I got hacked – TWICE

Woke up the other day to find that all the WordPress blogs on one of my hosting accounts had been hacked. So this post is about how I fixed the security problem and how to protect your blog.

Usually the first thing I do in the mornings is walk around the top of the mountain, but I’d been a bit freaked out by a big brown snake the day before, so I decided to give walking a miss.

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I don’t know what type of snake it was because quite a few are brown, but I do know that some of the snakes around here always make World’s Top 10 Deadliest Snake lists. So if I see one I’m off in the other direction. Which in this case was straight back home. Yep I’m a coward.

And I’m scared of really rich beautiful women too. And mayonnaise :)

Don’t ask about the mayonnaise. It’s a long story involving spiteful aunts, priests, and choirboys and I’m not about to tell it here. Well not today anyhow :)

So back to the hacking, and WordPress security and what to do about it. Continue reading

Revamping my sites

I’ve decided to update the look (and functionality) of most of my sites for 2009.

So what you’re looking at right now is just a work in progress, and might change a few times over the next week.

I’m moving everything, except a number of my mini sites, to WordPress, and intend using the same theme on all of them. It’s a management thing. I’ve got a lot of niche sites, and looking after them takes too many man hours. If all sites are set up the same – same theme, plugins, modifications, etc, it should make things easier. Continue reading

PLRpro and residual income

By far the best source of PLR material (in my opinion) is PLRpro run by Australians Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay.

They’re closing their doors to new members for 3 months and when they reopen the price will double.

If you get in today though, you’ll be “grandfathered” in and you will get the new stuff at the current low price.

BTW, during the shutdown, current members and people who join today, will still get the regular as clockwork great content.

Plus get all the new stuff when it’s ready.

The private label rights content that Daniel and Marc provide is extremely good value, and they’ve always worked very hard to keep their members happy. And the quality is the best private label writing I’ve ever seen…the Rolls Royce of PLR :)

Others agree. In fact, Daniel says that Read more