The way WordPress deals with user comments by default is far from ideal. Anyone can submit comments, and comment forms don’t have any spam protection.…
Category: Wordpress
Knowledgebase articles about WordPress, including WordPress Toolkit and WP-CLI.
How to replace the default WordPress cron
The default WordPress cron can be a bit of a resource hog. The script itself is useful; among others it checks if there are WordPress…
How to disable XML-RPC
Most attacks on WordPress websites target the wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php files. In this article I look at how you can protect the latter file.
How to change the default WordPress login URL
There are lots of things you can do to optimise your WordPress website and make it more secure. This article looks at changing the default…
How to create a WordPress user without access to the WordPress dashboard
If needed, you can manually add a WordPress user to your website’s database. That is not how you would normally create users – you can…
How to reset your WordPress user password
The easiest way to reset your WordPress password is via the “Lost your password?” link on the WordPress login page. However, that option doesn’t work…
WordPress debugging options in Toolkit
WordPress uses a handful of PHP constants that define how errors are handled. By default, PHP warnings, notices and errors are printed to different error_log…
Hardening WordPress using ToolKit
Toolkit includes nearly 20 different security measures you can apply. In this article I look at what the options do, and I will give some…
Cloning and staging WordPress websites using Toolkit
Perhaps the killing feature of Toolkit is its ability to easily create a development copy of your website. When you want to make changes to…
Making and restoring backups using Toolkit
Toolkit lets you quickly make a backup of a WordPress site, and you can use the same interface to restore a backup.