Security

You spend a lot of time and effort creating beautiful, powerful websites for your WordPress clients. It can be incredibly frustrating when a well-meaning customer accidentally messes with something critical to their site’s functionality. Fortunately, there is a way you can reduce the risk of this happening. Hiding the relevant link in WordPress can prevent clients from deactivating plugins that are vital to their sites. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the issues that can arise when your clients deactivate plugins they shouldn’t. Then we’ll provide you with two methods you can use to prevent this scenario. Let’s get […]

Do you see update notifications on your WordPress dashboard and choose to ignore them? Did you know using outdated WordPress installations allows hackers to exploit your website?  According to WordPress statistics, only 36% of users have the latest version installed (as of February 2020). Many website owners choose to defer installing updates to their WordPress website for several reasons. Some may feel updates come too frequently or they cause problems to their site. But not updating your website invites a world of trouble! So today, we decided to discuss the impact of using outdated software. We also understand the pain […]

It’s a situation that we’ve all been through. You’ve just set up your WordPress page, everything looks great and you’re ready to go live and unveil your awesome website or blog. Instead of loading, you get the following message: Error establishing a database connection WordPress is a slick and intuitive system, but sometimes, errors can happen. And it’s dealing with those errors that can be frustrating for website owners and bloggers who just want their WordPress website to work. Fixing those errors should be your priority as visitors won’t be understanding towards a site that is slow, unresponsive, compromised, or even non-existent. Lucky for […]

Holding more than 28 percent of the market share and powering 74.6 million websites across the globe, WordPress is indeed one of the most sought-after Open Source CMS in the world. With enhanced usability and appealing aesthetics, WordPress truly deserves to be the world’s most recognized publishing platform. But the massive usage of WordPress and open source have made it an easy target for cybercrooks, who aim to infect the websites with malware and gain control over their operations. Hacking platforms like WordPress enable these cyber-criminals to infect a considerable number of websites in a short span of time, using […]