Tag WordPress security

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What Are WordPress Salts and How Do They Protect Your Site?

What are WordPress salts? Here’s the short answer: they can help protect your WordPress website by storing user passwords and authenticating them safely. But what about the long answer? In this guide to WordPress Salts, you will find: A detailed…

Elvis Plesky
December 23, 2022

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How Can You Resolve Mixed Content Warnings in WordPress Easily?

Is your WordPress website displaying the ‘mixed content’ warning? Don’t panic. This warning can strike on any site even if you have installed a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate. The mixed content warning does not stop your site from showing…

Elvis Plesky
May 20, 2022

Podcast Season 3

Podcast | Getting Ahead of Site Security with Robert Rowley and Patchstack

The end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 saw some big security vulnerabilities in the open-source space, including log4j – something that prompted people all over the world to consider: what should we do about open-source software, contributors, and…

Elvis Plesky
March 7, 2022

Business and industry

The Truth about Managed vs Unmanaged WordPress Hosting

Quick Quiz: What Type of WordPress Hosting do you need – Managed vs unmanaged hosting? 1. Are you more of a (a) Do-it-yourself (DIY) type or b) Plug-and-play kind of person? 2. Do you usually (a) go with the flow…

Elvis Plesky
July 23, 2019

Product and technology

The WP Toolkit 4.1 Update

The WordPress Toolkit 4.1 Update - Plesk

We’re thrilled to announce the public availability of WP Toolkit 4.1. Due to the large amount of changes under the hood, we needed more time to ensure everything works. However, good things come to those who wait because here it…

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WordPress File Permissions

Different files and directories in Linux-based file system use permissions to indicate who and what can read, write, modify and access them. WordPress file permissions matter because it might want access to write to files in your wp-content directory. Permission…

Elvis Plesky
May 16, 2019

Product and technology, Security alerts

The End of Cross-Site Scripting: WordPress 5.1.1 Released

Cross-Site Scripting and WordPress v5.1.1

Older versions of WordPress make all posts vulnerable to cross-site scripting. But the cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress is a thing of the past now since the release of v5.1.1. The WordPress team have introduced several fixes in this new…

Elvis Plesky
April 16, 2019
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Plesk news and announcements, Product and technology

All You Need to Know about the New WP Toolkit 3.5 [ VIDEO ]

Your needs come first so rest assured that we’re constantly evolving Plesk to bring you more value. Hence, the release of WP Toolkit 3.5, introducing an assortment of new security measures, a reimagined installation experience and more. Read on for…

Andrey Kugaevskiy
February 28, 2019
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WordPress Security Guide 2019

With so many websites relying on WordPress it’s no surprise that millions of website owners are out looking for the best ways to secure their WordPress sites. The widespread prevalence of WordPress also makes it a target for hackers, with…

Elvis Plesky
February 21, 2019
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Featured, Product and technology, Security alerts

Guard your WordPress security: Understand SQL injections

Guarding WordPress security - SQL Injections - Plesk

We all know that WordPress has historically been very vulnerable to hacks of all sorts. So most good web hosts will practice good WordPress security measures to avoid falling victim to hacking. However, it can be hard to keep track…