Security Sunday: Is WordPress Secure?
In this post, I’ll be breaking down the WordPress ecosystem along with some security best practices to help you understand whether WordPress is safe and how to protect your site from attacks.
Friday Freestyle: Top 12 Website Hardening Tips
In today’s post, we’ll be outlining the top twelve website hardening steps you can take to harden your website and enhance the security of your environment.
Thursday Tips & Tools: 25 Free Tools to Test Your Website
Regularly testing your ecommerce website’s performance will ensure it’s running at an optimal level. There are plenty of free resources available to help. Here is a list of free tools to test your website. There are tools to measure download speed, monitor user experience, test accessibility, locate broken links, evaluate search engine and browser compatibility, and check mobile friendliness. All of these tools have free plans, and most offer premium options.
Security Sunday: Cross-Site Scripting: The Real WordPress Supervillain
Cross-Site Scripting is a type of vulnerability that allows a malicious actor to inject code, usually JavaScript, into otherwise legitimate websites. The web browser being used by the website user has no way to determine that the code is not a legitimate part of the website, so it displays content or performs actions directed by the malicious code. XSS is a relatively well-known type of vulnerability, partially because some of its uses are visible on an affected website, but there are also “invisible” uses that can be much more detrimental to website owners and their visitors.
Thursday Tips & Tools: 7 Tips to Clean & Maintain Your Website
In this article I am going to give tips on how to clean your server environment so that you can reduce clutter, optimize performance, and protect your website.
Design & Dev Tuesday: What to Know about PHP and the Latest PHP Version
If you’re running WordPress sites, you’ve probably heard the term “latest PHP version” thrown around. Well-known sites like Facebook and Wikipedia are websites developed using the PHP language. Additionally, 40% of the web is powered by WordPress which is built using PHP. But, what is it? And why do you have to use the latest version?
Security Sunday: Keeping Up With PHP Updates
In this post, we’ll be going over why outdated PHP versions can lead to an increase in vulnerabilities with your website and how you can minimize these risks to protect your site and your visitors.
Design & Dev Tuesday: Loading Third-Party JavaScript
Third-party scripts provide a wide range of useful functionality, making the web more dynamic, interactive, and interconnected. These scripts may be crucial to your website’s functionality or revenue stream. But third-party scripts also come with many risks that should be taken into consideration to minimize their impact while still providing value. Why do you need to be careful about third-party scripts?
Security Sunday: Top 10 Security Tips to Keep Your WordPress Site Healthy
Follow these 10 WordPress security tips to keep your site from falling ill from malware this winter season.
Friday Freestyle: The 5 Elements (or Components) of WordPress
WordPress is an open-source, dynamic, content management system (CMS powering over one third of the world’s websites. To understand how WordPress works, we break down the 5 components that join to make the single most popular CMS in the world.