Today Entrecard will stop rewarding site owners for displaying the Entrecard widget at their web site 🙁 since only the person dropping will get credits as of now and not the blog too as it used to be in the good old days.

Do you got WordPress as blogging or CMS (Content Management System) as we do and would like to be sure that your installation is secure? WordPress itself is extremely safe and not like for example phpBB full of security holes that can be exploited by hackers, but sometimes even the …

As a follow up on yesterdays post about Akismet and how it’s not stopping spam as effective as it used to I’ve counted the spam comments we’ve received in 3 of our blogs since the 10th of October 2008. On the graph you can see 3 major “incidents” where the …

Most of you already know about the WordPress plugin Akismet and you may also laready use it to stop spam in your WordPress blog. But recently we’ve discovered that the plugin is not working as good as it used to. When we started using the plugin it stopped 100% of …

cPanel is one of the best control panels I know and my company Xavier Media is using it for most of our own hosting accounts. But as always a control panel (or for that fact any software) is not more secure then the users using them. Therefore you must make …

WordPress has just released a new upgrade of the self-hosted version of WordPress. This time it contains a security upgrade which will make it harder for hackers to gain access to your WordPress installation via a resently found security hole. If you allow open registrations on your blog it’s possible …

There’s a new version of WordPress available (version 2.6.1). But if you’re happy with version 2.6 and it’s doing its job, then you don’t have to upgrade according to the WordPress blog: If you’re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 …

The latest version of WordPress has been released so hurry up and download the new version as soon as possible before you get hacked. When new versions of the softwares you use are released you should upgrade as soon as possible even if there are no immediate threats.

Most of us have just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 when it’s now time for another upgrade. This time it’s a more urgent upgrade since it includes a security fix and about 70 bug fixes: We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not …