Basing on the customer’s request, VPSTrust would like to give a sharing related to WordPress blog security. In the process of technical support, our website hosting guru team receives many request and querry about WordPress website in general and WordPress blog in particular protection.
Before 2012, WordPress was just well-known for its simplicity and free plan, which is really convenient for bloggers. They can set up a blog with ease by WordPress CMS. In comparison with other CMS, such as Joomla! or Drupal, WordPress was more simple in features and functions. It was the reason why so many people just choose the CMS for blogging. However, since 2012, the platform’s framework enjoyed a great improvement, which turned it from an online self-publishing platform to a powerful one. There have been more than 60 million websites using WordPress and become is the most popular content management system in the world. The more popular it becomes, the more likely security issues happens. According to Google analytics, there were over 50 million website warned about malware or information stealing potentials in 2016. Therefore, website security reinforcement is really crucial for an online business. Majority hacking threats can be prevented efficiently if you are well-prepared.
The following guideline certainly helps you protect your business website from popular security threats.
Choose a strong security web host
Together with its framework, web host is one of the most important elements for strong website backbone. Similar to other types of website hosting, WordPress hosting serves its own basic function, however, a good hosting for WordPress may provide more WordPress-friendly features, such as page caching, automatic WordPress updates or data backups. They are not just added values but really useful for your daily maintenance work. SEO reinforcement specific for WordPress is also another favorable selling points.
Keep up-to-date
As I have mentioned in the previous point, automatically updates is a good feature to save you time and effort because you always have to ensure that your CMS version is the latest. It helps resolve bugs and bridges security holes at the first level. Not only WordPress version but also other plugins and themes should be updated as well.
Use SSL to encrypt data
Instead of getting the certificate by yourself, you can and should choose website hosting providers which offer SSL Certificates. It is a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which provides encrypted connection and establish trust with potential audiences. SSL. To know more about the importance of SSL Certificates with website security, you can refer to this article: How SSL Certificate works.
Use security plugins
Besides basic actions related to website backbone, you had better install additional security plugins to underpin your website security. If you are financially enough, we would like to advise you to choose premium security plugins because of its powerful features. Or else, there also exists a variety of free plugins, which can serve a basic roles. The following blog post: Top 5 free security plugins will give you some prestigious brand name.
Small actions. Huge impact.
Last but not least, we would like to remind you about very basic and small to-do tasks but really important for your security.
Strong admin password with regular update
Remove unnecessary or unused plugins
Backup your site frequently
Install a firewall on your computer
Require authentication upon login
Better safe than sorry. So take preventive actions or it will take you much more time and effort to solve an issue.
Besides the above basic tips, in case you want to further strengthen your website security, let’s drop us a message and our support team will get back to you soon. VPSTrust is offering a wide range of website management service, which includes security improvement at a very best price. Our technical guru team is here for you to focus on your business. Find more information about VPSTrust Web Security Service here.