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January 6, 2012
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Create Short URL and Twitter Sharing Links for WordPress Posts

Create Short URL and Sharing Links for Posts

For Social Network Sharing (to services like Facebook and Twitter) and for SEO purposes it can be very beneficial to create short URL Links (for example: http://tinyurl.com/7aueutw) for your post articles and pages, this can be quite simple to create and setup in your WordPress site. Here at Press Pixels we have created a quick guide below on how to create short URL (TinyURL for this guide) and with this create Twitter Publish Links for your Posts.

Getting the Short URL (TinyURL)

This quick tip tutorial will create a Short URL for your Post, and then will also show you how to use that link to create a custom “Share on Twitter” button. Firstly, open up your themes functions.php file and add the following code at the bottom; this little snippet gets called within your post and returns the generated TinyURL for a post. Read more…

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January 3, 2012
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Secure WordPress by changing Website Database Prefix

Secure WordPress by changing Website Database Prefix

A common situation for most Content Management Systems is that the WebSite database table prefixes are always defaulted to a certain value. This is a very common security vulnerability and should be changed immediately as we have done to secure the Press Pixels WordPress WebSite. This guide on how to secure and change your table prefix below is written for WordPress but can be applied to any CMS databases out there, just use your own set prefix instead of the WordPress predefined prefix specified below.

databaseprefix Secure WordPress by changing Website Database Prefix

Bad Prefix.

By default WordPress installations sets “wp_” as a prefix for each WordPress table name. Since this is a known vulnerability, malicious users can exploit your data easily. If your table prefix is “wp_” or “wp1_” or even “wordpress_”, then changing it will bring your WordPress site security to a higher level. Read more…

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