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Excerpt: Getting hacked is a total bummer, right? Right. But you can stop it with this plugin — WordPress Firewall. It won't stop every determined hacker from zapping your blog — but it's definitely worth installing if you're maintaining more than a few blogs. After all, you simply can't upgrade every blog instantly every time a vulnerability is published for WordPress or any of the plugins you've got installed. So this plugin might buy you some much-needed time … and sanity. It investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks. Here is…

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Excerpt: … for spammers, anyway. Upgrading WordPress often might just help! On the other hand, you could still wake up and find out your blog looks like this after a zero-day attack — That's probably a bad thing. But, in fact, many of us in the blogosphere have enjoyed this particular problem. And it's not quite as much fun as the blue pill. In the worst case, it's not just spam, it's badware or viruses. And then Google won't want to cohabit with you ever again. Well, you're still alive, and you're sick of getting attacked. We are, too. So, at least…

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Excerpt: You like SEO and intuitive pagination controls? Well, we decided to release our SEO Pager control that we've been using for awhile over here anyway. So here's the scoop — This Wordpress plugin implements a multi-page customizable pager to replace the standard, boring WordPress "Earlier Posts" and "Newer Posts" links. This improves SEO as well as usability. In addition to this it presents some related SEO options. Its features include — * Set SEO-Pager to either a plain or boxed style. * No need to edit a stylesheet either! Just enter hex color value or name for border, background, text, and…

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Excerpt: WordPress is great. So are most other free and/or open-source applications. The only problem with these applications is that no matter how secure the other parts of your web site are, using such a popular application makes you an easy target for their widely circulated exploit scripts. There are lots of prying eyes on, say, WordPress. And exploiting popular open-source applications is interesting, because you get more bang for your buck. Upgrading helps, and of course we do it. But it still won't help for 0-day exploits, and it's not easy when you're managing…