Cantrust recommends All In One WP Security & Firewall All new Wordpress installs will have the first section set up already. Please see the manual steps that need attention. * WP Security (side menu)->User Login->Login Lockdown: - Enable Login Lockdown feature - Max Login Attempts - set to 10 [...]
All Production Wordpress sites hosted at CanTrust need to have an effective caching plugin installed. What is "caching" and why does my site need it? By default Wordpress has no caching. This was just fine when Wordpress was being used to display simple blogs, back in the early 2000s [...]
WP Mail SMTP helps your WordPress site send emails. In order to send emails from WordPress and ensure their receipt from mail servers, your site will need a working E-Mail plugin. Years and years ago in the 00’s, a website could just send out an email and it would work. But [...]
There is a security epidemic happening on web stores now and for the past couple of years. All of the serious cybercrime gangs are regularly attacking and skimming Woo / Magento / Zencart powered sites. Their goals are the same always, (a) to steal the wp_users table and rest of [...]
What to do when you see this PHP Update Required on your Wordpress dashboard