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12 Ways to Harden Your WordPress Website

How does WordPress hardening work, and what is the easiest way to implement this measure? Find out in this article!

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Ensuring Your Site’s Passwords Stay Secure

Compromised admin accounts are one of the most common ways a site gets hacked. Read on for ways to improve the passwords of your site to harden its security.

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What Happens When Your Site Is Blacklisted?

Have you ever been browsing the web and came across a warning saying that the page you are trying to view is not secure? Have you ever wondered why an email you sent has gone to spam?

Being blacklisted can cause your site’s traffic to fall by 95%! Read on to learn more about blacklists.

Staging Sites: What Are They and How to Use Them

Any time you make any change on your site, you risk breaking all or part of your website. Using a staging site gives you somewhere to test changes first.

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The Most Common Types of Hacks

By learning what techniques hackers use to hack our sites, we can learn how to prevent these types of hacks and better secure our WordPress sites.

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WordPress Plugins That Your Site Needs

Since WordPress has over 70,000 plugins, it can be difficult to find which ones you might need on your website. Learn which plugins we recommend you use on your site!

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How to Choose the Right WordPress Hosting

There are thousands of hosting providers for you to choose from for your WordPress site. How do you choose the right one?

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Be Prepared! Learn How to Back up Your WordPress Site

There are many things that could happen to your WordPress site. There are many situations where you would need a backup of your site to recover from. Learn how to back up your site!

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Keeping Your WordPress Site Updated

When you log into your site, you may notice new versions of WordPress, plugins, and themes. Let’s look at why you should update (sometimes right away!) and how to do it.

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Support Ticket for a Plugin? Here’s What to Include!

When getting help with a plugin, there are a few things you should add to your email/forum post to help the developer help you faster.

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Finding Quality WordPress Plugins

There are tens of thousands of different plugins available for WordPress. Some are amazing, well supported, and secure. Others are not supported at all and should not be used on your site. How do you determine if a plugin is good? Read on to learn a few things you can look at to help you tell if a plugin is good.

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Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

With site speed affecting your site’s SEO and conversion rates, it is important that your WordPress site loads as fast as possible. Check out this post to learn some ways you can keep your site loading fast.