There’s no foolproof way to completely make your site secure, but there are some simple steps you can take to boost security and put up a good fight. This ebook will teach you why WordPress websites get hacked in the first place and then walk you through 11 easy ways to increase security. Ready? Let’s toughen up your site!
To help you understand how to keep your site safe, it’s important to first understand why hackers attack websites in the first place. Especially if you only run a personal blog or tiny eCommerce shop, no one should want to mess with it, right?
Not necessarily. Hackers go after websites for three main reasons:
Malware, or malicious software, can be installed in a way that makes it very hard to tell it’s even there. Great for the hackers, not so great for your site. Hackers will often do this to use your machine in larger scale attacks, such as a Denial of Service attack.
The short answer – because it’s popular. Put yourself in the mindset of a hacker for just a second. If you want to take over a lot of websites for your own nefarious purposes, would you spend all of your time trying to find vulnerabilities on a platform only used by 500 websites, or would you try to break the platform with hundreds of millions of sites? WordPress powers over 30% of all websites online, making it an extremely popular target for website hackers.
Don’t fret though; the open-source nature of the code is also what makes it strong. It is what allows hackers to find vulnerabilities and report them easily so security gaps can be patched up. It is what allows developers to help improve security over time. It is what allows third parties to create even stronger security applications that can be configured from within WordPress.
The bottom line is that your WordPress site could get hacked at any moment (that’s true for any site). But there are several things you can do to increase security and make it a little harder for hackers to mess things up.
Here’s a list of some of those extra ways to enhance your site’s security, starting with the most basic (and essential), working up to the more advanced options that may not be necessary or practical for everyone.
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