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Joomla 2.5 Release: New Features in Joomla! 2.5

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:07 +0000

Joomla 2.5 is out!

With the release of Joomla! 2.5, the user community has placed a large emphasis on making the CMS installation and updates management process as simple and straightforward as possible.

This will allow users to more easily and frequently migrate to the latest version of Joomla!, and take advantage of all the security benefits associated with running the newest code. We think Joomla! users around the world will really embrace this new process.

Joomla! 2.5 Released with Extra Features and Easy Updates

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announces the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5. Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes multi-database support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server. Previous versions of Joomla were compatible exclusively with MySQL databases.

“Multi-database support is a huge step forward for Joomla, which is already powering more than 1.6 million websites worldwide. It ensures companies and organization, both large and small, will save even more money and time by adopting Joomla,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a non-profit created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. “No longer will Joomla developers be tied down to a particular database or have to spend more money and time integrating other software to get Joomla to communicate with their database. This enhances Joomla’s scalability immensely.”

Other key features in Joomla 2.5 includes:

Automatic notification when a Joomla or extension update is available. When logged into the control panel, site administrators will instantly have access to new notification buttons that allows them to see and act on the latest updates. In addition to updates for the Joomla CMS, a second button offers third party extension notification updates.
A better natural language search engine to the Joomla core. Complete with auto-completion and stemming (for example if you type “running” in a search field you also see run), it is faster and more versatile than the standard search.

“We literally received thousands of pieces of input at ideas.joomla.org into what functionality should be added to Joomla 2.5, and overwhelmingly enhanced notifications and more elegant search topped the list,” said Mark Dexter of the Joomla Production Leadership Team. “In fact, the automatic notification for core and extension updates received the most votes for a feature that people wanted in 2.5. But we didn’t stop with just those two. Joomla 2.5 is a major overhaul with more than 24 new features that we have highlighted atjoom.la/25features.”

Joomla 2.5 adheres to Joomla’s newly-adopted six-month release cycle that began with the previous Joomla CMS release of Joomla 1.7 in July, 2011. Downloading the latest version of Joomla is the best way to ensure organizational and personal security needs are being met since it will have the most recent updates to protect against the latest security threats.

Joomla 2.5 is truly a collaborative community-driven software project developed with the feedback gathered from more than 2.5 million Joomla forum posts, 540,000 Joomla forum members and data from more than 8,800 Joomla extensions. To download Joomla 2.5, go to http://www.joomla.org/download.html.

What’s new in Joomla! 2.5?

When you already upgraded your site from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 1.7 in 2011 you probably use all the new features introduced with Joomla! 1.6 and 1.7. When you scroll down and read the list of new features compared to Joomla! 1.5 then you realize that 2011 was a very interesting year for Joomla!.

But let’s have a closer look on the new features for Joomla! 2.5.

New Features in Joomla! 2.5

The shiny new Joomla! Platform

The Joomla Platform Version 11.3 is now the base of the CMS.
That means many more possibilities for third party developers e.g. image manipulation with the JImageclass and generation of HTML tables with the JGrid class. A new version of the JavaScript library MooToolsis used (1.4). If you don’t know what Joomla! platform is about, read Write your own App using Joomla! Platform and the official annoucement of the Joomla Platform release.

Find more content with Smart Search

Search is “reinvented” in Joomla! 2.5 with Finder. The new finder component works with a search index (Figure 1).

Finder pre-searches your content. Search results are scored dynamically based on the context and frequency of search terms. The most relevant content will always be listed at the top of the results. It suggests alternative phrases (Figure 2) and its pluggable adapter system allows to install new search adapters which provide support for standard Joomla! content and many other types of documents. Custom search filters allows you to provide contextual searching when your visitor is looking at particular sections of your Web site.

Spread Joomla! to more Platforms by using more Databases

With Joomla! 2.5 it will be possible to run Joomla! on MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Drivers for PostgreSQL and Oracle seems to be very near (Getting Ready for Multi-Database Support).

Better Choices for Offline Mode

You can user the default offline message, disable it or create a customized message. Additionally you can select an image for the offline mode page (Figure 3). You have even a possibility to set the site to offline mode during installation so no unauthorized people can see it before you want them to.

