Security

Let me just say it: WordPress is awesome. Millions of people have flocked to the platform and use it in their daily business. However, there’s a dark side to the growing popularity of WordPress: Because it powers more and more websites, the number of hackers and other shady individuals who target WordPress is also steadily growing. As a consequence, security is an increasing concern for all WordPress users. Yet, at the same time, it is a much neglected topic, because, quite frankly, many find it boring. You know what else is boring? Health insurance. But just like WordPress security measures, you are glad […]

When launching a new website it’s easy to get carried away with crafting the perfect design and adding great content. For many, including myself, security is merely an afterthought. However, every year attacks on WordPress websites are growing in-line with the platforms popularity. More worryingly, 70% of WordPress websites have vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit. With minimal protection, that means your precious website could be a hacker’s next play-thing – scary, right? Today I want to help you boost your WordPress website’s security with eleven simple tips you can implement right away. If you want to build a successful, sustainable […]

WordPress powers more than 20% of the web, or about 75 million sites, and is steadily becoming more pervasive. The massive WordPress community has helped secure the platform by quickly identifying and resolving bugs, glitches, and security flaws. But, as WordPress evolves so have the abilities of attackers.  WordPress security is changing rapidly—here’s what you can do to decrease your vulnerability. Protecting Yourself Against Hackers The sheer size of WordPress has made it a huge target for hackers. So, it’s important that site owners practice safe security habits–like using strong passwords, and installing trusted plugins and themes. The largest, most established websites have always […]

Conventional wisdom states that in order to secure your website with an SSL certificate, you need a dedicated IP address. For a long time that’s been true; SSL (and its successor TLS) are low-level encryption protocols with no awareness of domains, or even HTTP. Because of this, there’s historically been no way to share IP addresses between websites that each have their own SSL certificates. This has always been very inefficient on IP addresses. Without SSL, shared hosting allows you to serve hundreds, or even thousands, of websites from a single IP, whereas an IP that’s used for providing SSL […]