While working my way around all of the sites over September I have added in Social Media Feather, which is an excellent plugin which is not too difficult to set up. In all cases I have this set up, (if you cannot see it please contact me), it appears as a set of icons below your posts and pages.
If you also have a Facebook account and/or Twitter, then I have added these in too.
The major benefit of this plugin is that it supports a lot of social groups and is easy to configure. Once set up, your specific content can be shared through the social media group; that is right down to the page and/or post level. So any campaigns you choose to run can now be more easily shared by people.
You can see these icons at the bottom of this post.
Memory Management
All WordPress installations are set up to run in 64MB of memory by default. I found one case where the memory allocated through the hosting company (apparently it was a glitch), was only set to 32MB. I have added a plugin which can be configured to increase this memory. All sites are now working with a minimum allocation of 128MB, and in some cases 256MB.
With one of the reseller accounts I use, there is little difference because the hosting is fast anyway, in the other there is a small improvement of speed. Largely because the memory allocated was small before it was extended.
The Plugin is called Change Memory Limit.
Reducing the Noise
On all sites I have some security plugins which send me messages about activities on the website. These will generally tell me about login failures and other problems, as well as changes to sites. I know who the editors are and can detect activity that is outside of “normal activity”. For the most part, this is hackers trying to get into a site. The volume of traffic has got so high over the past 3 weeks I have had to go in and reduce the frequency of emails to an acceptable level. On some nights (over a 6 hour period) I would get 100+ emails advising me of failed login attempts. Each one represents many failed attempts.
It seems to be a fact of life that hacker activity is increasing. I guess we just have to accept it, and keep an eye on it. Do however maintain and change tough passwords. Remember that hackers often work to password libraries, and if you are using a simple password, then it is likely they may try to use it too.