User registrations with CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA plugin using the reCAPTCHA service can be enabled (Figure 4). Once you sign up for free with reCAPTCHA and enter your keys, you can enable CAPTCHA on new user registrations. It could also be used by other extensions needing CAPTCHA.

Easier handling for simple Layouts

You can now attach an image for the intro text to use in blog and featured layouts, an image for the full article text and up to three links for the full
article layout. This means that your content creators won’t have to fuss with an image in the text and your article format will be cleaner and more consistent.

Mobile

The Beez core template comes with mobile enhancements.

Multilanguage

You can override the default language strings in a new manager in the backend (Figure 5).

User Notes

User Notes can be attach notes to users as well as assign tracking dates to the users. You can have multiple notes per user and the notes can be in different categories (Figure 6).

Clean Up

Filtering for Categories in Article Manager

That is simply useful. Since Joomla! 1.6 it was possible to filter categories in the article manager, but you did not see the articles of the subcategories. Now the filter logic include the articles of the subcategories too.

Linking New Menus with a Module

In Joomla! 2.5 modules are NOT automatically created for each new menu type. This is not a bug, it’s a feature
Not everyone used the core menu module, but used instead ones from a custom template or third party module. For that reason, menus did not automatically create a module in 1.6/1.7. This change confused people and created extra work. In Joomla 2.5, if there is no module associated with the menu, there is a link showing in the Menu Manager that you can click that will take you directly into a new module that you can create. You then have the choice of saving this standard menu module or cancelling out and using a different menu module.

Custom Text Filters are moved to the global configuration. They are filtering content for black and white listed tags based on your configuration and on role permission.

You can now choose to have the administrator get a new message when a user creates an account. This is useful when the New User Account Notification is set to Self. In that case the user receives after an email after registration with an activation link (Figure 7). After clicking that link the account is activated.

The extensive options in “Select a Menu Item Type” are not loaded unless you need them.

New Features compared to Joomla! 1.5

In comparison to Joomla! 1.5 the differences are huge and there is a long list of features and improvements.

Here is a list of the most important changes in Joomla 1.6 and 1.7

There will no longer be any sections. Categories can be nested as deeply as you would like
The access concept is totally rebuilt.
The existing user groups used in Joomla! 1.5 are still the same in Joomla! 2.5 but they can be enhanced and renamed. Unlimited access levels can also be defined there. User groups can be assigned to access levels and different groups can then be assigned to various access levels.
Multiprocessing
Copy and move operations, and the allocation of access levels can now be done in a batch process
Updates per mouse click
A simple feature. The system detects available updates and initiates them by clicking on the corresponding button.
Templates
There have been many changes in the area of templates. There are now two administrator templates and three website templates.
Template styles
Sometimes you may want to display a template with different options. You may want to create a page with a red background and another page with a blue one. Therefore, you will need template styles. Create as many versions (styles) of a template with different settings as you like and assign them to a menu link.
Template layouts
Sometimes you may want to display only the output of a component or a module in a different layout without hacking the template. That’s possible with template layouts.
Consistent user interface
A successful example is the general save dialogue.
Save: content will be saved, you remain in editing mode
Save & Close: content will be saved, you leave the editing mode
Save & New: content will be saved; a new, empty editing mask appears
Save as copy: content will be saved as a copy, you remain in the editing mask
Minimum requirements
The minimum requirements regarding your server environment and concerning your visitors’ web browsers have increased.
Browser: Internet Explorer, version 7 or higher, Firefox, version 3 or higher, Safari, version 4 or higher
Server: PHP: minimum version PHP 5.2.4, MySQL: minimum version 5.04
Legacy Mode
The legacy mode from Joomla! 1.5 is no longer necessary. Legacy mode allowed the execution of components originally developed for Joomla 1.0, which have ‘only’ been adapted to Joomla! 1.5. The procedure of adapting old components is offset by the development of ‘native’ Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5 components, which use the Joomla! Framework.
Search engine optimization
- You can now use unicode in URLs, which means you may now use special characters like ‘ö’ and ‘ä’ or Arabic or Hebrew characters in the URL.
- You can allocate meta text and keywords to categories.
- A title of a site will be displayed following the name of the website in the browser.
Modules can be published time-controlled. The assignment options to menu items have been extended.
Multilingualism
Joomla! core now offers the possibility to create articles, categories and modules in several languages. With the new language switcher plug-in module you can filter the entire site for the selected language.
New editor
Code Mirror is the new editor, which is supplied in addition to TinyMCE. It is not a WYSIWYG editor but offers a convenient way to work with ‘code-like’ content, which will be displayed in colour and a structured way.
Components
- The new redirect component enables redirections to URLs in order to avoid ’404 not found’ errors.
- The new search component provides an overview of the searched keywords and display results.
- The survey component has been eliminated.
New Release Cycle
Every 18 months, a long term release of Joomla! will appear.
Introduction of the Joomla! platform
Joomla! consists of two parts
- the Joomla! platform
- the Joomla! content management system

