Why Website Security Should Be A PriorityFailing to update WordPress, your themes, and plugins can lead to security vulnerabilities and impact your site speed.

Website security was, for a long time, a problem to solve for the webmasters of big corporate sites, ecommerce sites or other mission critical sites. Today it affects every website from the smallest blog to the biggest retailer. In the last few years the Internet has seen an exponential rise in malicious activity against ALL websites.

Updating WordPress is an important task though, because of new features that might impact user experience, but also security updates that help against major vulnerabilities. These is a short list of the biggest issues to WordPress security based on impact.

  • Sites not updating core.
  • Sites not updating plugins.
  • Sites not updating themes.
  • Weak passwords, without brute-force protection or two-factor authentication.
  • Hosts (professional or ad-hoc) not scanning and fixing sites.
  • Hypothetical issues not seen in practice, which distract from the above existing priorities.

Security is the most essential component of any website and you should always be focused on it. Always make sure to research and get a dependable security plug-in installed in order to make sure the configuration is right to help you with the website’s functionality. There are many people who are new to usage of WordPress and may not understand the creation and setup of security for your business website and save it from being accessed by hackers and spammers.

Usage of simple and easy passwords that can be hacked easily can cause a lot of issues to your website’s data and content. Making sure to have security layers installed and having a firewall up & working is really necessary for your business website. Make sure that your website is fully protected and the hackers are totally blocked from accessing your site. Install plugins that periodically scan for malware viruses in your plugins, theme and core of your WordPress site which should help keep it safe.

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