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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 [...]

Video How-to: Install & Configure a WordPress Plugin

One of the great things about the WordPress blog platform is how adaptable it is. Need some special functionality? There's bound to be a plugin - an extension - that will [...]

Categories: blogging

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 6: Harden the Secure Shell (SSH) & Create a Firewall

Having set up our local-to-remote connection and tunnelled it, in this tutorial we'll add a final, cast-iron layer of security, so there. If you're following this series, you [...]

Categories: web development, web pages

Guvnr Gets Steroids – Pursuing The Holy Grail of Less HTTP Requests

An often overlooked blog or web site improvement is reducing HTTP requests. Good for page load, improved usability, SEO and ultimately for traffic. Normally I wouldn't bother [...]

Categories: web development

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 [...]

Categories: web development