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Things to do to stop a brute force attack on a WordPress Blog

Published January 24, 2018 | By Christopher G Mendla

Last Updated on January 19, 2020

I woke up this morning to see that some of my sites were a bit slow to respond. Shortly after, I was getting a resource limit message from my host when trying to get to the front or back ends of any of the WordPress sites. I checked cPanel and my resources were maxed out.

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Quick fix for a Joomla site that google said wasn’t ‘mobile ready’

Published April 6, 2015 | By Christopher Mendla

Last Updated on November 30, 2019

The deadline is rapidly approaching for Google’s algo change that puts a heavy weight on a site’s mobile readiness.

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Redirecting a Joomla OSMap sitemap to /sitemap.xml

Published July 2, 2015 | By Christopher Mendla

Last Updated on November 30, 2019

I have been changing the sitemap generator for my Joomla sites from XMap to OSMap.

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