Life is great, you have your very own Wordpress site.  Your own soapbox to stand on and rant to the world!  Then one day your hosting provider gives you a tragic new, 'Your site has been hacked!'   Your whole world is crushed, your privacy on your public facing blog is gone! So your Wordpress site got hacked, now what? First things first, be calm don't make any harsh decisions.  Seriously, your first instinct will be to delete the site right away.  Don't do that, you have a great advantage right now.  The hacker probably doesn't know that you know yet. ...

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Everybody Plays Guitar, few play well!

Wordpress or WP as I call it went viral long ago, with 54% or all CMS systems using WP it's obvious it's not a fad.  But with that many people using the code, you also have lots of people now vulnerable to a whole slew of attacks.  Because Wordpress is so easy to use, many people create quick blogs without putting very much time into thinking about security. This is true not only of the people setting up the WP sites but also the people creating plugins and themes.  As I look through WP plugins...

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