WordPress Security
Prevention and understanding: hardening, login protection, and attack explainers.
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Referrer Policy in WordPress: What It Is and How to Configure It
If a security scan has flagged your site for a missing referrer policy WordPress setting, you probably want a safe fix—not another header to configure blindly.
HSTS WordPress: How to Add the Strict-Transport-Security Header Safely
If a scanner reports no HSTS header after you moved WordPress to HTTPS, you need to know what HSTS changes before you enable it.
X-Frame-Options WordPress: Configure and Test It Safely
If you need an x-frame-options wordpress fix, first inspect the response header your site sends.
How to Add X-Content-Type-Options in WordPress
If a security scan says your site is missing x-content-type-options wordpress, use this setting:
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.
Cookie Stealing: What It Is and How to Protect Your WordPress Site
Cookie stealing is quite among WordPress sites. Here, we show you how hackers steal cookies and how to prevent them.
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.