If you want to keep your WordPress blog safe from intrusion, two ways to eliminate basic attacks are to move your wp-config.php file up one directory to a non-public area and to delete the admin user account. Neither of these will stop a determined and skillful malefactor, but like using a bike lock, they will keep the basic thugs out.
Even when the job market is really tough, there’s a simple way you may be able to increase your marketability as a potential employee and help ensure you’ll get back on your feet quickly if you lose your job: blogging.
It’s not exactly a surprising finding, but it’s good to have some numbers to back it up: a survey of Australian bloggers suggests that most people share their thoughts online for personal satisfaction rather than a means of making money.
iOS: If you don’t have a Tumblr blog, it might be time to get one. Tumblr for iPhone 2.0 launched earlier this week with a new interface that makes it easier than ever to follow popular blogs and post messages, photos and videos to your own.
Dear Lifehacker, I have a blog that I want to make more mobile-friendly and look better on mobile phones, but I don’t know anything about web development and don’t have the money to hire anyone. Is it possible to make my site mobile-friendly, or, better yet, can I make the blog into a downloadable app? Thanks in advance, Wanna-Go-Mobile Blogger
Dear Lifehacker, A simple but challenging question: With sites like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, which one’s a guy to choose? Thanks, Beginning Blogger
If you have a blog that you no longer wish to keep interactive, you can use two little command-line utilities, wget and rsync, to easily convert your blog into a static site.
Blogs often feature disclaimers designed to stave off any legal action. That’s not the worst idea in the world, but you can’t automatically fall back on the presence of a disclaimer if the rest of the blog appears to ignore its existence entirely.
We’ve previously looked at how you can de-troll your internet, but software developer Shlomi Fish offers up a different and very interesting approach. Shlomi found that the best-selling book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy—a book that teaches cognitive therapy—offered up effective solutions for dealing with the Internet’s most embittered vocal minority.
