
3 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Lock Down Your Site
No matter the size of your website, never underestimate the importance of using at least one of the best WordPress security plugins to keep that
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No matter the size of your website, never underestimate the importance of using at least one of the best WordPress security plugins to keep that
If you want to secure your WordPress site, a firewall is a great way to stop malicious actors before they can damage or spam your
If you are on the internet, you are very much vulnerable to security attacks, hackers, and threats no matter what. The Internet is filled with
If you’re not paying for a premium managed WordPress host, it’s very likely that you’re the only thing standing between your WordPress site and malicious
By the latest numbers, WordPress powers about one-third of all the websites on the Internet. And while that’s great for the WordPress community, it also
It’s a scary world out there, and lots of people would love to get their hands on your precious WordPress login credentials. That’s why, according
Did you just move your WordPress site to HTTPS only to be met with some weird mixed content warning instead of that beautiful green padlock
WordPress multisite is an extraordinary feature that let you manage a network of WordPress sites using a single admin site. WordPress users follow various techniques
So you’re worried that your WordPress site picked up some malware, huh? There are all kinds of reasons people might want to infect your site
So your WordPress site has malware…what do you do? Well, obviously you need some WordPress malware removal help! This isn’t a “do it yourself manually” post.
Want to learn how you can improve your search engine rankings, secure your visitors’ browsing, and boost your website’s trust…all for free? I know – that’s a bold statement. But I promise you that these free SSL certificates really can give you all of those benefits.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is an encryption-based technology to securely exchange of information between a website and visitor. Aside from encrypting the data exchanged, it also ensures the authenticity of a website to your visitors. Millions of websites use SSL for website security. It is an integral element of website security. If you care about site user experience and security, you need SSL — it’s really that
Every now and then, WordPress websites break. They also get hacked, defaced and infected. There are numerous WordPress-driven sites that become a target of malicious
Is the Free SSL Certificate from Let’s Encrypt Safe? Short answer? Yes! Every day visitors share sensitive information with many different websites. Details as important
There are so many WordPress security solutions and security providers in the market that one has to struggle hard to find and settle with one. There are a lot of things that a security solution or a provider should take care of. This post is about what users need as a security solution. What are they ready to pay for. I am writing this post with three kinds of people in mind.
Having your website hacked is not a pleasant experience. If you open your site and are being redirected to inappropriate sites, traffic plummets, getting blacklisted by search engines, browsers, and major antivirus software all point to one common thing; that is your site is hacked.
WordPress being an open source script has its code publicly available. It means anyone willing to contribute can build on top of others’ work. This is how WordPress software gets developed. The WordPress security team cannot always be on top of security vulnerabilities because it is difficult to address something which is not even discovered yet.
WordPress is a tremendous open source script. It requires MySQL and PHP to function. PHP works by retrieving information from the database to display on
In the previous article, I talked about the 5 Best WordPress Security Plugins and Solutions. You should check out that article before reading this one since they are both connected. What if you need to go beyond normal scanning plugins? This article is targeted towards intermediate users (let’s call them WP Super Admins who manage the clients’ WP websites for a living) and WordPress developers.
Protecting sites against brute force attacks is the fundamental step of WordPress security. In the previous article, you learned about ways to prevent hackers from brute forcing the login page. WordPress security keys and salts offer yet another solution to improve and harden your site security.
The backbone of any website is the administrative area and in fact, the most intriguing zone for hackers. Whenever you install WordPress, it creates a password protected administrator user which has access to the admin dashboard; which btw is hidden behind a login page.
How alarming is it to receive an email about an unauthorized login attempt to your WordPress account? Do you even have a WordPress login notification setup? Don’t worry that’s about to change; Daan Tol (owner of WPLift) got in touch with me, and we had a long conversation about WordPress security. Both of us knew that WordPress security is one of the biggest concerns for WPLift visitors. That’s why I have decided to start writing a series about WordPress Security. In this series, I will talk about everything you need to know and more about securing your WordPress website.
Displaying Trustmarks on your site is a proven way to reassure website visitors and increase conversions, landing on an unfamiliar website for the first time
We recently suffered a brute force login attack on one of my servers which was causing some sites to be unreachable and the server load
WordPress websites have become a popular malicious hacker target. We have all seen it in the news – thousands of WordPress websites get hacked overnight.
WordPress users love this platform because it’s free, has a huge community, it’s powerful, flexible, and meets the needs of most people building websites today.
We have talked about WordPress Security quite a bit lately. Since WPLift has become well-known and traffic has gone up, so too unfortunately have people
Like many web applications, WordPress stores user accounts in a MySQL database, including administrative user accounts with their associated password hashes. A closer inspection of
In a previous post on WordPress security best practices, we discussed ‘Security by obscurity’, which means that you should obscure the most commonly known paths
As one of the most commonly used Web Publishing Platform, WordPress is often targeted by malware, trojans, code injection and other evil things on the
WordPress is an easy to use, quick to learn, and secure content management system. However, just like any popular software, it is also targeted by