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Q&A: How do I install WordPress on my local PC?

Posted on May 15, 2021

Question from Clara: I’ve been writing a WordPress blog that discusses a variety of family issues for over two years now.

I recently installed an update to a plugin that completely broke my blog, and since I couldn’t log in to my WordPress account I couldn’t remove the bad plugin.

I searched for a solution on Google for three days and I finally found your excellent blog post explaining how to disable the bad plugin using an FTP program, and it saved me. Thank you for that!!

Now, my question: I heard that it’s possible to install WordPress on my local PC so I can test new plugins and updates without having to chance breaking my real blog again. Can you tell me how to do that?

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Scam alert: New data leak exposes financial info of 600,000 consumers

Posted on April 9, 2021

Data breaches and exploits are nothing new to the online world.

In fact, it seems like they happen every day.

As reported by our friends at BleepingComputer, this latest massive data leak has a strange twist to it.

Apparently several groups that traffic in stolen credit card and banking information on the dark web are exposing the info in each others’ databases in some sort of weird retribution spree.

These actions have resulted in the credit card and banking info of 600,000 consumers being leaked onto the open web.

There are other factors involved in this latest leak as well, but the details aren’t really as important as taking steps to mitigate the damage if it turn out you were one of the affected consumers.

This is what I recommend that you do… [Read more…]