Overheard and saved, because it’s not every day one comes across such beauties:
Alas, all opinions do not have the same value. There are those that are given and those that are given with historical references. There are those that are simply believed and those that are not, despite any support provided.
Right. Of course. Silly me for not seeing the light earlier, so thank you for illuminating my path: I truly thought that, a bit like gustibus, opinions were not disputandis. So I stand corrected, until further notice —from you or, even better, from someone who has a more historically referenced opinion to validate or refute this current opinion.
Oh, and by the by. Did you say which class of opinions does your opinion belong to?
Weblogs are intrinsically subject to spamming and other security breaches, due to their own participated nature. Some degree of protection is provided within the default WordPress installation —but the way the Internet is going, the protecting “walls” need to be much thicker than that, or spammers are guaranteed to attack your new WordPress blog within hours from making it publicly available on the Web.
Securing and fine-tuning your WordPress installation requires acting on three separate and complementary aspects: administrative access, spam protection measures and directory permissions. Administrative access rules and (some degree of) spam protection measures are offered by WordPress in your blog’s Site Admin interface, whereas permissions are accessed through FTP, Telnet/SSH or pair.com’s ACC.
I describe here how you can improve security on the test blog we have just finished installing, and suggest that you follow the same procedure after installing every new blog you want to set up.
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OK, we are nearly there. Actually, we might have taken the long and winding road to get to this point… but from where we are to having your first test blog up and running, it is now a matter of seconds!
Virtually all you need is in place, and WordPress can now be installed by simply opening Safari and typing in the following URI in the Location field:
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