Category: Wordpress

WordPress: Reset forgotten password

When installing and running multiple WordPress blogs it is easy to forget the password for one of the accounts used. You are using different login names and passwords for each account now are you? This has happened to me more…

WordPress: grep the login attempts

After reading an article about WordPress security measures it got me wondering how I could see how many login attempts were made on this and other WordPress sites that I run. After a few minutes searching I decided to take…

Installing WordPress using MINSTALL

In this guide we will go through howto install a basic wordpress site using Minstall to minimize the memory footprint by removing unnecessary services. I will be using a a OpenVZ vps with 256 mb RAM to show you the steps…

WordPress permalinks with nginx

WordPress generally works out-of-the box on nginx. The posts load fine all the functions in the dashboard works pretty well. That is, until you come to the permalinks. If you are using WordPress on Apache (with mod_rewrite), WordPress will automatically…