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11 Jun

Before You Install a WordPress Plugin, Ask These Questions

Using WordPress plugins are great way to add new and very exciting functionalities to your website. Plugins can save you time, speed up your website , improve SEO , and do much more. Plugins give web designers and developers the leverage to build sophisticated websites quicker and even better because of the functionalities they add to the website. With more than 20,000 plugins and over 330,000,000 downloads in the official WordPress plugin directory , there’s no question that plugins are an important component of WordPress and will continue to lay a pivotal role in the relevance and position of WordPress as a leading content management system. You will also want to read: How A Plugin Installation Can Crash Your Wordpress Website How to Prevent the most [...]

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22 Jan

Keep Your Website Safe From Hackers with these Easy Steps

Running a safe website is very important. Nothing is probably more frustrating than waking up to find that your website has been defaced, wiped off or seriously compromised by an attacker . Just as you want to keep our website safe from hackers, so also the attackers are devising more ways to pull down websites over the net. Also read: Website Security: A Guide For Shared Web Hosting Accounts 6 steps to clean and harden your Wordpress website Security with the Free Sucuri How to secure your website from attacks using the .htaccess file Attacks against websit ehas increased overtime especially for content management systems (CMS) whose vulnerabilites are higher because of loads of applications that run on CMSs.. But there are ways to mitigate [...]

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20 Dec

Guard Your Website Reputation: Stay Protected with SSL

SSL or Secure Sockets Layer is a standard technology for establishing an encrypted connection between a web server (host) and a web browser (client). Using an SSL secured connection between the two makes sure that all the data passed between them remain private and intrinsic. SSL is an industry standard and is used by websites to protect their online transactions with their customers. If you have ever visited a website using the https:// in the address bar you were creating a secure connection via SSL Also read: Website Security: A Guide For Shared Web Hosting Accounts 6 Ways to Protect Your Website From Security Hacks WordPress Plugins You Can't Do Without Since the announcement by Google that it was including the https protocol as a ranking [...]

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20 Dec

How to Prevent the most common Application Attacks against websites

The internet hosts a large set of applications. Apart from the core applications, there are also other applications inputed into a website. Wordresss call them plugins while Joomla call them extensions , WHMCS call them modules and there are lots of others. all aimed at enhancing the productivity of users. There are also apps like Google Docs, calculators, email, storage, maps, weather and news. Because application attacks are usually the hardest to defend against , additional care must be taken when using software like WordPress or Joomla and other complex web tools.The vulnerabilities encountered within the application layer often rely on complex user input scenarios that are hard to define with an intrusion detection signature. This layer is also the most accessible and [...]

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18 Dec

Website Security: A Guide For Shared Web Hosting Accounts

This post presumes your website is hosted on a shared web hosting plan . A shared hosting service allows the web hosting company to setup multiple websites on one server, usually using a common IP address. We have recently had some complaints on forums about web hosts placing some restrictions on hosting accounts due mainly to complaints about websites creating load issues, spamming and malware issues. Also read: Email Marketing and the Trouble With Auto-Responders How to Prevent Spam on Your Joomla Website Best Rated Anti-Spam Plugins for WordPress Websites These three had been the cardinal issues affecting all websites, irrespective of the hosting plan - shared, reseller, VPS, or dedicated servers. But some website account holders tend to blame [...]

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