WordPress Security

Safeguarding Your WordPress Site: The “WordPress Security” tag offers crucial insights into protecting WordPress websites from potential threats and vulnerabilities. It covers a range of topics including securing login and authentication, implementing firewalls and malware scanning, as well as best practices for regular updates and backups. Ideal for site administrators and webmasters, this tag provides guidance on the latest security plugins, techniques, and strategies to ensure your WordPress site remains safe and resilient against cyber threats.

WordPress Audit Trail

How WordPress Audit Logs Improve User Accountability

When you have a WordPress site with multiple users contributing to it, you need to keep a record of everything that happens on your WordPress site in a WordPress audit trail (activity log). This is the first article in a 3 part series that covers the importance of activity logs in WordPress

WP Security Audit Log Plugin

Better Manage Your WordPress Users & Site Security with Activity Logs

WP Activity Log is a comprehensive activity log plugin that keeps a log of every change that happens on your WordPress sites and multisite networks. It is available as a free plugin with additional premium features.

In this plugin review we are going to highlight the benefits of activity logs on WordPress sites and multisite networks, and also look into the features of this WordPress activity log plugin.

Essential WordPress Security – Part One

One of the most pernicious myths about WordPress is that it is vulnerable to hackers. As the most popular Content Management System, running almost 60% of all websites that use a CMS, there will always be some WordPress sites that are no longer actively maintained or whose owners are simply unaware of what they need to do, so, yes, we will keep hearing about WordPress sites that have been hacked.

The truth is, however, that the huge and extremely active WordPress community, who follow the latest security trends and spring into action whenever a vulnerability is discovered, make the most secure CMS if you follow a few simple steps.

UNLOQ two factor authentication through push notifications

UNLOQ Two Factor Authentication WordPress Plugin

The new UNLOQ two factor authentication plugin protects WordPress websites from credential-related risks by increasing the security of user logins through 3 secure authentication methods, custom login URL, multi-site SSO and role-based 2FA enforcement. Free under 100 users, it features 60 seconds setup and login page customisation.

 

 

A2 Optimized

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.

Fast – Secure – Reliable Managed WordPress Hosting

Few people enjoy the hassle or have the required expertise to set up, monitor and maintain a WordPress site. Most of us value the reliability of the provider and just focus on the content of our websites. For all of us untroubled managed hosting is way to go.Β MagicPress.net is a platform offering fast, secure and reliable managed WordPress hosting.

How to Disable Password Change Notifications in WordPress

If you want to disable the email notifications for password changes of users on your WordPress site, just insert this piece of code into your theme’s functions.phpΒ file or create a custom functionality plugin and insert this code in there.

Hide My WP - Hiding WordPress Plugin

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.

Setting IP Restrictions to the WordPress Login Page

Protecting your WordPress site from hackers can be rather difficult. In fact, there is no one-solution that guarantees a 100% safe and secure site.

Studies show that tens of thousands of websites are hacked daily. Although securing your own site and the data it holds is top priority, it’s also equally important to keep your visitors’ data safe as well. Sites that don’t take proper security measures tend to face a decrease in traffic over time as they lose their credibility. This statement holds true even more in the case of e-commerce sites.

WordPress Security - Beyond WordPress Security Plugins

WordPress Security – Beyond WordPress Security Plugins

This article explains why the security of your WordPress blogs and websites should not solely depend on WordPress security plugins. It also looks into other attack surfaces a typical WordPress installation hasΒ and gives a brief overview of what you can do to address these potential attack surfaces.

7 WordPress Plugins to Beef Up Site Security

Few problems hold the collective imaginations of WordPress bloggers in the fearful grips of panic more than site security. We work hard on our content, and safeguarding it is vital to both fiscal and emotional well-being. The sad truth about the state of human affairs is the same as it’s been for the entirety of our existence: some of us a jerks. If a few have the power, knowledge, and wherewithal to dominate, destroy, or even slightly irritate others for no other reason than personal enjoyment, more than just a few will act on it.

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