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What is WordPress and how to keep a safe WordPress website?

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When you first get started with WordPress, you’ll have a lot of questions about how to start and why WordPress is a good solution for your website. Here, we’ll answer some of the most common questions about WordPress, its security, and keep you from having to worry about these things for the rest of your life.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It uses WordPress.org, a free, open-source software that allows you to build your own website. WordPress is designed for publishing posts, pages, or galleries and it supports themes, plugins, and customizations that you can create.

What is WordPress security?

I’ve been using WordPress for over seven years now and I’m still amazed at how easy it is to install and how much power you can create with it. But the reality is, as nice as it is to have WordPress set up, if you’re not doing all the proper things to protect it, then you’re taking a big risk. I would argue that it’s even more critical to take a look at security and to ensure your site is doing all the right things than it is to sit down and learn WordPress.

What does “Safe WordPress” mean?

“Safe WordPress” is a process and a mindset. We all have a risk management plan for all the things that come along our paths in life – things like health and financial. You also have a risk management plan for your site. WordPress isn’t something you can go off and be complacent about. It’s important to protect yourself and your site and make sure that you’re taking the necessary steps to ensure your site stays as secure as possible.

Let’s break down what this means. There are two components to a safe WordPress website: the CMS and the code. The CMS is responsible for hosting your content and making sure that it’s always up and running. The code is what makes it happen.

You should always evaluate whether it’s still safe to use WordPress. According to OWASP, the most common WordPress vulnerabilities are Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection (which allows an attacker to take advantage of improper configuration of WordPress with the vulnerable Database, Web Server, and/or File Replication). It’s good to do regular backups to take care of issues like these and let me tell you, WordPress has its fair share of them.

If you see someone hijacking your site, get rid of the bot that you installed by clicking the button labeled “remove_next_plugin.” It won’t go away, so if you see that – you know you’re dealing with someone.

You can, use an SSL certificate to encrypt all your site’s traffic, and make sure that your site uses HTTPS instead of HTTP to navigate your site, so that it encrypts all of your user information and makes it much more secure.

If you opt for a proper SSL plugin as well as appropriate redirects and secure your site with a superior recovery plugin, you will indeed have room to make the most of your site.

The last, and probably the most important part of a safe WordPress website, is to make sure you have two-factor authentication set up. Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security to make sure that when someone is logging in, they are really who they say they are. With this layer of protection in place, if someone gets into your CMS, they won’t be able to get at your user information or even get past the login screen.

This leads to our next question:

Why should I use two-factor authentication?

Let’s say someone with malicious intent decides to hijack your WordPress site. They would need a code to login. When you login, you’ll get an SMS message or an email that has a passcode or a pin to confirm you’re really who you say you are. Once you have that pin, you would then have access to all of your site’s data.

And here’s why two-factor authentication is a must for a WordPress site:

If someone gets access to your site, they would not only have access to all of your content, they would also be able to access your bank accounts, get your credentials to Amazon or your Facebook, etc. They’d also be able to look at all of the passwords you’ve set for your WordPress account, and be able to reset your password. They could get on your bank account and take the funds. They could log in to your Amazon or Facebook account, and do the same. If they can get into your WordPress account, they could hijack other WordPress sites.

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