Security

We’ll introduce you to the top 9 best WordPress AI plugins of 2023, and explore the benefits they offer for various aspects of your website.

Shaumik Daityari looks at the basic functionality of the WordPress database and the importance of backing up your database, exploring three ways of doing this — via a plugin that helps you in backup, via PhpMyAdmin, and through the command line.

Nick Schäferhoff goes over how to back up WordPress remotely with the help of UpdraftPlus. The plugin is a great free option to set up basic remote backup for your WordPress site. It also has many premium options that make the experience even better.

Three out of every four WordPress websites are vulnerable to attacks. If your site is hacked, it will not only cost you in terms of restoring the system back to a safe level, but it will also damage your reputation and affect your search engine ranking. Mark Wilson offers ten tips for fixing WordPress security issues.

If you feel like you don't need to worry about DDoS attacks, this is the year to change your mind. Adrian Try shows you the best way to protect your site.

How do you keep hackers out of your secure WordPress site? A good strategy, and constant vigilance. Adrian Try lists 40 ways you can keep your site secure.

Maria Antonietta Perna discusses writing safe code in WordPress themes and shows some built-in functions you can plug into your code for added security.

Interested in getting an SSL certificate for your WordPress website? You have several options to secure WordPress and your user data - take a look!

If your WordPress installation has ever been cracked, Craig provides ten simple solutions which can enhance security within minutes.

Automattic has integrated VaultPress into Jetpack and given the plugin new security features. Chris Burgess walks you through them.

WordPress security is often an area in WordPress left neglected or done incorrectly. Read our recap with Chris Burgess in our WordPress security webinar.

Did you know that WordPress powers a third of the web, and a popular target for attackers? This week we chat to Chris Burgess on WordPress Security.

Rafay Saeed Ansari walks us through a step-by-step procedure to set IP restrictions for the WordPress login page. 

Backups are critical, yet they're often overlooked. Ryan Chang shows you how to easily create scheduled backups for WordPress for free in 5 minutes.

Firdaus Zahari walks us through the most important class when dealing with databases in WordPress - wpdb, using a series of examples with explanations.

Tim Carr reviews 3 popular WordPress management dashboards that provide one click plugin and theme updates, making managing WordPress websites a breeze.

I will show you a simple way to make sure that the themes you download are clean and you no longer have to fear the hidden malware.

Changing the default WordPress configuration permissions is one of the simplest ways to harden your WordPress website. I teach you how without plugins!

There are plenty of plugins to backup your WordPress site, yet the best way to ensure your backup works is... to do it manually! I'll show you how in 5mins.

User management on WordPress is based on WordPress roles and capabilities. Johan Satgé takes a closer look at how it works and how to control it.

Narayan Prusty covers how to create a plugin that adds a checkbox to show or hide password text (password masking) to help users to see passwords entered.

In this article, Tim Carr covers how nonces (number used once) can help keep your WordPress themes and plugins secure.

In a previous article, we looked at 10 tips to secure WordPress. In this article, we cover even more tips to further help secure your WordPress website.

In this article we look at 10 ways to help secure WordPress websites, starting with the simplest and working through to some more advanced practical tips.

In this article we show you the process of designing an admin page that writes and reads from our file system using the WordPress Filesystem API.

In this article we cover what the VIP Scanner plugin is and how use it to better harden our sites, by scanning our WordPress themes to improve code quality.

WordPress in incredibly popular, and anything that’s popular is more open to attack. In this article we show you how to help harden your WordPress site.

In this article, we show you how to enable two-factor authentication for WordPress using Google Authenticator and Google's 2-Step Verification.

In this tutorial, we are going to look at some important native functions that can secure, clean and check data that is coming in or going out of WordPress.

In this tutorial, Narayan Prusty covers some of the popular methods and plugins used to prevent brute force attacks against WordPress sites.