Author Archives: Slava Abakumov
Is your WordPress installation secure?
Following the Heartbleed vulnerability affecting all of us on the web, security has been a big topic lately. Some of us even changed our years-old passwords, and maybe enabled 2-factor authentication on our email accounts… (2-factor is the system where you need a code generated by, say, your mobile phone as well as your regular […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 6: Extending for Google Apps
This is the final part in our blog series talking you through setting up a typical corporate intranet using WordPress. See earlier parts: 1 – Introduction, 2 – Privacy, 3 – Accessibility, 4 – User Management, or 5 – Extra Functionality if you missed them. This article is written for organizations who are using Google […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 5: Extra Functionality
This is the fifth part in our blog series talking you through setting up a typical corporate intranet using WordPress. See earlier parts: 1 – Introduction, 2 – Privacy, 3 – Accessibility, or 4 – User Management if you missed them. In this article we will point you in the direction of a few plugins […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 4: User Management
This is the fourth part in our blog series talking you through setting up a typical corporate intranet using WordPress. See Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 if you missed them. So far we have covered how to keep unwanted visitors out, and also how to ensure your employees’ accounts allow them to access […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 3: Accessibility
This is the third part in our blog series talking you through setting up a typical corporate intranet using WordPress. See Part 1 or Part 2 if you missed them. Last time we showed how to make sure unwanted visitors cannot access your private intranet. In this article we will talk through ways to make […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 2: Privacy
This is the second part in our blog series talking you through setting up a typical corporate intranet using WordPress. See our introductory Part 1 if you missed it. As we explained, you can host your WordPress intranet on any webserver, just as though you were building a public-facing website. This article covers how to […]
WordPress Intranets – Part 1: Introduction
Many organizations use our Google Apps Login plugin to securely protect a WordPress-based intranet – often a ‘multisite’ installation, making it easy to set up separate spaces for different teams to share information amongst themselves or with the rest of the organization. WordPress is a great platform for your intranet – the only problem is […]
Is Google storming in on WordPress?
As Google launches its second official WordPress plugin, WP-Glogin asks: are these the beginnings of something beautiful between the search giant and the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world? The WordPress plugin directory is plentiful with Google plugins, but Google has only ever created two of them itself: Google App Engine and, most recently, […]
Making the most of WordPress’ user system
How important is it to set up a comprehensive user hierarchy on your WordPress sites? This article will explain the benefits of creating multiple users for your WordPress site and how understanding the different roles users can have will give you the control needed to allow others to create content, without risking control of the […]
