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Keeping a WordPress site from getting hacked.
WordPress Tutorials
The REST API is not an optional add-on you can switch off — the block editor and much of the admin depend on it. The real work is choosing an authentication model and deciding what anonymous callers are allowed to read.
WordPress Tutorials
The mobile app is a writing and moderation tool, not a pocket-sized wp-admin. Most of the frustration around it comes from one thing: the difference between a WordPress.com account and a self-hosted site.
Plugins
A donation is not a purchase, and treating it like one costs you money at the form. The categories differ mainly in how they handle recurring giving, receipts and donor records.
Plugins
Searching for an AI chatbot plugin and searching for a ChatGPT or Claude plugin returns two unrelated product categories, and the visitor-facing one has a failure mode the marketing never mentions: a confident answer about your refund policy that you never wrote.
Themes
For an IT firm the website is evidence, not decoration. A sluggish, jittery, over-animated site contradicts the sales copy in a way it never would for a florist.
Themes
A community site spends its life rendering pages the theme demo never shows you: threads, profiles, notifications, moderation queues. Every theme in this category is marketed on its logged-out homepage.
Themes
An admin theme changes nothing your visitors see. There are two good reasons to install one and several bad ones, and the good reasons are both about somebody else using the dashboard.
Plugins
Security plugins cover four jobs: firewall, malware scanning, login protection and monitoring. Decide which you actually need, then pick one plugin — never three.
WordPress Tutorials
Register the keys for the right version, add them to the form plugin rather than two places at once, then check that real submissions still arrive — captchas fail silently by design.
Website Building
Most compromises come from outdated extensions, weak credentials and abandoned plugins. Fix those three first — the exotic hardening tips matter far less than people claim.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress auto-updates core, and optionally plugins and themes. Turn off what you genuinely need to control — and keep security releases automatic unless something depends on it.
WordPress Tutorials
One file holds the database credentials, the salts and every constant that changes how WordPress behaves. Know where it lives, what belongs in it, and how to keep it unreadable.