WordPress is a wonderful open-source publishing software that can be used to build beautiful websites or blogs. However, you have to be prepared and have the know-how to keep it secure or it can pose a risk for your website or even the server it’s hosted on. Check out these thirteen tips (from a programmer’s perspective) to help you secure you WordPress website.

VRI is proud to announce the launch of our “Avantlink Related Products” plug-in for WordPress. This plugin enables WordPress users to leverage the Avantlink API right on their blog. The plugin allows bloggers to input a series of keywords—either specific to a single post, or relevant to the blog as a whole—and creates a widget of related product links from all existing affiliate relationships. Avantlink Related Products also allows bloggers to identify negative keywords (to block potentially irrelevant products from appearing), as well as determine the number of products they would like to display. Here is an example of a blog running the plugin (scroll to the bottom of the post).