A Quick Guide for Managing Your WordPress Website

No matter what business industry your company is in and no matter what your web site is about, WordPress can give you everything you need to have a website which works perfectly. There is a reason why most web sites today use the WordPress CMS. It is the most popular in the world and due to that the interest of hackers is huge. Every WordPress web site owner must take some standard and some non-standard actions to keep their WP site secure. WordPress is an open source CMS which is a plus and a minus. It allows developers to code their own plugins and modify WordPress to suit their needs. At the same time that is a minus because it gives a chance of the hackers to inspect the code and look for vulnerabilities. They can use them later to compromise web sites and harm other web sites, servers and networks.

If you want to use WordPress to develop and run your web site then you must also know how to manage it. If you are not familiar with that you will run into problems – especially problems related to security. There are many hundreds of thousands of plugins for WordPress both free and paid. Many WP web site owners never update WordPress and the plugins/themes which usually results in security problems and their web sites being compromised. The first thing you should know is how to secure your WordPress web site.

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Let’s Talk About Hosting Security

I can certainly say that security is the biggest problem of web sites at the moment. That is confirmed by Google research as well. Thousands of web sites are getting compromised on daily basis. Then hackers use those web sites to spread malware, upload phishing web sites to steal personal information and credit cards or send junk mail. The biggest problem is that people can’t find a permanent solution to those security issues because of multiple factors. I will try to cover the most important ones in this article and show how ScalaHosting can help.

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What Are The 3 Most Important Steps to Host Magento?

It is a fact that the Magento ecommerce platform is the most used software for electronic stores. It has tons of features which makes it the best ecommerce software. One of the biggest advantages of Magento is that it is an open-source application written in PHP. That allows end users to write their own code and modify Magento to suit their needs. Merchants can also choose from hundreds of thousands of themes and plugins from Magento to extend its functionality. Thousands of experienced Magento web developers are also available to assist them. The Magento community is huge and users can always find someone to help them. We have written a detailed article about the Magento features, advantages and how to build a successful ecommerce web site with Magento.

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