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WordPress Security

Assessing Your Approach to Website Security: A Simple How-To Guide

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Security

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April 17, 2018

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Security concerns don’t have an off-season. Now is always the right time to perform an audit of the way you approach security on your clients’ websites. It’s worth noting that this is a battle you’ll often have to fight on two fronts. On one side, you’ll need to contend directly against those who wish harm to your clients’ sites. However, you may also experience some roadblocks put in place by the clients themselves. The good news is that the requirements for a safe and secure site are both minimal and achievable. In this post, we’ll look at how to determine […]

WordPress Security in 2017: What It Means for Your Website

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Beginners

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December 26, 2016

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Powering nearly 74.6 million websites, WordPress can be an inviting target for hackers. Much like other services, the platform has been the subject of numerous attacks throughout its existence, but no major vulnerabilities have been discovered inside WordPress’ core since January 2013. Security is (of course) a constant concern for many WordPress developers. Although no website is 100% secure, you can certainly make hacking difficult by maximizing your site’s security. There’s lots of good advice available to protect your website, but with WordPress constantly evolving, do the old methods of staying safe still apply in 2017? In this post, we’ll kick the year […]

Getting schooled in WordPress security at Sucuri

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Community, Featured

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November 25, 2014

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Like most of us, I consider myself pretty good at doing WordPress. I don’t develop themes or plugins, and I don’t know a lick of PHP — but I am a wizard in the WordPress dashboard! Don’t we all love setting up a brand new install? It never loses its magic: searching for the perfect theme, tweaking all the settings, and perfecting the permalinks. However, in all my years of working within the environment, nothing felt more pressing than the need to learn all about WordPress security.  So when I recently joined Sucuri to help them with their content, I […]

11 WordPress Security Tips to Keep Hackers Away

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Featured, Security

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July 14, 2014

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There is a good chance that your WordPress website is under constant attack from hackers even though you might not be aware. Unless you have a system in place that alerts you of the failed login attempts or other suspicious activity, the moment you actually find out your site has been breached is when it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s always in your best interest to proactively secure your site from spammers and hackers. The idea of setting up all of the right security settings may not be something that you joyously look forward to, but if you ask […]

Will 2014 Be Remembered as the Year of WordPress Security?

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Community, Events

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June 26, 2014

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Are you familiar with the hypothesis ‘there’s safety in numbers’? It’s the idea that by being part of a large group, an individual is less likely to be the victim of a bad event. Well, when it comes to internet security, the WordPress community has definitely proven this concept to be true. The robust community built around the open-source platform WordPress has cultivated a knowledgeable, caring, and secure environment. Wednesday at the WordPress San Francisco Meetup, Brennen Byrne (CEO and co-founder of Clef) addressed this idea head on, when he gave a presentation on how the WordPress community is building […]

iThemes Security (Formerly Better WP Security) Is Now Available

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News

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March 26, 2014

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Security is an ongoing concern for the millions of users, developers, and enthusiasts who make up the WordPress space. And in recent times people are growing more concerned. Over the past year or so, there has been a heightened number of attacks on WordPress-specific sites. So—as a result—WordPress security developers have been forced to up their game. In the realm of WordPress security, plugins are a viable option for providing protection to WordPress websites and blogs. The #1 WordPress security plugin is Better WP Security. With over 1.7 million downloads—it offers extended protection and customer support to its users. Additionally, […]

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