September 8, 2009
There have (unsurprisingly) been a lot of blog posts written in the last few days about WordPress security and what you can do to keep your blog safe from hackers. I'll be chucking my own twopennorth in shortly, but for now, I want to look at one of the recommendations in more detail: "get rid of the user called 'admin'". This is a pretty sensible piece of advice. On most WP installs, "admin"... Read more
April 19, 2009
Today I want to take a quick look at WordPress users: how to change how your name appears next to your posts, and how to add new users to your blog (and make sure they can't do anything you don't want them to). If you've got a brand new install of WordPress, you've probably just got one user, and that user is probably called something like "admin". Which is all very well for signing into the... Read more