Wordpress Security
Martech Zone articles tagged wordpress security:
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Content Marketing
iThemes Security Pro: The Essential WordPress Security Plugin for Self-Hosted Websites
WordPress is a popular and widely used platform for building websites, but its popularity also makes it a prime target for hackers. A colleague of mine recently told me how a client on his server installed a malicious plugin that infected every WordPress instance on his server. After he spent hours cleaning out the malware, he launched the sites and…
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Content Marketing
Jetpack: How To Record And View A Comprehensive Security & Activity Log For Your WordPress Site
There are quite a few security plugins available to monitor your WordPress instance. Most are focused on identifying users who have logged in and may have made changes to your site that could pose a security risk or configured a plugin or theme that may break it. Having an activity log is an ideal way to way to track these…
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Content Marketing
How To Create A Temporary Login To WordPress Via A Direct Link
I’ve worked across hundreds of clients with WordPress, developing themes, plugins, integrations, etc. For the most part, a tried and tested theme or plugin that has a great rating and reputation operate seamlessly on a client site. But, every so often, a plugin or theme will throw a bug or may even take down the site altogether. This week, I…
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Search Marketing
Google Search Console Goofed And Sent False Alerts on WordPress
Sometimes I scratch my head where exactly Google is going with its search console. While I do believe it’s an amazing service to detect malware on sites and prevent those sites from being listed in search results, I’m not so sure I want Google actually scanning sites looking for issues. Case in point was a premature alert that went out…
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Marketing Infographics
WordPress Safety and Security
Our site is hosted on Flywheel and we’re also affiliates because we believe it’s the best WordPress hosting platform on the planet. Because of WordPress’s popularity, it’s become a popular target of hackers. That doesn’t mean it can’t be a secure platform, though, it just means that it’s in every user’s best interest to ensure they maintain the platform, the…
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Content Marketing
Don’t Blame WordPress
90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the…