My friend Wes in Julies Blogging Support Skype Room gave me the following tip:

“You should also get into the habit of creating at least a blank index.html file within your /wp-content/themes and /wp-content/plugin folders. You can do that within Freehostia FileManager … at the top of each Folder level, there’s a place to create a blank folder or file … make sure you click the “file” radio button.

This way someone cannot go to http://yourdomain.freehostia.com/wp-content/themes or http://yourdomain.freehostia.com/wp-content/plugins to see what you are using (possible hacker acccess info) or if you purchased a theme, they can just right click on the zip file and download it from this location. Having a blank index.html file, they will see a blank page.”

I used Cyberduck to do it and it was drop dead easy! If you have a wordpress blog, no matter where you host it, go check it out if someone would get an empty page or a list of your content.

I’m having fun finding plugins and uploading them easily with Cyberduck.

I had first wondered if I needed to unzip them so I went to a Skype room (Jerry’s Wordpress Skype room) and asked the question.

In the meantime I bookmarked my blog’s ftp address in Cyberduck and even found out fast where the plugins go to and saw, there was already one in there, not zipped. So my question was answered. I went back to the Skype room and at that very moment someone answered  my question
I also got a tip about security in another Skype room (Julie’s Blogging Support Room), which I will  do right after sending this post out and maybe write about it tomorrow. I think it’s pretty important to know if you use Freehostia.

Have a sweet day!