Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Part 1 of 2.
More and more of our customers are opting to use WordPress to build and maintain their websites. WordPress is an excellent Content Management System (CMS), and now is used for approximately 20% of websites out there.
With WordPress being so popular, it has become a target platform for hackers and spammers to attack WordPress sites. The platform is mature and secure, however there are steps every developer should take to help protect their websites from these people. Some are just common sense, and some involve adding additional plugins to your website.
While the following recommendations will largely apply to any CMS platform like Joomla & Drupal, in our examples here, we’ll be focussing on the Web’s number one CMS platform, WordPress. (more…)