Due to WordPress immense popularity, it is no wonder that it draws the interest of hackers. WordPress comes with its own security measures that are constantly being updated via its auto-update feature. But is this enough? If you truly want to make sure that your WordPress website is safe, you should look into the...
Google has been pretty adamant in its efforts to make the web more secure. First, by proposing that web browsers should start flagging all HTTP pages as insecure, then by boosting search engine rankings for websites which use HTTPS. Additionally, Google has decided to place a red X in the address bar, striking through...
404 error comes when requested page not found on the web server. If you are getting multiple 404 errors on your WordPress site and you don’t have any specific page for 404. In this case, you can simply make 301 redirect all 404 requests to your website home page. To do this you don’t...
Undoubtedly, WordPress is an incredible platform of content management system (CMS). The websites developed in WordPress give many flexibilities to the SEO professionals such as ease in online optimization, gathering online traffic, high ranking at major search engines, adding customized themes and plugins and lots more. Also, it inspires the web developers to opt...
Sometimes you may face issue with your WordPress blog with error message “Error establishing a database connection”. This will make your site unavailable for you and users. You can’t access your WordPress admin dashboard. This can be the frustrating time to you. This tutorial will guide you step by step to find out the...
Many of spammers target to media attachments on your WordPress website for comments. You can disable comments on your media attachments by using WordPress plugin or adding custom PHP code in your theme file. Below is the two methods described to disable comments on media attachments. Read: How to Disable Pingbacks and Trackbacks in...
Many spammers used Pingbacks and Trackbacks to create spam content on your WordPress site. This tutorial will help you to disable pingbacks and trackbacks in WordPress. Also, remove old pingbacks and trackbacks from the database. Read: How to Disable Comments on Attachments in WordPress Step 1. Disable Pingbacks and Trackbacks Use this option to...
WordPress is the most popular content management system used world-wide. This tutorial will help you to set up password protected WordPress admin wp-admin directory and make it secure from public use. So that Step 1 – Generate .htpasswd File If you have shell access, You can generate .htpasswd file using command line. First create...
For the security purposes most of large sites specially bank websites, government sites force there users to change their password regularly. Being a system administrator I also recommend to enable password expiration for your websites, servers or applications. This tutorial will help you to enable password expiration in your WordPress website. 1. Install Required...
WordPress is a free, open source a content-management system (CMS) and blogging tool based on PHP and MySQL. This tutorial will help you to install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu system. Step 1 – Setup LEMP Stack First we will add all required PPA to our system. Following commands will add PPA for Nginx,...