There are many more very nice little features like the possibility to place a background image into a module or to display articles with page breaks in a tab or slider layout.

Download

New Installations: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.0 (Full package) »

Update Package: Click here to download Joomla 2.5.0 (Update package) »

IT User Groups and Communities in the Philippines

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:44:18 +0000

There are so many tech communities in Philippines, many of them involving developers, designers, open source, mobile and start-ups.

We’ll list some tech communities here in Philippines, Getting involved in communities like this is an important factor in your success. So, pick one (or more) and get involved!

Developers
NullPointer
Pinoy Python Users
Google Technology Users Group Philippines
Philippine Ruby Users Group (PRUG/PhRUG)
Developers Connect (DevCon)
PHP User-Group Philippines
Drupal Philippines
Joomla Philippines
Philippine Groovy/Grails Users Group
PinoyJUG
Metro Manila Cloud Web Developer Group
Philippine .NET Users Group (PHINUG)
International Game Developers Association (IGDA Manila)

Designers
Philippine Web Designers Organization
Adobe User Group Philippines
Phlashers – Philippine Flash ActionScripters
Design Filipino
Manila Web Design
Graphika Manila
Philippine Graphic Design Awards
Graphikarista

Technology (Others)
Filipino Hackers Community
Philippines Hacker Conference
Mozilla Philippines
Phililippine Mac Users Group
Scrum and Agile User Group Philippines
Microsoft Philippines Users Group
Philippine SQL Server Users Group (PHISSUG)
Philippine Linux Windows Users Group (PH-LWUG)
Philippine I.T. Organization
TechTalks from Cebu (and Beyond)

Open Source
Software Freedom Day Philippines (SFD.PH)
Ubuntu Team Philippines
Asterisk Philippines Users Group
LAMP Pilipinas
Philippine Linux Users Group

Startups
Roofcamp
Startup Philippines
Philippine Tech Startups Meetup Group
Startup Weekend Manila

Mobile
Philippine Adroid Community (PHAC)
PinoyDroid
Philippine Mobile Developers
Philippine Android Developers Group
JuAndroid
Manila App Innovators
Filipino iPhone Community (apple.i.ph)
MobileMonday Manila (MoMoManila)
Philippine Blackberry Developer Group (PinoyBBdev)
Globe Labs

FROM: http://webgeekph.com/resources/tech-user-groups-in-the-philippines/

Best Free PrestaShop Themes

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:56:23 +0000

Free PrestaShop Themes

Please scroll down and you’ll find 15 Free PrestaShop Themes. Each of them is designed in its own color and style. At the same, whatever Free PrestaShop Theme you choose it will easily match a PrestaShop powered online store.

It should be also mentioned that the following PrestaShop Templates come from different template providers. So you can choose which company is the best to meet your needs.

