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a 48-Hour Head Start In The Race To Secure Your WordPress Website

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Any good WordPress website administrator is always striving to improve their ability to monitor your website for vulnerabilities and find them before they become a problem.

Recently one of my favorite security tools, iThemes Security Pro, made a significant improvement in their ability to identify threats to a WordPress website. They have integrated their vulnerability scanning component with Patchstack’s Threat Feed.

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Jacqueline Briggs Martin – An Author’s Website

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Jackie, (aka: Jacqueline Briggs Martin), is an accomplished author of children’s books. One book of hers you may have heard about, Snowflake Bentley, was the winner of the 1999 Caldecott Award.

I mentioned that I thought she needed a new website and I offered to make it for her. She agreed to let me. I was thrilled to get started, but, knew I had a lot of work to do.

In addition to streamlining and reorganizing the content flow, updating the design to work with mobile devices, we also decided to migrate almost 100 blog posts from an abandoned Blogspot account that we couldn’t access as owner/admin.

In the end, this turned out to be one of my favorite website rescues / renovations…

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