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3 Other Reasons Why You Should Use SSL On Your WooCommerce Store

We all know that adding SSL to your store makes it more secure for your customers to conduct transactions. In fact, many payment processors actually require that you have SSL installed on your hosting.

Often people just apply SSL to their cart and checkout pages, and although that satisfies the immediate issue of securing your checkout, it means you’re missing out on tons of other benefits when you add SSL sitewide.

Josh Kohlbach September 5, 2022

BlogVault Review: Website Backups, Site Migrations, and Security Measures All in One

Can you imagine if your entire WordPress website were to suddenly crash and fail, taking all of your hard work – posts, pages, and custom designs – with it?

Me either.

Sometimes installing a new plugin or theme can cause your site to crash. Other times, a website hacker may break into your database and create a lot of design and functionality issues for your website. That’s why always having a recent backup of your entire WordPress website is so crucial to the recovery of lost data.

Today, we are going to discuss how the powerful BlogVault plugin not only backups your website, but how it keeps your website safe and secure as well.

Lindsay Liedke September 5, 2022

How to Conduct an eCommerce WordPress Website Audit Like a Jedi

Many people who sell online say that the main tool that keeps their sites relevant is the audit. They’re right because it identifies issues with the website and offers ways to resolve them. By issues, I don’t mean only technical errors but also sales opportunities!

In other words, a website audit is huge in eCommerce. Especially if the store has been running for some time. Security threats, slow loading pages, and poor SEO performance are more likely to appear as the site becomes older.

Lucy Benton September 5, 2022

A2 Optimized – All You Need for Speed & Security

As a WordPress user, there are two particular things you should pay close attention to; speed and security. If you’re not concerned with these, you should be. They could end up being extremely costly not just down the road, but right now.

Alex Ali September 5, 2022

How to Add Free SSL Certificates to WordPress With Let’s Encrypt

In this post, we’ll walk you through a step by step tutorial of installing free SSL certificates on your WordPress site with Let’s Encrypt’s automated installation.

Rafay Saeed Ansari September 5, 2022

Hiding WordPress to Avoid Attack: An Extra Layer of Site Security with Hide My WP

With large scale cyber attacks happening more often than anyone would like to admit, you might think to yourself that the chances your small WordPress website will be hacked are slim to none. After all, who would hack your website when there are so many bigger and better sites to attack?

Using WordPress as your content management system already puts you one step ahead of the rest of the online world as far as security is concerned. However, that does not make your website immune to hackers.

Today I am going to share with you why securing your WordPress website is so important and how using a security tool called Hide My WP to well…hide WordPress…can be used to help secure your website from unwanted intrusions and hacks.

Lindsay Liedke September 5, 2022

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk: A Look at the SpamFireWall

CleanTalk has released some new features since WPMayor’s original review. One particularly interesting feature is the SpamFireWall. For this review I took SpamFireWall for a spin. Here are my thoughts on using it and the benefits it can offer.

Randy A. Brown September 5, 2022

Siteground’s Security, Support, and Speed Are All You Need in a Hosting Provider

Though many companies claim to be the top dog when it comes to providing security, support, and speed to its customers, the truth is many fail to make good on their promises. And for the unknowing WordPress site owner, this can result in wasted time and money, let alone frustration.

Today we will look at SiteGround, one of the leaders in WordPress hosting, to see what services they provide website owners and ways they do make good on all of their hosting service promises.

Lindsay Liedke September 13, 2022

SnapID Plugin Offers Free, Patented Two-Factor Authentication Login For Your WordPress Site

Looking to protect your WordPress login and keep the bad guys away? SnapID gives you the ability to login to your site by sending a simple text message from your cell phone. And with “two-factor authentication”, SnapID can also be used in combination with your WordPress username and password for the ultimate protection.

David Coleman September 5, 2022

WordPress Maintenance – an Increasingly Popular and Necessary Service

Let’s face it, WordPress has its down falls… such as security risks, users accidentally deleting the database, plugin incompatibility when updating and more. We all need help some day to take care of our WordPress needs. This is where WordPress maintenance services come in.

Adam Brackbill September 5, 2022

McAfee Secure is a Glorious Way to Sell More Stuff Online

You have an online store. You want to sell more on it. (If you don’t have an online store, or if, for some reason, you want to sell less, this isn’t the post you’re looking for. Move along, please.) There are two main ways to do this: get more traffic, or increase your conversion rate (i.e. sell to more of the people who are already coming to your site).

Alyona Galea September 5, 2022

Keep Your Site Secure & Optimize Performance with Wordfence

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Mark Zahra September 13, 2022

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