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TLS vs SSL: What’s the Difference? Which One Should You Use?
Learn the difference between TLS vs SSL, as well as which protocol you should use and why your "SSL certificate" is really a "TLS/SSL certificate".
WordPress Salts: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Use Them
Learn what WordPress salts are, how they help secure your WordPress site, and how to generate new salts and change your site's salts.
WordPress Hacked: What to Do When Your Site Is in Trouble
Learn how and why WordPress sites get hacked, the most common signs of hacks, and how to fully clean up your hacked WordPress site!
How To Password Protect Your WordPress Site: Every Method
Learn how to password protect WordPress using four different methods. Password protect your entire site, posts, categories, or parts of posts.
19 steps to protect your WordPress site from threats
There are lots of tricks and tips you can implement to harden your WordPress security. This guide explains 19 steps to lock down your site.
Is WordPress secure? Here’s what the data says
Is WordPress secure? Read this post for a data-backed look at how WordPress sites get hacked, and whether or not WordPress is actually secure.
How to Set up Sucuri Firewall (WAF) on Your WordPress Site
Traffic from bots and proxies is higher than ever before. This becomes a challenge for businesses that know nothing about how to filter out or bloc…
How SSL Works and Why It’s Important
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol used to encrypt and authenticate the data sent between an application (like your browser) and a web…
How to Stop a DDoS Attack in Its Tracks (Case Study)
Check out these tips on how to stop a DDoS attack on your site. We took a site which was hit with 5,110,00 requests in 7 days and brought it back t…
How to Prevent Hotlinking in WordPress (7 Easy Methods)
In this tutorial, you'll learn what hotlinking is, why it is bad, and how to easily prevent hotlinking on your WordPress site to save money and ban…
Free SSL Certificates and Hosting From Kinsta
Kinsta offers automatic wildcard SSLs powered by our Cloudflare integration. This means free SSL hosting and certificates for all of your WordPress…
SSL Check – How to Verify Your SSL Certificate
After you install an SSL certificate on your web server, you should always run an SSL check to verify that everything is setup correctly.