WordPress sites are vulnerable to cyber invasions, including the most aggressive brute force attacks. Some platforms face hundreds or thousands of threats per week. Without strong protection against hacking and malware, your reputation, ranking, and profits will plunge. A firewall is indispensable.

If criminals hijack your admin account, they will cause massive damage. Sensitive data will be stolen, users will…

Many HEXUS readers may own, run, or maintain WordPress based websites, as it is one of the most popular web publishing platforms / CMS available. It is quite common to have an SEO plugin to help optimize certain aspects of your site structure, pages and posts for Google etc, but one such plugin was recently discovered to leave sites highly vulnerable due to an XSS vulnerability.

WordPress plugins are numerous and flaws quite commonplace, but I thought this particular flaw was worth highlighting as it has 100,000+ users and the flaw appears to have been…

If you’ve spent any time trying to grow website traffic, you’ll have heard of search engine optimization (SEO). Excelling with SEO makes it easier to attract new website visitors, netting more leads and more revenue.

Getting your SEO right takes time—and a lot of trial and error. But if you use a website built on a platform like WordPress.com, you’ve got plenty of options when it comes to increasing your visibility in search engines.

In this article, you’ll discover several ways to rank for SEO on your WordPress.com…

Security issue in CMS add-on has been patched

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin could allow an attacker to completely take over a website, researchers have warned.

The flaw made it possible for an attacker to inject arbitrary web scripts on a vulnerable site, which would execute anytime a user accessed the ‘All Posts’ page.

The vulnerable plugin, SEOPress, is installed on more than 100,000 websites.

Researcher Chloe Chamberland, threat analyst at Wordfence, explained the security issue in a blog post.

Insecure…

Leading WordPress Developers for August 2021

TopDevelopers.co publishes a list of WordPress Development Firms after analyzing them on stringent parameters and industry metrics.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, August 17, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — A content management system (CMS) enables users to create, edit, collaborate on, publish and store digital content. CMSes are typically used for enterprise content management (ECM) and web content…

Wordfence, a WordPress security software company, published details about a vulnerability in popular WordPress SEO software SEOPress. Before making the announcement, WordFence communicated the details of the vulnerability to the publishers of SEOPress who promptly fixed the issue and published a patch to fix it.

According to WordFence:

“This flaw made it possible for an attacker to inject arbitrary web scripts on a vulnerable site which would execute anytime a user accessed the “All Posts” page.”

The United States government National Vulnerability Database website listed the Wordfence…

WordPress is the largest CMS per market share, powering millions of websites and counting. The open-source software allows you to create stunning blogs, websites, and apps.

WordPress.com and WordPress.org blogging platforms are popular with bloggers, webmasters, site owners, developers, and unfortunately, hackers.

Thankfully, with two-factor authentication (2FA), your site gets an additional layer of protection by requiring a PIN code to approve logins. So how do you enable 2FA for your WordPress site?

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Moving WordPress sites is easier than it used to be. Here’s how it works at GoDaddy.

Webhosting is a sticky service because it’s difficult for non-technical people to move their files from one host to the other. But it’s getting easier, especially for people use WordPress.

Last week I moved two WordPress sites using GoDaddy’s site migration tool. (I moved from one WordPress plan at GoDaddy to another, but it necessitated setting up a new hosting account and migrating the sites. The process was the same as moving from one host to another, though.)

Here’s how it works.

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If you’re looking for a web hosting provider, you have a tremendous number of choices. In my web hosting provider comparison guide — Best web hosting providers —  I looked at 15 providers that offer a wide range of plans.

In this review, we’re going to dive into WP Engine’s offerings. 

Normally, to get a better feel for each individual provider, I set up the most basic account…