Stop Brute Force WordPress Login Attempts with Fail2Ban
March 5th, 2013
WordPress is the most popular content management system for websites and as a result it attracts a lot of automated attempts at brute force login. Blocking such bots before they get very far is the topic of this post.
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Order Form with Contact Form 7
December 27th, 2012A contact form can serve as a simple order form for your products or services. Contact Form 7 together with a few other WordPress plugins can be used to create just such an order form.
Captcha-less Hashcash spam protection for Contact Form 7
November 30th, 2012Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form plugin for WordPress. WP Hashcash is a javascript based captcha-less spam protection plugin for WordPress. Hashcash for Contact Form 7 is a plugin that I have coded that bridges WP Hashcash and Contact Form 7 allowing you to protect your contact form with a captcha-less spam prevention system.
Customizing WordPress Rewrite Rules
November 20th, 2012WordPress, with search engine friendly permalinks enabled, uses Apache mod_rewrite to redirect web page requests to index.php. From that point onwards WordPress uses its own internal rewrite rules to determine what content to display for a URL. In this post I take a look at how to customize WordPress’ internal rewrite rules.
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Fixing the WordPress Email Return-Path Header
October 27th, 2012Emails sent by WordPress can often end up in the spam folder because of a sub-optimal Return-Path email header. What does that mean and how do you fix it?
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