For normal WordPress operations, such as posting blog posts, uploading media files, posting comments, creating new WordPress users and installing WordPress plugins, the MySQL database user only needs data read and data write privileges to the MySQL database; SELECT,...
WordPress makes the experience of keeping plugins and the core installation an easy job and that goes a long way to making it one of the most popular Content Management Systems. From the Admin Dashboard you can see how many updates there are and are given links to...
Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP...
Last week a large scale, brute-force attack started targeting the default WordPress login pages of sites around the world. A brute-force attack is when an automated program or script, sometimes called a bot, tries to guess your password by repeatedly attempting to log...
The installation of WordPress is simple and straightforward. Really. So I’m not going to detail the installation process, which is well documented here. However, the permalink feature does not work out of the box on a standard CentOs 5 distribution. Some changes have...
