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24 Must-Do Checks Before Launching Your WordPress Website

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Website development can often be a lengthy and arduous process, especially if you’re creating it for someone who doesn’t have a clear vision of what they want. That’s why the urge to rush a site launch can be so tempting. While some developers might think, “If I push it live, we can just work out the last remaining kinks afterwards,” that sort of logic can get you into trouble.

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Handling WordPress Security

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A WordPress security webinar with Chris Burgess

WordPress security is a challenge. WordPress is the biggest player in the content management system market, and is an undisputed player on the Internet stage. This makes the WordPress platform a target, and security on WordPress websites even more of an important subject. In this webinar, Chris Burgess discusses WordPress security and gives you an overview of concerns, suggestions, and tips for securing your WordPress installations and ensuring that you know how to deal with spam, malicious intrusions, plugins, and more!

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The Ultimate Guide to 404 Pages for WordPress

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Bad 404 pages are like trampolines for your WordPress site: Visitors who land on them are going to bounce. How you deal with 404s will determine whether visitors stick around or check out the competition when they end up on a page that WordPress can’t find. 404 errors aren’t unique to WordPress. The 404 message is the standard error code returned by a web server when a requested webpage can’t be located. Basically, a 404 means the server is working just fine, but the requested webpage is nowhere to be found.

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Privacy Checklist: 10 Tips for Protecting Visitors to Your WordPress Site

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Businesses of all sizes—bloggers, SMBs, eCommerce companies, large enterprises, and more—understand the importance of having a website. Without it, a business is relegated to the more time – and labor – intensive (and not to mention outdated) method of increasing brand recognition and converting leads through cold calling and word-of-mouth. Plus, if your brand doesn’t have a website, you’re relying on customer reviews on sites like Yelp, Glassdoor, social media, and others to dictate how consumers should feel about you. You don’t want to do that.

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MySQL and WordPress: Understanding How Databases Work

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WordPress uses MySQL, an open source database management system, to store and retrieve all of your website’s information, from the content of your posts and pages to your comments, usernames and passwords. If you need to visualize it, think of your site’s database as a filing cabinet and MySQL as the company that made it. MySQL is a popular choice of database for web applications – Joomla! and Drupal also use it, and according to Wikipedia lots of high-profile companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube use it, too.

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How to Hide Your WordPress Login Page From Hackers and Brute Force

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Running a WordPress website can feel like managing a magnet for malicious login attempts. Brute force attempts to log into WordPress are so common there’s a page in the Codex dedicated to the topic. There are many strategies for dealing with this problem, and the best strategy is to deploy multiple strategies. In this article, I’ll explain how I implement one of the simplest strategies: hiding your WordPress login page.

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How to Add Adults-Only Age Verification to Your WordPress Site – WPMU DEV

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Do you know who is visiting your website? And, more importantly, does the demographic of your visitors even matter? For some businesses and bloggers, that answer is a resounding: YES. If you’re reading this, you probably have (or need to implement) an age requirement restriction for visitors to your site. There are a variety of reasons for needing to restrict access to your content, but there are only a handful of ways you can go about enforcing this.

Source: How to Add Adults-Only Age Verification to Your WordPress Site

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WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

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Custom post types and taxonomies are what make WordPress a Content Management System (CMS), and not just a blogging platform. With them, you can add your own post types, which you can then display using targeted template files. You can also create custom taxonomies that let you use more than just categories and tags to classify your content.

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