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My WordPress Blog Was Hacked: How to Rebuild a WordPress Site
Learn how to rebuild a WordPress site after getting hacked.
What Does PHP 5.6’s End-of-Life Mean For WordPress Users?
PHP 5.6 is the most widely used minor version of a programming language on the web. The PHP language is used on 79% of websites where the server-side language is known. PHP 5 is used on 58% of the web, and PHP 5.6 is used on around a quarter of all websites. It would not […]
Guard Against WordPress Vulnerabilities With Scanners, Theme & Plugin Security Best Practices
If it seems as if WordPress websites are hacked more often than others, there’s some truth to that theory. WordPress vulnerabilities are common – the security firm Sucuri found that a significantly large portion of websites compromised during the first three months of 2016 ran on WordPress. Sucuri investigated 11,485 compromised sites, and 78% of […]
Use Two Factor Authentication To Guard WordPress Against Brute Force Attacks
Passwords are an unquestionable means of defense against hackers. A compromised WordPress site can damage your clients’ business reputation — the kind of harm that takes a long time to recover from. Yet no matter how complicated you make a password (adding numbers and symbols), it’s still not the strongest form of protection. Hackers can […]
What Does PHP 7 Mean For WordPress Users And Developers?
PHP — the programming language behind WordPress, Magento, ExpressionEngine, and thousands of other applications — recently got its first major version bump in years. The move from PHP 4 to PHP 5 happened a decade ago, although the language has seen multiple minor version bumps in the intervening years, culminating in PHP 5.6, which was […]
