WordPress Security
Prevention and understanding: hardening, login protection, and attack explainers.
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How to Protect Your Website from Hackers
Protect your website from hackers with practical firewall, malware scanning, login security, update, backup, hardening, and recovery measures.
Why You’re Seeing a WordPress Site Not Secure Warning and How to Fix It
Fix a WordPress Not Secure warning by installing SSL correctly, updating HTTP URLs, clearing mixed content, and enforcing HTTPS safely.
WordPress Security Headers: 7 Headers That Matter and How to Use Them Safely
Configure seven WordPress security headers safely, understand what each one controls, and test for conflicts with logins, forms, scripts, and embeds.
How to Block IP Addresses in WordPress Safely
To prevent spam comments and repeat abuse, this guide shows you how to block IP addresses in WordPress safely, step by step.
WordPress CSRF: What It Is, How To Fix It, And How To Prevent It
Learn how WordPress CSRF attacks work, how to fix a vulnerable plugin or custom action, and how to investigate and prevent unauthorized changes.
Session Hijacking 101: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Stop It
Session hijacking is an attack where someone takes over a valid logged-in session instead of logging in with the password.
WordPress XSS 101: What It Is and How You Can Prevent It
Learn how WordPress cross-site scripting attacks work, where XSS vulnerabilities appear, how to detect compromise, and how to prevent exploitation.
WordPress Passwordless Login: What It Is and How to Set It Up Safely
Set up WordPress passwordless login with magic links or passkeys, choose a suitable plugin, protect recovery paths, and keep secure fallback access.
How to Find Your WordPress Login URL and Get Back Into Your Dashboard!
Changing the WordPress login URL is often sold as a security trick. We do not recommend relying on it. It can reduce low-effort bot visits to the default
A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Limit Login Attempts (The Easy Way)
Are you worried that hackers are attempting to log into your WordPress site? Check out our guide on WordPress Limit Login Attempts.
Best WordPress 2FA Plugins
Compare seven WordPress 2FA plugins by authentication methods, recovery controls, user policies, pricing, and ease of administration.
Here’s How to Password Protect a WordPress Site, Page, or Private Section
Choose the right way to password protect a WordPress site, page, product, category, or private section—and test that it works.