Remove Date Time Stamp in WordPress
How to remove, exclude or delete the time stamp in a self-hosted wordpress blog (You cannot do this in a wordpress.com blog, unless you upgrade it). You can do it manually or using Date Exclusion SEO plugins.
Time stamp (date, time/day/month/year) will automatically be shown in every post and page in a wordpress. If you don’t like them or just want to remove them, do the following:
Removing Date Time Stamp from Posts / Article only (still shown in the mainpage)
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WP Admin Ajax in WordPress 2.9.2
wp-admin/admin-ajax.php is a vulnerability about WordPress that gives the attacker the possibility to find out your admin login username and the md5 hash of your password. –
Update: I use this code myself, the result was not so good. I decide to remove it. So, use it with care.
A wodpress user asks in WordPress Forum about wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?
This seems very odd. I am getting direct hit to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with over 27767 hits.
I am sure there is something wrong so if anyone can help me out i will be very thankful. Below is the screenshot of the same.
What’s wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?
It’s a vulnerability about WordPress that gives the attacker the possibility to find out your admin login username and the md5 hash of your password.
How to solve it?
1. Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.
2. If it still happens, put the following code in your .httaccess (public html -> .httaccess here)[1]
<files admin-ajax.php>
deny from all
</files>
Warning: There are some side effects though if you are using this code one of which are you cannot create new categories and can’t insert a picture. So, there more comfortable solution is needed to fix this problem.
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Notes:
[1] To access and edit the .httacess,
(a) login to your cpanel at yourwebsite.com/cpanel;
(b) File Manager -> public html -> .httacess (if you can’t see it, find it out using search tools)
(c) Check .httcess -> edit -> add the above code -> Save.
Courtesy: PhpHelp
Ping Services for WordPress
List of ping services for self hosted wordpress blog.
If you run a self-hosted wordpress blog, you may put the following Update Services to ping them about the newest blog post you’ve just written.
The purpose is apart from driving traffics, to get your latest articles indexed quickly by search engines
Where to put them?
1. After login -> Setting -> Writing -> Update Services
2. Put the following ping URLS into the box below “Update Services”
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SEO WordPress Themes
There’s little doubt that themes we are using on our wordpress powered blog has an impact in terms of SEO. The question is what constitute a SEO friendly themes? What’s the basic standard a themes deserved to be called SEO friendly? Claiming one own themes as SEO friendly is one thing, and that a particular theme fit the criteria is quite another.
Kyle Eslick has compiled a great collection of SEO friendly wordpress themes. Good for those bloggers who are not good in coding and clean up some coding mess themselves.
Divided into two and three columns themes, the review help the self-hosted wordpress bloggers to pick easily some of those free themes for maximum use.
