Tech/Horsepower

For me, half (or more!) of the fun of any new project is the setup. Even something as vanilla as this shiny new WordPress blog, I just love getting in and putting it together. After the initial joy of making it look and function the way you want, hardening the software is a fundamental that should be addressed but often overlooked – especially with self-hosters. I host ~20 WP blogs and we’ve learned and continue to learn much of this the hard way.

Let’s start with a couple absolutely necessary plugins:
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