As we discussed in my last post, there are people confused by whether WordPress is still Safe. It is, the WordPress software is well maintained and has a loyal community supporting it.
However, from time to time, a plugin or a theme (or a file within a theme) gives WordPress a bad reputation.
I wanted to talk a little about two examples:
A Good Plugin Turns ROTTEN: Social Media Widget Plugin
There was a particular plugin that went bad. The name of it is ‘Social Media Widget’  (social-media-widget) Plugin – it does not mean …

Yes, WordPress is still safe, but:
The two best things you can always do to protect your site are:

Be Proactive – Make sure everything on your site is secure, backed up and updated
Be Creative – Create super strong, crazy long login access: meaning your username and password!

If you have been reading the news, you may have heard there is an ‘orchestrated attack’ on WordPress sites.
Over the last few days, I have received a lot of emails from clients asking about this issue, what it means and what they can do.
Several people …

As long as I can remember, I wanted to write. It didn’t matter who was gonna read it.  To me, it was more important to get my thoughts down.
But I can appreciate those of you who don’t enjoy the idea of writing. 
Sometimes life gets so busy, I find I haven’t made time to write on my own blog.
Yet, I know people are still reading and benefiting from things I’ve written in the past.
I know this, because I am fortunate enough to have them tell me.
And, that is the beauty …

A friend pointed me to an article in the New York Times entitled “Facebook’s False Faces Undermine Its Credibility“.
It talks about how Fake Friends on Facebook could hurt Your Business, and has altered Facebook’s reputation.
The author – Somini Sengupta – looked at these false accounts from many different perspectives. Here are a few points, but you should read the whole article, to evaluate your online friends’ influence on your own company’s reputation.

Facebook has ‘said that of its 855 million active users, 8.7 percent, or 83 million, were duplicates, false …

Howdy Campers:
WordCamp Denver 2012 was this past weekend and I had the opportunity of doing a presentation called A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress for Non-coders.
We had a lot of fun at the event and there were a bunch of great presentations.  If you didn’t make it, you can go over to WordCamp Denver’s site, to download the slides to any of the speakers’ presentations.
Here is the link to download my slides:
http://uniquethink.com/PDFs/BeginnersGuideToWordPressforNonCodersUniqueThink1012.pdf
Or you can view them right now:

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress For Noncoders from Bethany Siegler
The presentation included:

What is …