The Best of WordPress Security
The Pros and Cons of Automatic WordPress Updates
Automatic WordPress updates: As the owner of a WordPress blog, something that you will inevitably have to do if you haven’t already is run updates. And in particular, security updates. One option to update your WordPress blog will be to have them made...
Cross Site Scripting Attacks: What Are They & How to Prevent Them?
WordPress today is the most popular website building platform. It has over 60 million users. This type of popularity draws both good and bad attention. While more and more websites are being built on WordPress each day, there are a large number of hack...
Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Salts & Security Keys
WordPress Salts & Keys: In December 2017, some 1.4 million WordPress login credentials were reportedly stolen. Shortly afterwards, a massive brute force attack was launched by a group of hackers on hundreds of thousands of websites. Of course, site owners...
Change WordPress Login URL: Helpful or Harmful?
Change WordPress login URL: WordPress currently powers more than 60 million websites which makes it the most popular CMS. Since popularity draws both good and bad attention, WordPress sites tend to experience 90000 hack attempts every minute of the day....
7 Features That Go into Making the Best WordPress Security Plugins
Best WordPress security plugins: WordPress being the world's preferred CMS, WordPress websites are the number one target for hack attempts. Being a popular website building platform automatically puts a target on its back. Hence, it's not surprising that...
WordPress Email Notification for Login Security: Helpful or Harmful?
WordPress email notification: Did you know that over 90,000 hack attempts are made on WordPress sites every single minute of the day? Brute force attacks form a sizeable chunk of the hack attempts made on the Internet today. It's not surprising to see a...
The Most Definitive Guide on WordPress Security
Worried about your website security? You wouldn’t be the first one! In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of website owners like yourself worried about their website security. Reports tell us that over 90,000 hack attempts are made on WordPress website...
Do WordPress Plugins Make Your Site Vulnerable?
There are over 56,000 plugins in the WordPress directory at the moment, but does it mean that each plugin is a potential security threat for your WordPress website? Not to scare you right from the start, but WordPress is the most hacked content management...
Worried about WPServeur Suspending your Website?
When WPServeur, your web host, suspends your website and the fruit of all your labors is nowhere to be found online, it is quite easy to slip into a panic mode.. Web hosts suspend accounts for several reasons. The most common reasons for a suspended account are as...
Website “Quarantined” by DigitalOcean?
Did you know that it can take more than 6 months (or more) to get your SEO game back on track if your website has been shut down by your web host or blacklisted by Google? Chances are, if you are here because your website was suspended, you found out about this the...
How to Secure Your WordPress Site with WP-Config.php?
Every WordPress site contains a file called ‘wp-config.php’. This particular WordPress configuration file is one of the most significant WordPress files. The file contains many configuration parameters which can be modified for better site security. In...
How to Ban an IP Address from Accessing Your WordPress Site?
Ban an IP address: Brute force attacks are one of the most common forms of attacks made on WordPress websites today. In brute force attacks, hackers make repeated login attempts on the WordPress login page. One of the ways to prevent brute force attacks on...
9 Simple Steps to an “un-suspended” Pantheon website
What’s worse than the “White Screen of Death”? This. Website not responding "The web page you were looking for could not be delivered." A common reason for web host suspending your site is overdue payment. You just have to pay what you owe to the web host and you’ll...
A Guide on How to Secure WordPress Admin
Secure WordPress Admin: Did you know that over 90,000 hack attempts are made on WordPress websites every single minute of the day? What it implies is that hack attempts on your websites imminent regardless of whether the site is big or small. Security is...
“Vultr suspended my website. What can I do?”
Many web hosts unfortunately do a poor job of explaining what exactly you are in for, when you host your website on their servers. When your web host suspends your website for malware presence, you are left with nowhere to go. Vultr hosting provider spells out its...