WP Secure. was launched earlier this week. It protects your site from people trying to hack in. That’s important because 170,000 WordPress sites were hacked last year, and many hackers got inside the site and took over control. 🚫 41% were hacked via their hosting provider’s flaws 🚫 29% were hacked via a vulnerability in the WordPress theme they were using 🚫 22% were hacked via a vulnerability in a plugin that was installed on WordPress 🚫 8% were hacked because they used a weak password for administrative userids. (“Admin” is the default WP administrative userid... [...]

WP Secure was just released. This is a powerful WordPress plugin that will protect your sites against hackers and theft. Check out here: WP Secure. This plugin will: 🔒 Secure your WordPress sites with only a few clicks of the mouse 🔒 Hide all the signals that your site is a WordPress site 🔒 In a Click, you can secure your folders, uploads, themes, plugins and avoid theft 🔒 Deter hackers who want to take over your site 🔒 One-time low fee today can potentially save you thousands in the future. You can get your own copy here: WP Secure.  [...]

WordPress is one of the most preferred CMS when it comes to publishing and maintaining your sites online. But it needs to be safeguard from hackers. Search Engine Journal contributor Vahan Petrosyan has shared 16 useful security tips to secure your WP sites. He says, “Let’s dive into how to harden our WordPress installs in order to make life a little more difficult for attackers. Keep reading to learn more about each of these 16 ways to harden your WordPress website security: 1. Secure Your Site With HTTPS It isn’t by accident that we’ll start by securing the website with HTTPS. Everything... [...]

Your WordPress site may be a “sitting duck”, that poachers are ready to steal. The default settings for WordPress don’t fully protect you from hackers or from their botnet tools that are roaming the net looking for unprotected sites. Based on the principle that if a hacker can’t find your sensitive system files, then they can’t hack them, Matt Garrett developed BlogDefender software to hide the important files used to run your site so hackers don’t have a clue about how to hack it. For examples, if hackers don’t know which version of WordPress you are using... [...]

Darren Thompson had a problem. He noticed a large increase in traffic, but no corresponding increase in affiliate sales. As he recounts the story, “I emailed my Affiliate Account Manager and asked him if he could check their logs to see if there was a spike in sales for another account that was originating from my site. Sure enough, an account belonging to a guy in Russia had suddenly jumped with sales but the originating click reference was routed through his site and there was no way to tell where the traffic or source has come from.” His WordPress site, where he had been earning... [...]

Virtually every website on the web has been attacked or soon will be. When it happens, your life is turned upside down for weeks while you try to recover your’s site’s integrity. If your site is based on WordPress, there’s now a protective measure you can try. Sherman Fredericksen has created a plugin called WP Lock Up II that locks down your site so no hacker can comandeer it. Fredericksen’s new tool will create a secure database. It can add a Captcha challenge to your site to discourage malicious content being added by a visitor. Change default setup settings that have... [...]

WordPress blogs have 7 potential vulnerabilities t0 hackers that need to be plugged for the health of the blog and the security of its visitors. WP Secure Pro shows you how to disarm these potential security traps. Carelessness by the blog owner or a lack of awareness of the danger can leave most of the 7 issues unsolved. Your selection of a theme can make a difference. So can the plugins you use. Both may harbor malware, or may leave back doors open so malware can get in. Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos hired security expert Bill Davis to review their blogs to find security weaknesses and to... [...]

Jeff Bode has released a new WordPress plugin that creates an impressive flexible footer for calling attention to ads. The bane of marketers is banner blindness. People don’t notice and, as a result, don’t click or buy. Bode’s Super Footer Bar corrects this problem. This footer bar is always at the bottom of the page, no matter how far up or down the visitors scroll. If they scroll far enough down, the bar is below the bottom of the page, so nothing else is hidden. You can rotate up to 3 versions of the footer bar, which can contain “share buttons”, opt-in forms,... [...]

If your site is for making money, you need four fundamental facets: 1. Search Engine Optimization- so you site gets found 2. List building- so you can cultivate customers 3. Monetization- so you bring in income 4. Security- so no one hacks your site to steal your earnings Mao Flynn has bundled into one economical package, nine WP plugins, created by KME Byrne and Flynn, that address all four of these needs: • SEO Raptor Elite automates on page optimization • WP Tagizer uses the browser’s data on the keyword used to reach your page to create tags for the page, so that in the future... [...]

The normal WordPress installation process is easy but it doesn’t create an environment secure from hackers. For example, your blog has a user called “admin” that has control over the operation of the blog. But so does every other blog using the default installation process. And hackers know that. If they can get control of the admin userid, they can turn your blog into their plaything. If you get rid of “admin” and call your administrative ID something else they wouldn’t guess, that’s one less weakness for them to exploit. Bryan Doyle’s new training,... [...]