Category Archives for "Focus and Priorities"

Stuck in "Social Distancing" prison? Here are some things you could do instead of simply creating more episodes.

Yes, they absolutely do!

WordFence is the #1 plugin I install on any new WordPress sites I create, and it's installed on every single one of my existing WordPress websites.

• A security plugin can monitor a lot of things for you as the site owner or admin:
• Monitoring successful logins,
• Login attempts
• Throttling login attempts,
• Preventing PHP execution in the uploads folder
• Firewall to detect malicious traffic and "protects against a number of common web-based attacks as well as a large amount of attacks specifically targeted at WordPress and WordPress themes and plugins" - especially useful because it's learning in real-time from 100s of thousands of websites around the world
• Protect against SQL Injection, Malicious File Upload, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Directory Traversal, Local File Inclusion, etc
• Malware scanner to scan files on your website to make sure neither WordPress or other files have been compromised (" checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections")
• IP banning (both manual as well as database-learned)
• Hiding WordPress version (which can be used by hackers to target vulnerabilities in older versions)
• Brute-force protection
• Locking out invalid username login attempts
• Banning certain usernames
• Enforce strong passwords
• Preventing users from using usernames like "admin" when registering
• Prevent discovery of usernames
• Block IPs who send POST requests with blank User-Agent and Referer
• Blocking fake Google crawlers trying to spoof Google user-agent
• Country-based blocking

The list goes on.

You can no longer afford to run a WordPress website without WordFence installed. That’s just... begging to get hacked 🙂

I saw this question asked on Facebook, so I wanted to address it here.

Question: "Do you prefer listening to a podcast that is is edited? Or nah?"

My Answer: For the most part, I prefer podcasts that are edited for umms and aahs and pauses. Now, there are shows which the conversations are just absolutely incredible (Bill Simmons, Tim Ferriss, Marketing Over Coffee), and it would actually do it injustice to edit the natural flow - so such shows are the exception. But those are far and few in-between.

Most regular "interview" shows can use all the editing they can, not just to improve the length of the show, but for improving the audio quality (sound leveling, cross-talk, etc), and to improve the show quality just by cutting out the completely unnecessary stuff - like "Can you hear me now?" pre-interview banter, "Hold on, my door bell just rang", "Sorry, my child is calling me, let me quickly check what it is", "Mind if I grab a quick drink of water?", type stuff which is not important to the show or to the listeners.

Some additional points:

If you’re a Digital Creator or Entrepreneur, then you’ve got to...

Create more than you Consume.
Promote (as much as, if not) more than you Create.

Check out the video and 2 podcast episodes I published about this topic.