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Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

Some of you will remember or first found this 'lil site off the back of a pretty well-known WordPress security blog post here, Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 7: Edit bashrc for User-Friendly Linux, plus System Updates

The bashrc file is where we create aliases to shortcut those long CLI commands, plus functions to improve usability. In this tutorial, as well as setting locale, performing a [...]

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Maintain Unmanaged VPS – Part 6: Backup a MySQL Database from the Terminal

This guide shows how to save a MySQL database using a terminal, with a simple syntax command. And faster than using phpMyAdmin, for sure. Just replace the db name, username and [...]

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Restart Previous Apps on Reboot

Often we need to reboot but find it annoying to have to reopen our work. Here's how to make your Ubuntu PC recall running programmes and load them when you restart the machine [...]

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The Fine Art of WP Upgrades. Wait up!

You click on the shiny upgrade button on your WP Dashboard, but then something is broken - a plugin, a function, whatnot. Easy tiger, not so fast .. A typical scenario:- The [...]

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