Free PrestaShop Theme by Template Monster

Rumah Batik PrestaShop Theme

Clean and Simple PrestaShop Theme

Angela Sweet PrestaShop Theme

Moon PrestaShop Theme

2049 PrestaShop Theme

Fennecs PrestaShop Theme

Atchworks PrestaShop Theme

RGB Prestashop Theme

Earth PrestaShop Theme

Black PrestaShop Theme

Red PrestaShop Theme

Black and White PrestaShop Theme

Uppercase PrestaShop Theme

iNove Prestashop theme

Premium PrestaShop Themes

You may say that there are more than 15 Free PrestaShop Themes on the net and of course you are right, but we want to showcase only the best designs in this niche; the ones that are free to download, but still beautiful and of high quality.

Also, we encourage you to comment this post and share more links to Free PrestaShop Themes.

If you would like to compare the free designs with the premium ones, please check out thePrestaShop Themes that are offered by TemplateMonster.

Free Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:28:45 +0000

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating previews, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and data as you need. All layers are vectorized, allowing you to scale up the GUI without loss of quality. The mock-up is 100% pixel-accurate, it has 4 viewing modes (default wall, wireframe wall, default tab, wireframe tab), all layers labeled and grouped. Smart guides are included. The PSD is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS3+.

With every update Facebook performs to its fan page design, Hike reproduces it 24 hours later and updates its download link with the latest version. The main idea behind this PSD was to provide all designers and agencies with a useful tool that will improvs their daily workflow when it comes to preparing Facebook-related previews for their clients or internal presentations. As usual, the goodie is absolutely free to use in private and commercial projects.

Download the PSD for free!

You can use the freebie for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the file as you wish.

large preview (.png, 0,09 Mb)
download the .zip-package (.zip, 2.1 Mb)
official download from the designer’s site (.zip, 2.1 Mb, will be regularly updated)
release post on designer’s website

Features

100% pixel-accurate
4 viewing modes (default wall, wireframe wall, default tab, wireframe tab)
Fully vectorized
Limitless scaling
All layers labeled
Smartly grouped
Completely editable
Includes smart guides
CS3+ compatible
Always up to date

Previews

Tab wireframe (large preview)

Default wall (large preview)

Wall wireframe (large preview)

Layer Pallett (large preview)

Nuffnang Blog Awards, Here I Come

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:29:35 +0000

Yehey !!! Nuffnang.com is giving you the chance to win an invite to the Blog Awards, simply by participating in the blogging contest as outlined below! The contest starts 24 October 2011 and ends 11.59 pm, 11 November 2011.

Two years ago, the best of the best in the blogosphere were celebrated with the inaugural Asia-Pacific Blog Awards, and now, Nuffnang is honoured to be bringing the regional awards ceremony back, this time to Malaysian shores!

Come December 2011, 500 bloggers and guests from all over the Asia-Pacific region will once again take to the red carpet, and be treated to a night of fine dining and brilliant entertainment in Kuala Lumpur, the bustling metropolitan capital of Malaysia. Aside from being honoured for their hard work and contribution to the blogosphere, they will also get the opportunity to tour the city and experience the unique Malaysian culture for themselves.

3 reasons why I want to attend the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011.!!!

1. See all the Bloggers In ASIA

2. Travel to Malaysia

3. Once in A Lifetime Experience ………………..yes// hope I can Attend here…

Come 16 December 2011, 500 bloggers from around the Asia-Pacific region will flock to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 in Putrajaya Marriott. The Awards aims to not only honour the region’s best bloggers, but also to bring together blogger communities from across Asia-Pacific. The Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards is brought to you by Volkswagen Malaysia and Putrajaya Marriott.

Applied jQuery: Develop and Design

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:37:01 +0000

Book Description

Applied jQuery teaches readers how to quickly start writing application interfaces. The beautifully designed book offers practical techniques and provides lots of real-world advice and guidance. The Author, Jay Blanchard, has practical experience working in the field and wastes no time getting to the instruction, taking the reader from a beginner to a proficient interface programmer by the end of the book.

