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Keep your WordPress sites secure and safe by following this simple advice:

1) Only use plugins that you need.  Each plugin is an added security risk.

2) Avoid using the user name, admin, on your administrator accounts.  Use a random name instead with at least one number in it.

3) Use strong passwords!!!  CatDog isn’t a strong password folks.

4) Keep your WordPress updated and your plugins as well.

Above all, MAKE BACKUPS!!!!

Safe surfing!

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WARNING:  Make a backup of your htaccess file first so you can revert to your working file in the event something goes wrong.

Add this to your .htaccess file:

# begin caching entries

ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 7 days”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 7 days”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 7 days”
# css may change more frequently
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 days”

#enable gzip of text files

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# end client side cache settings

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This is white paper should also work well for the standard Outlook or Microsoft mail setup as well.  Steps won’t be exact, but should get you going.

Outlook Express Email setup

- Internet Connection Wizard

Open outlook, if you dont have anything setup the Internet Connection Wizard will automatically start.  if you do have an email account already setup, then you will need to create a new identity, click on file, click on identities, click on add new identity, that will open up a window to name this mail identity, once you do that connection wizard opens

- Your Name : When you send email, your name will appear in the From field of the outgoing message.  Type your name as you would like it to appear.

- Click Next

- E-Mail address : Your e-mail address is the address other people use to send e-mail messages to you.  Enter the email address you want configure this to send/receive email for.

- Click Next

- E-Mail Server Names : Select POP3 or IMAP for my incoming mail server is a

- Incoming mail server :  yourdomain.com

- Outgoing Mail server :  yourdomain.com

- Click Next

- Internet Mail Logon:  Account name : Enter your username for this email address
Password:  Enter the password for this email address

- Do not check Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)

- Click Next

- Click Finished

- Now lets manually set a couple settings

- Click on tools, then accounts, select the mail tab and then click on properties

- Go to the servers tab

- Look for Outgoing mail server and check the box for my server requires authentication

- Then click on settings button right after that

- Select log on using and then enter your username and password in the blanks.

- Do not check Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)

- Click on OK button

- Now select the Advanced tab at the top

- Outgoing mail (SMTP) port number : 25 is default and will work for most but some ISPS are blocking this port, so use 587 if 25 will not work for you.

- Click APPLY

- Click OK

- Close out your mail program

- Open Outlook Express back up and you should be ready to send and receive email

Happy E-Mailing

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WordPress Server Load hampering your visitors and causing slow page loads?  With M3Server.com’s fully managed WordPress virtual server, we take care of that problem for you.  Often times the WordPress Server Load is simply just server related.  Period.

Properly tuning a server takes patience to provide you the best WordPress Hosting experience possible.  We analyze each service provided by the server and performance tune it to your site’s characteristics.   Our free tuning service includes benchmark tests of before, during, and after the tuning process is complete.  We can show you real results of these tests.

Once we have the server load reduced and your WordPress hosting has improved, we can then work with you to improve your site with use of plugins and other performance improvements.

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You added, upgraded, removed, activated or other wise modified a WordPress plugin and now you can’t reach your WordPress admin login page!  Or, even worse, your entire site has a blank page or other 500 error.

Did you backup your database first before working on your site?   Its best to restore IF you have a CURRENT backup, but if not, you can try this fix action.

If you forget to deactivate plugins before a WordPress upgrade/update, your site could break or leave you with a blank page when viewing your WordPress admin login page.

The repair action is to go to the wp_option table in your WordPress database, and find the row with option_name ‘active_plugins’.

To get started, follow the general guide below:

Login via your Secure phpMyAdmin URL with the user name and password of your database.

Find your database name on the left hand side and click it.
Now, find the table named: wp_option

Next, locate the row:
active_plugins

Click on the “pencil” edit icon to edit this row.

The section of interest is the large white text box.  It generally has a few lines of code.

Copy this data and paste it in a plain text editor, just for save keeping.

Then delete the rows of code in this box and click save.

This should deactivate all plugins.  Retry your WordPress admin login now.

As always, we can’t state this strongly enough.  Before embarking on any WordPress management, updates, upgrades, plugin installs, etc, always, and we mean always backup/export your database.A

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