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On Alert: Signs that Your WordPress Site Has Been Hacked

Byte Technology

Many WordPress site owners and administrators have no doubt experienced an unease or wariness at one point or another when it seems that something just isn’t right with their site. Chances are that if you see this or other problems, your site has been hacked or otherwise compromised.

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3 Quick Tips for a Better Nonprofit Website Aesthetic

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If your site looks professional and inviting, users will have a better browsing experience and be more likely to return. If you bought a bottle of Coca-Cola, for example, its red-and-white label and Spencerian script logo would let you know what kind of flavor and quality you could expect from the beverage inside. Color palette.

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Safe by Design: How to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Byte Technology

One of the great things about WordPress is the massive amounts of plugins—programs that add functionality options to your site—are available, most of them free. However, if you don’t stay on top of updates you won’t get the patches and your site becomes vulnerable to nefarious hackers looking to steal data or just cause mayhem.

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Fact versus Fiction: A Q & A on WordPress Plugins

Byte Technology

When it comes to WordPress sites, designers and admins—when asked what is one of the most confusing aspects of the platform—will most likely put “plugins” somewhere on their list. Indeed, plugins are fantastic and, in many cases, a must-have when working on a WordPress site. Q: Can WordPress plugins really affect my sites load time?

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Cybersecurity strategies for nonprofit websites

NTEN

Grant users permission to read, write or execute only the files or resources necessary to do their jobs. A WAF protects against cross-site forgery, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and SQL injection attacks. Limit user access. Back up your website. Website data needs to be protected by backup software.

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Understanding the Importance of XML Sitemaps for Website SEO

Byte Technology

And yet far too many sites fall short in attracting the wide audience a website owner or administrator desires due to the lack of a proper site map. And in the end this means that your site will appear much more favorably in search engine results when someone is seeking a topic for which your site is relevant.

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Amazon S3 for web server backup

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We’ve been using it for “offsite&# backup for drupal sites for a while now. We have a script going which runs by cron daily to do the backups. We started using S3fs as a way to mount an S3 bucket in the filesystem, then just copy the files to S3. One of the scripts we’ve use is here. (We

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