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Posts about: WordPress Security

As one of the most popular platforms, WordPress can be a target for hackers and security vulnerabilities. However, there are many effective steps you can take to protect your site from threats and secure your website.

In this category, you’ll find expert guides like how to prevent spam, how to add security headers, and more resources to help strengthen your site’s security.

How to Fix a Hacked WordPress Website: Recovery Guide (2025)

A hacked WordPress site can disrupt your business, expose sensitive data, and hurt your reputation. Fast, organized action will help you fully recover and secure your website so you can get back online quickly. This guide gives you a clear, [...]

Secure the WordPress REST API (Without Breaking It)

The WordPress REST API is a powerful feature that enables developers to interact with a site’s data programmatically. While useful for headless setups, custom apps, and AJAX calls, it can also expose sensitive information if left unsecured. By default, the [...]

Improving Security on WordPress Sites – Optimization & Tips

At present, WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular content management system on the web. WordPress powers around 58% of all sites using content management systems, which means over 30% of all websites use this platform. Since WordPress holds such a [...]

Adding reCAPTCHA (v3) to Contact Form 7 forms

reCAPTCHA protects you from spam and other types of malicious automated abuse of your website’s forms. The Contact Form 7 plugin integrates with reCAPTCHA and with its help you can block automatic submissions by bots. The latest version of reCAPTCHA [...]

How to Change the WordPress admin URL (Login URL)

One of the most popular ways to breach WordPress sites is a Brute Force Attack. In this type of attack, hackers try many combinations of usernames and passwords in order to enter the WordPress admin interface. Especially when everyone knows [...]

What is SSL, and is it Necessary for WordPress Sites?

With a market share of 30%, WordPress is a popular system behind many business websites. Of course, this popularity makes it even more interesting and attractive for hackers and malicious attacks, which can easily damage your audience’s trust, leaving you [...]

Adding reCaptcha v2 to Contact Form 7

In versions 7.4.3 and above of the Contact Form 7 plugin, it is possible to easily add Google’s reCaptcha to forms. Google reCaptcha is a standard solution and perhaps the ideal solution for preventing spam in CF7 forms and forms [...]

Prevent Spam from Contact Form 7 forms using Akismet

Spam is a challenge every website owner faces. The moment you add a form that collects information from users, you’re almost guaranteed to receive spam, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Even simple forms with no real value to spammers [...]

How to Add and Configure Security Headers on WordPress

Security Headers in WordPress were created to protect applications from frequent and widespread attacks without the need to add or modify anything in your application's code. When it comes to securing websites or web applications, there are several aspects to [...]

Complete Guide: Migrating Your WordPress Site to HTTPS

Recently, I migrated my blog to the HTTPS protocol, and I want to share with you the process and some things I learned along the way. I also noticed that there isn’t a comprehensive guide explaining the steps to properly [...]

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