If you are considering investing in a security plugin to protect your WordPress site, you have undoubtedly heard of Sucuri. Sucuri is widely used by WordPress sites, but nevertheless has serious shortcomings. The biggest problem is that the malware scanner is not able to flag all the malware, which gives you a false sense of…

WordPress makes it easy for anyone to have a website quickly, but there is a lot of noise online that talks about how many security issues it has.  Does WordPress have security issues? Yes Are they insurmountable? NoShould it stop you from building your website with WordPress? Most certainly not  A conservative estimate puts the number…

In articles about WordPress security, you may have come across WordPress salts or security keys, and wondered what those were. In a nutshell, they are random strings used by WordPress to encrypt your password.  Passwords are one of the most important aspects of website security, so it is worth understanding how WordPress salt keys work…

Wordfence and Sucuri are both WP security plugins that inevitably come up when debating which one is best for your site. On the face of it, the choice may seem difficult. Sucuri’s plugin has a server-side malware scanner and a cloud-based firewall. If your site gets hacked, they offer up unlimited manual malware removal. Wordfence,…

iThemes Security looks like a great deal at just $199 for unlimited websites, and because of its unbeatable price, it has been a serious contender amongst the top security plugins for WordPress.  In the other corner we have Wordfence, the undisputed heavyweight in this category. Wordfence is known for the feature-heavy free plugin, and their…

Jetpack is a multipurpose administrative plugin, and packages backups, security, growth and speed in one handy-dandy plugin. Plus, it has the cachet of being from the Automattic stable, so it obviously carries weight in the WordPress domain. Our other contender is Wordfence, arguably one of the most popular security plugins today. They are known for…

GoDaddy, one of the biggest web hosts, discovered a data breach on November 17th, 2021. The WordPress community has been discussing the Godaddy data breach implications because the primary target of the security breach was GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress customers.  The trouble with this sort of news is that there is always a lot of noise…

If your Bluehost website shows a “This account has been suspended” message, your site has been taken offline by Bluehost.  This effectively means that neither you nor your visitors can reach your website and until you can fix the Bluehost account suspended issue, it will remain offline. While it is a situation that can rightly…

At first glance, iThemes Security looks like a great and affordable security plugin for your WordPress websites. Especially if you consider that you can protect unlimited websites for just $199.  Sucuri, on the other hand, is considered one of the best security plugins for WordPress available. It packs a punch with a scanner and a…