We have installed a set of WordPress Plugins to provide basic security and functionality for your Blog. We have also installed, but not Activated some additional Plugins you might wish to consider. There are numerous other Plugins available from WordPress you are free to use to expand your site, provided you remain within Guild guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There follows a description of the installed Plugins, along with any options selected, and any outstanding actions required. The Plugins are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security and Performance Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Akismet<\/strong>: The purpose of Akismet is to protect your site from SPAM, particularly in the Comments that can be made on your Posts and Pages. Comments from new addresses will be held for moderation by you, but once you have Approved one Comment from an address, further Comments will be automatically Approved (note: these settings are customisable). Akismet will save you a lot of effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However you will need to activate Akismet and set up your own, free Personal non-Commercial Akismet account, and obtain your unique API key. The process is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Should a SPAM comment get past Akismet you should mark it as SPAM so Akismet can learn. Also you should regularly (weekly) check you SPAM folder for any genuine comments and mark them as \u2018not SPAM\u2019. This will make Akismet more accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Limit login attempts reloaded<\/strong>: This limits the number of login attempts from an IP address allowed. The default settings are 4 attempts allowed before a lockout of 20 minutes. Four lockouts results in a 24 hour lockout. These can be altered but the defaults work OK. The only relevant logins are yours, and any associate administrators\/publishers\u2019, to the WordPress Administrator\u2019s Dashboard. Registration and passwords for users are not implemented in the Template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LiteSpeed Cache<\/strong>: This improves page caching performance. No action is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wordfence Security: <\/strong>This provides a Firewall, and anti-virus, and anti malware scanning. A summary of threats it has encountered in the previous week is presented on the Dashboard. It also has its own Dashboard giving access to greater detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only action necessary is to change the email address for Wordfence notifications to your own. This is found in Dashboard Wordfence \u2013 All Options.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n reCapture<\/strong>: This puts a reCapture object on any form, including Comments, that users may use to communicate with you. It is in the form of a \u201cI am not a Robot checkbox\u201d. It is installed but not Activated. You may wish to consider this if you add a Contact Form to your site (see WP Forms Lite<\/strong> in the Functional Plugins section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Functional Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Subscribe2<\/strong>: Subscribe2 allows you to maintain a list of Subscribers to your Blog. It is described in detail on the Managing Subscribers<\/strong> Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WP Forms Lite<\/strong>: This allows you to design forms to allow users to contact you, login to your site etc. It is installed but not activated. You can activate it if and when you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sassy Social Share <\/strong>: This Plugin provides sharing icons to provide links to social media. There is a large number of icons to chose. The initial set of links chosen is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are options for a static and a floating set of icons. In the initial configuration the static icons are placed at the bottom of Pages and Posts, and the floating icons are disabled. Share counts are enabled. This can be reconfigured as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Activity Plugins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Page Views Count:<\/strong> This allows you to a place a visitor count on each Post and Page, and and a count of site visits in the Sidebar. It is set to show on Posts and Pages. This can be changed for Posts or Pages, and overridden for individual Posts or Pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n
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