Here’s another great plugin that’ll help keep your WordPress site secure, and it blocks the majority of spam comments too. More
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Brute Protect – Recommended WordPress Plugin [update]
Update: Brute Protect is now built into Automattic’s Jetpack plugin.
However, as of 2018 – I would recommend using Wordfence. and I have updated all my sites to use it.
If you have a standalone WordPress installation, I recommend adding the Brute Protect plugin. Brute Protect is designed to reduce the chance of your WordPress site falling victim of a ‘Brute Force Attack‘. This is where a nefarious computer system (a malicious bot) continually tries to break into your WordPress account. More

WordPress Theme – Twenty Fourteen
The Word Press Theme Twenty thirteen arrived rather late to the New Year’s party. Eight months late in August to be precise. The 2014 WordPress theme – Twenty fourteen is planned to be released along with WordPress version 3.8 in early December this year. The decision to base Twenty Fourteen on an existing premium theme – Further, should go a long way towards ensuring that the deadline is met.
How to Add a Video to a WordPress Blog
Here’s a quick step-by-step guide on how to add a YouTube video to a WordPress blog. This will work equally well for a WordPress page or post.
It is easy to add a link to a video, but, if you do your site’s visitors will end up leaving your site to see the video and they may not return. It is much better to show the video in your WordPress post or page by embedding it.
Update: Timing is everything! With the release of WordPress 3.6 Video (and audio) embedding is now built-in. So you’ll only need to follow the steps below if you’ve not updated to WordPress 3.6. Read about the WordPress 3.6 update here. More

WordPress Stats Update
WordPress have added the number of unique visitors to the page view graph. More
Today WordPress.com announced a new paid-for enterprise version of its free blog hosting service.
They are offering unlimited uploads, bandwidth, 70 WordPress plugins and lots of customization features to draw corporate users away from self hosted sites using the open source version of WordPress (WordPress.org). The price – $500.00 pcm.
Read more:
WordPress.com Enterprise is Live « WordPress.com VIP.