Today’s Web developers are are expected to be well versed in many different technologies. While it is good to have a shelf full of books that focus on single technologies, having a book that shows developers how to combine these technologies is key. This book takes the reader beyond the fundamental mechanics of individual technologies to illustrate the value and power of combining jQuery and PHP with templates and layouts handled by HTML and CSS. Beginning to intermediate web developers designing and developing web application interfaces and web sites will learn how to blend these ingredient technologies, as well as how to secure jQuery.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing jQuery
Chapter 2. Working with Events
Chapter 3. Making Forms Pop
Chapter 4. Being Effective with AJAX
Chapter 5. Applying jQuery Widgets
Chapter 6. Creating Application Interfaces

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Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:57:27 +0000

Book Description

A complete lifecycle guide to planning and building a site with Drupal Drupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to plan. Whether you are building with Drupal 6 or 7, this book details the steps necessary to plan your site so you can make informed decisions before you start to build.

Explains how to define the scope of your project
Shows you how to create a design plan taking into consideration how Drupal works
Helps you make informed decisions regarding development methodologies, environments, standards, and site security
Reviews ways to assess the use of existing and/or custom Drupal modules
Teaches you how to avoid common pitfalls that can impact a successful site launch
Walks you through preparing for post-launch site maintenance and management tasks
Details incorporating the nature of open source systems into your management strategies
Identifies ways to interact with members of the Drupal community

The processes and techniques provided in this book will empower you to create a successful and sustainable site with Drupal.

From the Back Cover
Plan and execute each phase of your Drupal website

Drupal enables you to build a wide variety of websites quickly and easily, from simple blog sites to complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for your website, you need to plan. With this comprehensive book, Drupal expert Cindy McCourt walks you through planning your Drupal site, using optimal methods for leveraging the power and flexibility of the Drupal framework. Regardless of your level of experience working with Drupal, this guide provides you with a series of analyses and tasks from a Drupal perspective that allows you to start thinking in Drupal and helps you plan each phase of your site’s lifecycle.

Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites:

Presents an overview of a site’s lifecycle and details where planning fits in
Provides insights into various development methodologies and management practices that are frequently used on a Drupal project
Helps you identify and analyze what your site needs in order to achieve its objectives
Shows you how to translate your requirements into a visual representation of your site
Covers many of the non-development tasks that need to beconsidered for a successful site launch
Explores developing your Drupal site and shares tips for maintaining and supporting it

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HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:14:19 +0000

Klaus Förster, Bernd Öggl, “HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers”
Add ison | 2011 | ISBN: 0321772741 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers, two pioneering web developers provide a comprehensive guide to HTML5’s powerful new elements and techniques through compact, practical, easy-to-understand examples. You’ll discover just how much you can do with HTML5—from programming audio/video playback to integrating geographical data into pages and applications.

This concise, friendly reference is packed with tips, tricks, and samples for making the most of HTML5 with JavaScript and the DOM. The authors present “pure HTML5” examples that are supported by browsers right now, and they share realistic insights into the challenges of leading-edge HTML5 development. All examples are available for download, with links to web resources for new information and specification updates. Topics covered include
Browser support: What you can (and can’t) do with HTML5 today
HTML5 document structure and semantics
Intelligent forms, including new input types, elements, and client-side validation
The “video” and “audio” elements, and scripting media solutions
Advanced graphics with Canvas and SVG
Geolocation in the browser, including location tracking via Google Maps
Web storage, offline web applications, WebSockets,and Web Workers
Embedding sematic markup with Microdata and the Microdata DOM API
Implementing drag-and-drop with the “draggable” attribute
New global attributes: “data-*,” “hidden,” “contenteditable,” “spellcheck,” and more

If you’re a web developer or designer with at least basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, this book is all you need to masterHTML5—and get to the cutting edge of web development.

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HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:06:06 +0000

HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

In HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers, two pioneering web developers provide a comprehensive guide to HTML5’s powerful new elements and techniques through compact, practical, easy-to-understand examples. You’ll discover just how much you can do with HTML5 from programming audio/video playback to integrating geographical data into pages and applications.

If you’re a web developer or designer with at least basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, this book is all you need to masterHTML5 and get to the cutting edge of web development.

