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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.
WordPress Security – 19 Steps to Lock Down Your Site
There are lots of tricks and tips you can implement to harden your WordPress security. Check out our ultimate guide with 19 steps to lock down your…
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 to Prevent and Reduce Credit Card Fraud by 98% Using Stripe Radar
Credit card fraud costs businesses billions of dollars each year. Check out how we've reduced credit fraud by 98% at Kinsta using Stripe Radar.
CPU Vulnerabilities – What Kinsta Customers Need to Know
Security is of the utmost importance to us here at Kinsta. Here's what you need to know regarding the recent CPU vulnerabilities, also know as Spec…
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 Protect Images On Your Site (+ What To Do After Theft)
Image theft and copying have become a huge problem on the web. Check out how to protect images on your site, find copied images, and what to do abo…
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…