Category: Website Security
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Strong Passwords for WordPress and Your Password Keeper
What we’ve been told for decades on how to make passwords, are known by hackers; those tricks make passwords that hackers guess easily.
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Is WordPress Multi-Site More or Less Secure?
What are the security issues of WordPress Multi-Site, vs several installations of WordPress on the same hosting account? What are some security steps to take on any WordPress installation?
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GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting and SSL Certificates
GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting and SSL for WooCommerce — Do you need SSL, and can you use SSL by other providers?
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Why Should You Not Host WordPress on IIS
When I mention I have clients with WordPress on IIS7 at the local WordPress Meetup (definitely go, well worth it), I invariably get snickers and disparaging comments. Some of that, especially from the less technical people, is just “Apache/MySQL/WordPress are Open Source”, and “big bad Microsoft is not as good”; it’s like cheering for your…
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WordPress Security for People Without Technical WordPress Knowledge
Making secure passwords you can remember, and WordPress Security you can do yourself. But also make sure your site hosting company is doing their part of security.
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Semalt Taking Over Your Google Analytics? Block It!
Block bad web bots from accessing your site, such as Semalt. No more Semalt taking over your Google Analytics results.
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Protect Yourself from Brute Force Login Attacks
Hackers know most people use very common passwords. Here’s how to protect yourself from hackers guessing your WordPress login name and password (a “brute force login attack”).
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Adding a Second Login to WordPress
How to make an encrypted password for your Apache server, and apply it to files or folders you want to protect. Make a two-step login for WordPress or other applications, much more secure.
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Security for Hosting Accounts, for WordPress Sites
Setting up good security for your hosting account is very important, to block malware before it affects your WordPress site. Here’s the beginning of your .htaccess security system; I’ll be writing up much more detail for you.
