securing WordPress

Part of securing a WordPress installation is checking up on your file permissions. In order to prevent overwriting by malicious code, limit the permissions to read-only except where necessary.

Here’s a good start:

Relative PathSuggested permissions
/0755
/wp-admin0755
/wp-includes0755
/wp-config.php0444
/wp-content0755
/wp-content/themes0755
/wp-content/plugins0755
.htaccess0444

I should also mention that I highly recommend WordFence for securing the internal WP system itself.

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you had me at Dostoevsky

“Yes, I love Dostoevsky, both my supervisor and I love him.”

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enjoy “clean” air while you can…

The new normal way to breathe outside? Such an attractive respirator for a jog in the park:

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happy? new year

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an assortment of images that struck me in 2016

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Moscow

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email the entire Wisconsin state legislature if you want

Ever wanted to send a message to every Wisconsin state senator and representative in the legislature? Here are their email addresses:

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results of a recent wardrive

During a recent Sunday afternoon cruise, I collected the names and locations of all the WiFi routers in range of my car. Some of the access point names are creative, listed here. (I omitted the many openly vulgar ones one would expect to find in a college town.)

Plays on “WiFi”1000px-Osa_device-wireless-router.svg

Pretty Fly For a WiFi
So fly for wifi
WiFi Art Though Romeo?
WiFi? Why not Zoidberg?
WiSoSerious
4OH!4–Dont Trust Our Wifi
4Fer my wife-i
99 Problems, but WIFi ain’t one
A Lannister always pays his wifi
AINT NO WI-FEY
Bill Wi the Science Fi
wedonthavewifi
The Creepy Wifi from Doctor Who

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life is like a dream right now

lifeadream

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