Performance & Security

9 Best WordPress Security Plugins to Find and Fix Malicious Codes

WordPress Security Plugins – Compared!

Webmasters and WordPress users are always looking for the best WordPress security plugins to be safe from security unwanted security issues. Security plays a very crucial role while maintaining your business’s success. If customers do not feel secure while visiting your website, they will not spend time, and your conversion rate will drop significantly.

Let’s accept the fact that WordPress hasn’t been famous for security. In fact, more than often WordPress is regarded as a vulnerable CMS. We previously covered a comprehensive WordPress Security Guide to be safe from security issues. However, reports suggest that a large number of websites get hacked each day running WordPress.

Sucuri’s 2018 Hacked Website Report states that 36.7% of WordPress websites were using out-of-date WordPress version at the time of the hacking.

The WPScan Vulnerability Database finds out that more than 70% of vulnerabilities happen due to out-of-date software. However, the good news is, the most vulnerable versions of WordPress released back in WordPress version 3.X.

Checklist: 9 Important Things To Do Before Switching WordPress Themes

Changing WordPress theme will not make you sweat but make sure you do it right!

You love WordPress’s awesome theme collection, right? We do too! The availability of thousands of themes helped to the growth of WordPress since its inception in 2003.

Switching WordPress themes with the WordPress theme switcher dead simple, but that doesn’t mean you will have to do it back and forth. If you are not careful before changing WordPress theme, all hail can break loose. In this article, we are discussing the necessary steps to be taken while changing WordPress themes.

Why Should You Change WordPress Theme?

Modern design changes with time. The perception of good design changes rapidly. That’s why you might need to change your theme. You can change a WordPress theme manually by uploading the theme’s zip file, or you can install from the WordPress repository of themes.

Users move to the open-source platform so that they can easily modify the visual appearance of their interfaces. You can change WordPress themes to radically change the whole outlook of the website.

Most of the WordPress themes have been categorized according to major industries and occupations. Specific WordPress themes have a specific layout targeted for specific industries. For example, food themes have food-related widgets, business themes have business-related icons & layouts, blogs have simple or colorful design focused on typography.

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Why I Will Never Use Pirated/Nulled WordPress Themes or Plugins Again

Say NO to nulled WordPress themes and plugins

– Hi, Can you give me the link to download “X” Theme? I can’t seem to find that online.

Every once in a while, I get calls like this. Since I am a WordPress developer and I design WordPress websites for my clients, I often get calls like this. Clients ask me to install a nulled/pirated WordPress theme.

A few years ago, I used to explain to my clients that using free WordPress themes is a better idea for their business, but they emphasized using nulled WordPress theme. They even gave me the nulled WordPress themes to start developing the website. I did not have any complaints. If the client does not care about his WordPress security, why should I? I am just a developer, right? WRONG!

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Is WordPress Safe for eCommerce? An In-Depth Analysis

Can your eCommerce business really rely on barebones WordPress security?

Every day millions of people access the internet to buy stuff. People are spending money online more than ever before. Online sales are booming, and it is only going to get bigger from here.

If you want to create an online eCommerce store, WordPress has got your back. There is more than one WordPress eCommerce plugin to kick start your first eCommerce website.

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How to Properly Setup Cloudflare with WordPress and Take Advantage of Free SSL and CDN

WordPress with Cloudflare + SSL + CDN = Winning combination.

Cloudflare is an excellent free service that has been quietly making the web experience better for everyone. Each day Cloudflare is helping millions of website by blocking malicious attacks, DDoS attacks and more.

Why Use Cloudflare?

For instance, Cloudflare’s recent report shows that Cloudflare has blocked more than 350K DDoS attacks on average in each month of 2017.

Cloudflare accelerated the usage of SSL by providing its users with free SSL back in 2014. With Free SSL and Cloudflare CDN, you can speedup your website by a significant margin.

Since Chrome’s version 68, Google is flagging sites without HTTPS as not safe.

There’s no excuse to not use HTTPS and CDN. Cloudflare itself offers a lot of security features by mitigating DDoS attacks, preventing a data breach, providing intelligent firewall rules and more security features.

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WordPress Security – 11+ Steps to Lockdown WordPress in Case of an Emergency [2020]

WordPress security tips to recover WordPress hacked website and lockdown WordPress in case of an emergency.

WordPress security is a very important aspect of WordPress. Without proper WordPress security, you can never be sure about your business’s success. Internet live stats states that about 70000 websites get hacked every day on average. Sometimes it is wise to go 100% on security.

In this tutorial, we are covering the essential steps to lockdown WordPress in case of an emergency.

Since more than 32% of websites use WordPress to publish content every day, WordPress is targeted more for hacking. One of the most common reasons of websites getting hacked is using outdated software.

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How to Allow Users to Submit Posts to Your WordPress Site

Writing capability is certainly a divine gift. Allow users to submit posts/news to your WordPress site easily from your frontend. Discover a new world of thinking and make your site more engaging. Here is the step by step guide for you!

Want to get user-submitted posts on Your WordPress site? It’s a great opportunity to efficiently generate more traffics. Allow users to submit posts easily from your frontend. User-submitted posts are generally recognized as guest blogging.

Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers. –Brian Clark

In this article, we are going to show you how to allow guest bloggers to submit posts on your WordPress site within a few seconds!

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How to Fix WordPress Custom Post Type 404 Error [Updated 2020]

Fix custom post type 404 error easily with our beginner friendly and step by step tutorial.

Are you struggling with the custom post type error in your WordPress site? Sometimes a slight tweak could make your website inaccessible. But you know- WordPress is the most powerful CMS out there. You can easily find the solution to any problem in the WordPress community.

It can be frustrating to see the message ‘Error! 404 not found‘, while trying to access your custom post. In this short article, we are going to show you how to fix custom post type 404 errors in your WordPress site. Keep reading.

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Top 10 Ways to Improve PageSpeed on WordPress Websites [2020]

Top 10 ways to improve PageSpeed on WordPress websites by using WordPress speedup techniques.

Improve PageSpeed on WordPress websites with the best tips around the web!

WordPress is one of the most used CMSes around the world right now. More than 27% of the total websites are now built by WordPress. WordPress has made it ridiculously easy to create a blog within minutes. However, making WordPress faster has become a tough job. If you want to know the secrets to improve pagespeed on WordPress websites, you have come to the right place.

You can tinker with WordPress categories, tags, widgets, posts or pages either in localhost or in the live server. Nevertheless, if you need a higher ranking on Google and want to have good SEO then you must have to implement WordPress speed optimization techniques.

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31+ WordPress Security Tips – Ultimate WordPress Security Guide [2020]

Secure your WordPress website against scripts injections, hacking attempts, and other vulnerabilities. The ultimate WordPress Security Guide [2019]

Looking for WordPress security tips and the ultimate WordPress Security Guide? Keep reading.

Why Do I Need to Worry About WordPress Security?

WordPress Security is one of the major concerns for everyone right now. Each year thousands of WordPress built websites get hacked, lose data, lose access to the website.

Let’s face it. There is no 100% secured system in the world. That is why you need a WordPress Security Guide!

There will always be some risks in your system. However, you must take preventive actions, mitigate risks to make sure your website is not vulnerable to attacks.

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