Having your WordPress site hacked is one of the biggest nightmares for any website owner. From one moment to the next, your site is shut down. Traffic plummets and all the energy, effort, time, and money you put into your site is on the brink of being lost entirely. Finding and fixing the problem is hard work, however, not as hard as winning back your audience’s trust or getting your site off spam blacklists. While getting hacked is never pleasant, it is much more common than you would think. The ascent of WordPress has painted a large bullseye on the […]
Update Your Software; It’s Easy
Updates certainly aren’t the most exciting part of owning a website, especially when it comes to security. Torque has written many times about the importance of updates, not only for making sure your site runs the way it should but mostly to ensure everything is as secure as possible. Checking for and downloading updates should be part of your weekly WordPress routine. Adding something new WordPress itself, a theme, or a plugin could introduce vulnerabilities. Most of the time, someone catches them before their exploited and an update is made. Not updating regularly leaves your site open to attacks, which is why people […]
How to Fix the WordPress Mixed Content Warning
Today’s internet users are security-conscious. By installing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate and migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, you can prevent data theft and encourage even the most cautious of visitors to trust your website. However, you may encounter a number of errors when doing so, including a mixed content warning. Fortunately, there are several ways to resolve this error without rolling back those all-important SSL and HTTPS changes. By following a few simple techniques, you can continue providing your visitors with the highest level of security, with zero errors. In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to […]
Consequences of Not Updating Your WordPress Website
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 Did you know using outdated WordPress installations allows hackers to exploit your website?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 […]
How to Locate and Block IP Addresses in WordPress
There are many tasks you have to carry out when running a WordPress website, and not all of them are soul-nourishing. Having to locate and block IP addresses is one such job you’ll likely have to do, even if you wish you didn’t. However, if you can push through the icky feeling of restricting a user from accessing all or part of your site, you’ll find the process fairly straightforward. This means you can get back to work on tasks with real importance, rather than policing your visitors. In this post, we’ll look at a few different ways to locate […]
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