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Though WordPress is increasingly bulletproof out of the box, security is a topic that never really goes away for users. It’s not just the platform itself that you have to worry about, there’s also a much wider world out there full of potentially bad actors with a vested interest in breaking down your digital door. SSL certificates solve one part of that puzzle and have been a rock-solid way of keeping the connection between your website and the average user secure since 1996. Cost and implementation concerns, however, have long stood in the way of their widespread deployment. In this piece, […]

Though WordPress is an increasingly bulletproof solution out of the box, there’s a huge difference between merrily clicking around in a local development environment, and how your site actually performs when people start hammering your servers for real. The time to start worrying about how your site will perform is well before it goes live, rather than when it suddenly and unexpectedly goes viral, or simply falls apart under even moderate load. For non-technical site owners or inexperienced developers, working out how to address this can present something of a conundrum, but luckily it’s relatively easily solved these days. In this […]