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A lot of sites are being hit by a recent SQL attack where codes are being injected to your site. This MySQL injection affects your permalinks by making them ineffective. As a result, your blog posts URLs will not work. We will show you how you can identify and fix this issue.

Here’s something we’ve learned after running WordPress blogs for over a decade: showing old comments at the top of your posts can make your site look dusty. Think about it. A new visitor lands on your blog and sees comments from 10 years ago. Not… Read More »

Do you want to display a list of all authors on your WordPress blog? It’s a feature that a lot of our readers with multi-author blogs ask us about. An author list will show at-a-glance who is writing for your blog and allow your visitors… Read More »

Every WordPress installation comes with the Akismet plugin pre-installed, but it’s not activated by default. So, many people often ask us what Akismet is and whether you need to activate it on your WordPress website. It is a spam filtration plugin for WordPress created by… Read More »

In this article we will share a way that you can use to allow your users to submit news or even posts to your WordPress site. You will get to moderate them like comments and approve the story that you choose to go live. You can even use Akismet for spam filter.

Hackers and other malicious actors often try to break into WordPress websites through the admin area. That’s why it’s so important to secure your WordPress admin. If you have a small team, then one good solution is to restrict admin access to only the IP… Read More »

Yesterday, WPBeginner was facing some hacker attack. It was users trying to reset the password, but thankfully they could not get the random password because the site is not using the default admin user. But nonetheless it was an annoying thing to deal with. Hackers kept trying to reset our password and we had to deal with it for six times until we added more security layers.

Most themes ignore this feature which might be a single most important feature that you should have in your themes. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can setup auto discovery for your WordPress RSS Feeds.

WordPress has released another security release as version 2.8.3. This version fixed problems that were left in 2.8.2 so upgrade now. This is a security release so the upgrade should not be optional.

We can see the number of comments made in our dashboard, but our advertisers cannot see that. If you have a page for advertisers, you want to add this number to give them one more reason to buy advertisement on your site. Specially when you are selling ads towards the comment area.