Monthly Archives: January 2010

Authentication Loop with .htaccess Protected Pages

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/28
DRAFT After trying out my .htaccess scheme to protect my WordPress installation I was running into an endless pop-up of authentication pop-ups. I searched around and found a post by DianeV on the WP forums: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/113881#post-546028 She links to a post she made back in 2007 (yikes) entitled: WordPress admin password protection 404 http://developedtraffic.com/2007/05/27/wordpress-admin-password-protection-404/ She [...]
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Installing WordPress Securely on DreamHost

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/26
DRAFT After my WordPress website was hacked into, I began to look into all the options and advice for setting it up securely. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress Step 1: Getting the Latest WordPress Version I like to use the shell for this since it saves on downloading it on one of my computers and then transferring it onto [...]
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My WordPress Installation Hacked on Netfirms

By Tiago Moreira | Published: 2010/01/24
DRAFT I was looking over some settings on my website earlier and I just happened to check on my Google Webmaster Tools account where I discovered that something was not quite right. Google’s site crawler was reporting that there were 24(?) unlinked pages on one of my WordPress pages. I clicked through to find that [...]
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