Once you are on Google’s blacklist of hacked websites, cleaning up and getting off this list is an arduous task. However, working according to a plan or a checklist until your site is clean, back online, and back in the Search Engine Results Pages is always helpful. To begin with, after you have worked on […]
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How does Google treat your hacked WordPress website?
Among Google’s website ranking factors, website security is an important one. Google boosts the ranking of secure websites and if your website is hacked, your rankings will drop. The same is the case for your WordPress sites. As many of you must have experienced, it is not easy to earn rankings; it can sometimes take […]
Should I hide my wp-admin and login URL for WordPress security?
WordPress websites are usually vulnerable to various types of attacks including brute-force attacks, SQL injections, and unauthorized logins. Many people ask whether changing the WordPress login URL (i.e. the default /wp-admin/ or wp-login.php) can genuinely enhance the security of WordPress blogs and websites. The primary reason why WordPress administrators would wish to change the URL […]
Why you need to worry about automated registrations?
In a situation where your WordPress site allows user registration, it is vulnerable to user registration spam from spam-bots. However, even if your site does not allow user registration, you may still receive spam registrations. Due to the expansion of WordPress from blogs to membership, multi-user platforms, BuddyPress, and various sites with open registration, spam users […]
Is the REST-API a security issue for WordPress?
To understand whether REST-API is a security issue for WordPress, let us first try to understand what it means, in brief. Representational State Transfer or REST is a stateless client-server protocol, mostly used over the HTTP protocol. In simpler words, it is a standard protocol that is mostly used over the web and is not specific to […]
Fix a Hacked WordPress Site?
It is a nightmare to read a message on your WordPress website saying it has been hacked. The first thing that you can do, as impossible as it may seem, is to stay calm. Here is an easy guide to help you fix your hacked WordPress website. Not all of us can handle servers and […]
