress website, follow these steps:   1)      login the Dashboard 2)      navigate to the “Posts” category -> “Add new post”. 3)       In the editor, click “insert/upload” link. 4)       Select “From URL” 5)      enter the URL to the video which you want to add to your [...]

WordPress allows you to easily add RSS feeds for your website. To setup RSS feeds follows  these steps: 1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard and from the left side menu navigate to “Widgets” under  the “Appearance” category. 2. Click the “Add” button next to the “RSS” widget. 3. Click the “Edit” button for the [...]

Project Honey Pot is used for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website.  You may use the Project Honey Pot system to catch spammers  by hiding links which are invisible for your website visitors, but are used as “traps” for spambots and crawlers . To use the Project Honey [...]

You may easily exclude folder from the WordPress permalinks by editing the .htaccess file of your WordPress. By default the .htaccess come in the following format:   # BEGIN WordPress  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>  RewriteEngine On  RewriteBase /  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d  RewriteRule . /index.php [L]  </IfModule> # END WordPress   You will need to [...]

If after changing settings to your website the frontpage becomes blank, try reverting the settings in the way they were previously configured. If this does not resolve the issue or you are not able to access the administration area, please submit a ticket to our technical support team and provide them with brief description what [...]

To set your WordPress blog as private login your website’s admin area. Navigate to “Settings” → “Privacy“. Select the following option:   “I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose”   Save the settings and your website is now private. You also have the option to set only certain posts [...]

Before making any changes to the database, create a backup using phpMyAdmin, located in your cPanel. Once you have a backup of your database find the table called “wp_options”(wp_ is the default wordpress prefix). Click to edit the “active_plugins” column. You should see something like this:  a:2:{i:0;s:19:”akismet/akismet.php”;i:1;s:9:”hello.php”;}   This string represents all the active plugins. [...]

To change the URL with which you will be accessing the WordPress script, login to your cPanel and find the phpMyAdmin tool. Navigate to the databases which your website uses and find the table called wp_options (the wp_ prefix is the default one, it might be different if you have chosen another prefix upon installation [...]

To check the version of your WordPress script, login the admin area. In the first page in the “Dashboard” you will have table with title “Right now”. The last line of that table shows the version of your WordPress script.

To transfer your WordPress website simply follow these steps:   1)      Download your website files using your favorite FTP client 2)      Export your database using tool like phpMyAdmin for example 3)      In your new account upload the website files using FTP client or your cPanel’s File Manager 4)      Create new database using your cPanel → [...]

To disable trackbacks for your WordPress website, login the admin area and navigate to Settings → Discussion. Remove the mark for “Allow link notifications from other blogs”. Save the changes.

To change the URL with which you will be accessing the WordPress script, login your cPanel and find the phpMyAdmin tool. Navigate to the databases which your website uses and find the table called wp_options (the wp_ prefix is the default one, it might be different if you have chosen another prefix upon installation of [...]

You may easily install the WordPress Multi User script using the Softaculous auto-installer. For that purpose, login your cPanel and find the Softaculous auto-installer. From the list of applications find WordPress and click the “install” tab. Fill the following fields:   -        install directory -        admin username -        admin password   Check the mark for [...]

To configure your WordPress to work with short/SEF URL’s we suggest following the instructions provided on the official WordPress website. These instructions could be found here:   http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress

To configure your WordPress to work with SSL certificate, login the admin area of your WordPress website. Navigate to the “Settings” category, “General” menu. Change the “WordPress Adress (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” from” http://yourdomain.com to https://yourdomain.com Where you should change “yourdomain.com” with the actual domain.

The upgrade process of the WordPress is quite simple and automatic. However before initiating the upgrade, make sure you have created a backup of your website files and database.   Once you have a backup of your website, login the dashboard and disable all the plugins which your website currently uses. This is important, as [...]

The installation of the WordPress templates is quite simple. To install new templates for your WordPress website login to your WordPress website’s administration area. From the left side menu find the “Appearance” category and select the “Themes” menu and the “Install Themes” tab. From there, you have the following options:    search for new templates [...]

To change your WordPress admin password, login the wp-admin area of your website. From the top right corner on the screen click the “Howdy username” sign and then “Edit My Profile”. In the new window scroll to the bottom of the page and find the field with name “New Password” and enter the new password [...]

The installation of the WordPress pluings is quite simple. To install new plugins for your WordPress website login to your WordPress website’s administration area. From the left side menu, find the “Plugins” category and select the “Add New” menu. From there, you have the following options:   search for new plugin upload a plugin zip [...]

The Word press configuration file could be easily edited with a text editor by your choice. However it is recommended to always create a backup of your WordPress configuration file before editing it.

The WordPress configuration is located in the directory where the script has been installed. The name of the file is wp-config.php.

For additional information about the WordPress script it is always recommended to check the official documentation for the script. It could be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page   You may also share information with other WordPress users in the WordPress forums, which could be found at: http://wordpress.org/support/   If you would like to be informed about the [...]

The WordPress script has three major requirements which are:   php version 5.2.4 or higer  MySQL version 5.0 or higher  mod_rewrite enabled   All TMDHosting servers are compatible with these requirements.

To manually install the WordPress script, first you will need to download the latest version of the script. It could be found on the official WordPress website here:   http://wordpress.org/download/   Upload the WordPress files using your cPanel -> File Manager or your favorite FTP client. If you would like to have the WordPress script [...]

You may easily install WordPress with a few clicks using the Softaculous auto-installer. Simply login to your cPanel and navigate to the Softaculous auto-installer. Find the WordPress script from the list of script and click the „install“ tab. Fill in the fields for „Install directory“, „Admin Username“ and „Password“. Click the install button. That’s it, [...]

WordPress is one of the most commonly used open source content management system for creating blog websites. Currently there are more than 1 million websites using the WordPress It has many plugins and templates which will allow you to customize the functionality and outlook of your website.