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This article is applicable for WordPress user who used IIS7.x as their web services and not able to work correctly with the permalink.

1. Log into your WordPress. Select on Setting and click on Permalink Settings.

2. Select any of the Common Setting or Custom Structure.
3. Click Update Permalink Structure button.
4. Now, you will see your blog get 404 error when click on any post or pages. No worry, refer to the following step to get this fix.
5. Log into your DotNetPanel file manager or FTP, modify the web.config file from your root folder (probably wwwroot folder) and add the following code to the web.config file.

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Today, I will share how a bad guy(hacker) try to scan your WordPress version however I am not going to share how to do this.

With WordPress 2.8.x or earlier, WordPress version status were stored in a file named version.php in the wp-includes folder, some plugin such as WP Security Scan will try to hide the WordPress version number from scanning.

In order to get your WordPress version, you may do like the following command to grep the WordPress version.

mickgenie@mickgenie.com [~]# grep wp_version wp-includes/version.php
* @global string $wp_version
$wp_version = ‘2.8.6′;

If you have WordPress 2.8.x and you have forgotten your administrator password, lost your password or whatever, you may refer to this article to reset your password.

With this article, I assume that you are familiar with MySQL/PHPMyAdmin.

1. Log into the PHPMyAdmin.
2. Browse to to wp_users table.
3. Edit the user that you could like to modify the password.
4. Change the user_pass field to below text from the value. (Include the last dot)

$P$BCZRE5gAF/noSePSFjhE7VSgfPZxUn.

5. Select on Go button.
6. You will be able to login use the mentioned user username with the password of “password” without double quotes.
7. Log into your WordPress, change your password to your preferrable password immediately.

Like or not? Yes, this is wordpress!

Many Wordpress user alway will facing Wordpress appear empty page after upgrade to newer version of Wordpress, 1 of the reason is due to you do not disable plugin before upgrade it.

Refer to the step below, you may disable the plugin through MySQL database(PHPMyAdmin).
1. Login to PHPMyAdmin.
2. Look to your databases(eg. mickgenie_wordpress).
3. Look to table named wp_options as browse it.

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