Security

Would you leave the front door of your house unlocked all the time? Of course not! But, you wouldn’t believe how many site owners do just that. There are a lot of ways hackers can enter your site. Why make it easy for them by leaving the front door wide open? Read on to discover the super simple ways to secure the login of your site, plus ways to stop inviting hackers to even try.

WordPress LogoThere are two ways to install WordPress and the difference between them is simple. One way is secure and the other is not. Adding all of the plugins in the world won’t make up the security gap between them. Discover the elements that make for a secure site installation and why you want to think twice before using the 1-click installation.

What would you do if you lost your website? Or what if an update scrambled it and you could no longer access your site? Those very things happened to folks who contacted me this week for help. Sites going down happen a lot more than you think. It’s a whale of a lot cheaper to invest in prevention than to pay someone to attempt to repair or recover your site and find what caused the problem in the first place, not to mention having to rebuild it from scratch. Find out how to avoid these issues and what you can do if it happens to you.

Before you go to bed tonight unlock your front door. Open the windows too. In fact, make sure you do it when you go away and then put a note on the mailbox that you’re gone. That’s exactly the way a hacker sees a site with a weak login password, especially when the owner doesn’t login often. Read on to see how to protect your site and keep hackers away.