As some of you who followed my earlier site know, I had several hacker attacks that took down some of my WordPress sites. After chasing down the weaknesses for awhile, I decided to ignore it and work on some marketing.

In the meantime, one-by-one, my other WordPress sites fell prey and I knew it was only a matter of time before LoW would be hit. It is amazing. I kept religious backups and thought that when it happened, I would just recover and keep going.

It seemed simple enough, but in reality, the stress of knowing this site was vulnerable kept me from focusing when I would sit down to post.

Finally, Willie Crawford, in his pod-cast, ‘Willie Crawford Teaches Real Internet Marketing’ interviewed the author of a secure WordPress installation version that was not only free, but could be used on unlimited sites. I decided to install the script and test it on another domain. However, the script kiddies had other plans.

No problem, I just switched over to this new account and made a few changes. Now I am back.

It is taking longer than planned to go live again, but that is because I added some other functions and made check-lists for future installations on other sites.

New features include an AutoRespondor, an affiliate link cloaking script and a download protection script for products I sell from the site. I will be reporting on these later on the blog.

I decided to restore only a few of the original articles I wrote for the blog and will schedule them to be posted over this week.

Look forward to more informative articles to come.

Welcome, or welcome back.

Buck

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