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 blog or online store. The last thing you want is to discover your site has been compromised—proactive security measures are essential.
In this category, you’ll find expert guides such as how to prevent spam, instructions for adding security headers, and much more to enhance your site security.
Brute-force attacks are one of the most common threats against WordPress websites. By default, WordPress allows unlimited login attempts—which means bots can repeatedly guess usernames and passwords until they get it right. To protect your site, you can limit login [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this guide, we'll show you how to reset, or in other words, how to change the WordPress password via phpMyAdmin and via functions.php
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 [...]
Spam / Junk mail is a problem that all website owners have to deal with. The harsh truth is that if you have any kind of forms collecting information from site visitors, you’re likely to receive spam emails (spam) in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]