Website security is a sensitive process. WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS), powering millions of websites. You need to know the ways to keep your WordPress websites secure. Marketing Land contributor John McAlpin has shared 15 ways to secure your WordPress site. He says, “WordPress’s large user base makes it a prime target for hackers. Malware, backdoor and SEO spam issues account for the leading types of attacks across WordPress, according to Sucuri. What’s most relevant to SEO is how attackers are using WordPress websites to steal traffic for their own nefarious... [...]

It is very important to keep your sites secure. Hackers constantly try to damage websites, and it’s up to you to secure your website. Search Engine Journal has shared 15 ways to secure a WordPress site. The SEJ team says, “When setting up your WordPress site security, there are some basic things you can do to beef up your protection.Here are some of the first things you should implement to help protect your website. 1. Implement SSL Certificates Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates are an industry standard used by millions of websites to protect their online transactions with their... [...]

Today, you may be inviting them in with a poor choice of themes and plugins (many free ones have malware, spyware and hidden code in them. When you use those that do, your site becomes a playground for the writers of those free resources. They can read your data and use it for their own purposes. Even worse, WordPress is a standardized platform that many crooks have studied and have produced code to attack. If you use a standard WP installation, you leave your site open to the attacks from these crooks. Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos hired WordPress security expert Bill Davis to produce WP SecurePro,... [...]