Topics covered include:

Browser support: What you can (and can’t) do with HTML5 today
HTML5 document structure and semantics
Intelligent forms, including new input types, elements, and client-side validation
The “video” and “audio” elements, and scripting media solutions
Advanced graphics with Canvas and SVG
Geolocation in the browser, including location tracking via Google Maps
Web storage, offline web applications, WebSockets,and Web Workers
Embedding sematic markup with Microdata and the Microdata DOM API
Implementing drag-and-drop with the “draggable” attribute
New global attributes: “data-*,” “hidden,” “contenteditable,” “spellcheck,” and more
If you’re a web developer or designer with at least basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, this book is all you need to masterHTML5 and get to the cutting edge of web development.

Author Bios

Klaus Förster

Klaus Förster, an open source enthusiast, works at the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has attended numerous SVG Open conferences as speaker, reviewer, and workshop leader, and has contributed SVG modules to the free Software projects PostGIS, GRASS GIS, and SpatiaLite.

Bernd Öggl

Bernd Öggl, lecturer and system administrator at the University of Innsbruck, is the coauthor of a book on PHP and MySQL and has many years of experience in programming web applications.

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WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:23:46 +0000

WordPress 3 Ultimate Security

Most likely – today – some hacker tried to crack your WordPress site, its data and content – maybe once but, with automated tools, very likely dozens or hundreds of times. There’s no silver bullet but if you want to cut the odds of a successful attack from practically inevitable to practically zero, read this book.

WordPress 3 Ultimate Security shows you how to hack your site before someone else does. You’ll uncover its weaknesses before sealing them off, securing your content and your day-to-day local-to-remote editorial process. This is more than some “10 Tips …” guide. It’s ultimate protection – because that’s what you need.

Survey your network, using the insight from this book to scan for and seal the holes before galvanizing the network with a rack of cool tools. Solid!

The WordPress platform is only as safe as the weakest network link, administrator discipline, and your security knowledge. We’ll cover the bases, underpinning your working process from any location, containing content, locking down the platform, your web files, the database, and the server. With that done, your ongoing security is infinitely more manageable.

Covering deep-set security yet enjoyable to read, WordPress 3 Ultimate Security will multiply your understanding and fortify your site.

This is an essential guide to securing your WordPress site and content, which shows what to do locally, wirelessly, server-side, and with the application to keep the bad guys out.

What you will learn from this book :

Hack or be hacked! Learn the mind-set, how attackers work, the methods they employ and how to use those to secure WordPress
Work safely from anywhere, using the latest antimalware tools on your PC and being secure even on infected shared machines
Understand the dangers of wireless connections, maximize your router’s protection and know how to safely use public WiFi hotspots
Learn about and use the toughest internet protocols to connect to your server, site, and files with military-strength encryption
Find out how to hide your Dashboard and any other sensitive web files by using code, plugins, and Apache modules
Carry out dozens of WordPress security tasks using either plugins or code and utilizing either a control panel or terminal
Keep tabs on content, find out who is using it, and how to enforce your copyright (and safeguard your SEO)
Know the risks with control panels and interfaces like phpMyAdmin, learning how to solidify them or completely hide them from attackers
Recover from a WordPress disaster, properly diagnosing the underlying cause of the problem so that it won’t be repeated
Consider the security differences between web hosting types and know what kind of security questions to ask a shared host
Grasp key Linux concepts like file ownership and permissions, using the terminal to maximize security options (for shared hosting too)
Reinforce the server with – for starters – an encrypted connection, network, firewall, and kernel hardening and with a web application firewall

Approach
This is a comprehensive essential guide to WordPress security written in a light style, which converts learning a really serious topic to an enjoyable read. It is packed with copy-paste solutions to security to suit all levels of security know-how.

Who this book is written for
Just as WordPress is used by a broad spectrum of website owners, with varying degrees of security know-how, so WordPress 3 Ultimate Security is written to be understood by security novices and web professionals alike. From site and server owners and administrators to members of their contributing team, this essential A to Z reference takes a complex and, let’s face it, frankly dull subject and makes it accessible, encouraging, and sometimes even fun. Even if you are a total newbie to security, you can transform an insecure site into an iron-clad fortress, safeguarding your site users, your content and, sooner or later, your stress level.

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