I just visited your blog. I noticed it was built with WordPress. How do you keep it safe from hackers? Ever since I got PR 5 last month – I’ve got dozens of hack attempts a minute.
@conroydave, Boston, MA
Tips from Matt on protecting your WordPress installation:
There may be times when you want to create a blog page or that looks different than a normal page. Or Perhaps you want to use WordPress to run your entire website but want the main page of your domain to look completely different than a typical blog. This is an easy way to customize WordPress that can be very easily accomplished by creating a custom WordPress page Template.
There are a lot of different options, and there isn’t a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.
Out of the box wordpress is configured like this
http://example.com?p=123
This really isn’t a permalink structure, it’s a parameter based format with “123″ being the post number. While all major search engines can crawl and index this it’s generally not an optimal setup. From an SEO perspective you miss the opportunity to give the search engines some keywords, and from a user experience you miss the opportunity to entice them with an information scent that they are on the right track. For example lets assume you were looking for hotels in Kentucky which URL gives you a clue you might find the information your wanted on the page: Read the rest of this entry »
