At Templatic, almost everything we do is centered around a single objective — helping you to build a business using WordPress. Whether it’s a local business directory, a vacation rental website, a WooCommerce store or your own personal author website — Templatic themes are all about building your business. As a child, did you ever build a sandcastle on the beach? Do you remember how great it felt to build something from scratch? The sense of accomplishment and pride that came with seeing a project through to completion? Chances are you feel the same way about the business you’re building, right? But maybe you also had the experience of the tide coming in and destroying your castle. Or worse yet, maybe some kid, bigger and older that you, came along a stomped on your castle. Destroying an hour of hard work in just a few seconds. The reality is, your WordPress website is facing a similar risk. There are hackers out there who are interested in nothing more than destroying your hard work and wreaking havoc on your business. But how do you protect your website? In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the things you can do to mitigate your risk. No website is ever 100% secure. But if you can make the job of hacking your website difficult enough, there is a good chance the hackers will move on to an easier target. Why Securing Your WordPress Website is Important If you’ve invested a decent amount of time into building your business, it only makes sense that you should want to protect it. Not only are you protecting against the loss of time, you probably also protecting yourself against the potential of loss revenue and depending on your business, potentially the loss of sensitive customer data as well. Imagine spending 100 hours entering data for local businesses and then working hard to generate paid listing revenue. What if a hacker gained access to your site and started altering or deleting listings? What if they defaced the listings of your paying customers? With scenarios like this, it doesn’t take long to see why you should to take security seriously. Despite the fact that most attacks are automated and non-targeted, it’s still very possible that someone might decide to target your website specifically. Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website The most important thing to remember when... Read more »
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