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20 May

4 Things That Will Make Your Website Unhackable

Website security is crucial for everyone. One thing that no website owner want to grapple with is a hack, an exploitation or some security compromise . The issue of a safe and secure website had been a controversial topic and many experts believe there is truly nothing like a hack-proof website. To them, it is only a matter of time before the attackers get you. Well, that reflects one extreme. However, with a number of steps as we recommend here, you can keep your website safe from attackers . Prominent among these recomendations is to keep your website updated to prevent any form of vulnerability or hack . The other is to host your website with a web hosting company that takes security very seriously. In this post, we take a look at four critical actions you [...]

04 Mar

How to Reduce Security Risks From WordPress Plugins

Plugins are necessary for enhanced functionality of each WordPress site Most WordPress users including very good coders, prefer to use plugins instead of custom codes on their WordPress website. But the more plugins you implement on your website, the higher the risk to potential threats . This post focuses on how to limit the risk of running WordPress plugins and how to generally prevent these kinds of attacks. But before we look at these preventive measures let us examine how WordPress are exploited. Related posts: WordPress Maintenance Tasks You Need to Perform Regularly Useful Tips and Tricks for WordPress Search Engine Optimization SEO Effects of Changing a WordPress Theme Common Problems with WordPress Websites and How to Fix Them [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

4 Things That Will Make Your Website Unhackable

How to Reduce Security Risks From WordPress Plugins

Before You Install a WordPress Plugin, Ask These Questions

Keep Your Website Safe From Hackers with these Easy Steps

Guard Your Website Reputation: Stay Protected with SSL

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