Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “WordPress Security”
In our most recent blog article, I ran through how to avoid WordPress update anxiety by having a process for running updates on your WordPress site. In that article I mention the idea of having a staging site. First off what is a staging site. A staging site is a duplicate or separate environment that replicates your live website. It …
WordPress update anxiety is real. That feeling you get just after pushing ‘update now’ in the WordPress back end. I like most WordPress users have been burned in the past by sites crashing or disappearing after doing what should be routine updates. The risk is it leads people to not update WordPress at all and that makes the problem a …
When I first started out in the WordPress game, WordPress was just one of many content management systems. In fact it was seen as a blogging platform and not really as a website CMS. Other tools like Drupal and Joomla were seen as more advanced website systems. I know I certainly preferred Joomla for many years. But eventually WordPress started …
Believe it or not WordPress didn’t always enable sites to update the WordPress core automatically. In fact this feature was only introduced in version 5.5 which came out in August 2020. The idea of the feature was to allow WordPress to automatically apply updates to the core software, including major releases, security updates, and maintenance releases as opposed to forcing …
WordPress is a powerful content management system (CMS) used by millions of websites worldwide, more than any other CMS in the world. Keeping WordPress update can be stressful. Over the years I’ve seen my fair share of “upgrade anxiety” so it’s easy to fall into the trap of not updating WordPress when required. As a WordPress user and website owner, …
