Category: WordPress Admin Tips

Every year, hundreds of thousands of WordPress blogs and websites are hacked. This leads to the question, how do I know if my WordPress site is hacked? How do I tell if my WordPress site is hacked? Sometimes it is very easy to tell, especially if a website is defaced. But most of the time, […]

With WPScan WordPress Security Scanner you can launch a security check to ensure that all your users are using strong WordPress passwords. In this WordPress security tutorial we demonstrate how to use WPScan to launch a brute force security check against a WordPress user account.

If you host your own WordPress most probably you have heard about .htaccess files and all the things you can do with .htaccess files to secure WordPress. If you are not familiar with .htaccess files in relation to WordPress you can go through our definite guide to htaccess and WordPress, where you can find all the information you need about .htaccess files and their usage in WordPress.

Having user friendly custom error pages for your website is perhaps as important as having good content. In this article we show you how to easily implement custom error pages for your WordPress website or blog with .htaccess files.

The Windows hosts file can be used to redirect requests from your computer to a website to another IP rather than the original IP or domain. In other words, if I want to run a test copy of the website www.wpwhitesecurity.com on my laptop, I configure a lightweight web server on my computer and simply add an entry in the Windows Host File to point www.wpwhitesecurity.com to 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

A WordPress website is made up from a number of files, organized in a number of sub directories. These files and sub directories are saved in a directory on a web server. This is the root directory of your site, also known as the document root.

If you are thinking of starting your own blog, the first question that comes to mind is if you should have a hosted blog with WordPress.com, or if you should host your own blog by downloading the WordPress software from WordPress.org.