DKSP EP:38 – How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs and Prevent it from Hackers and Malware

10/29/16 • 13 min

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Pinterest47 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 47Shares How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs? This is one thing that every blogger on the World’s largest blogging Platform – WordPress, is worried about. Why? Because WordPress is the world’s favorite CMS platform (sarcasm intended). According to a study by the security firm Sucuri, 4 out of 5 hacked websites that they investigated were running WordPress as their content management platform. More precisely, Sucuri reveals that 78 percent of the total number of hacked websites it investigated were WordPress sites, with Joomla in a distant second, taking up only 14 percent of the data sample. Further, six percent were no-CMS websites, 5 percent were running Magento, and 2 percent were using Drupal. If you are still wondering as to what was the “sarcasm” in that earlier comment above, then let me explain. WordPress is indeed the favorite platform of everyone – both bloggers and hackers alike. And hackers don’t have to work hard to break into a WordPress Installation and take the site down. Sucuri, in its investigation found that the primary reason for WordPress sites getting hacked was outdated plugins and not the Core files itself. As for a breakdown of hacked WordPress sites, Sucuri says that a large part can be attributed to outdated plugins. There were minimal attempts to use vulnerabilities in the WordPress core itself, and crooks relied on WordPress’ popularity and its large plugins and themes ecosystem to inflict their damage. If that wasn’t horrifying enough, then let us look at some more reasons why WordPress is the favorite platform of hackers and how to secure your WordPress blogs. How to Secure Your WordPress Blogs Have you ever woken up to a Blank homepage on your WordPress blog? Or, you might have seen a page with a disastrous formatting that left you wondering as to what happened to your WordPress blog overnight. If yes, then welcome to the world of WordPress bloggers. I went through both of the above. Now, imagine if this happens to a blog with over 400 posts and you don’t even have a backup of the files and the database! I am sure you would agree that it is not the best situation to be in. And, I was in that situation too. It was after all of this that I realized how important securing your WordPress blog is. And since then I started spending a lot of time to ensure that I ring-fence my blog enough to prevent this from happening. In this episode we are going to look at why a WordPress Blog gets hacked and how to secure your WordPress blogs from hackers and spammers. Here are some of the things that we are discussing in this episode – * Why is the single most important reason for a blog getting hacked?* 2 things that you should avoid to ensure that your blog is protected* A simple plugin to update all your blogs in a single click* A readily available firewall that is free to use Resources Mentioned in this Episode These are the resources that we spoke about in this episode –

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DKSP EP:39 – Push Notifications for WordPress and Why it is a Better Alternative to Email Marketing?

Pinterest3 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 LinkedIn WhatsApp 3Shares If you are wondering as to what push notifications for WordPress is, then you have not been reading some of the top blogs in the industry. Because it is unlikely that you would have missed that notification on the top-middle of the blog as soon as you browse over to the blog. And these days, pretty much every blogger, rather I should say, website is implementing this. If you are still wondering as to what this is, then let me show something from a blog that I visit and read very frequently. That was Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneurs Journey. Do you see that small popup on top of the website, that is unobtrusive yet attention grabbing? That is an example of push notifications. You will see this being used by pretty much every blogger today. So what are these and why are business owners using these push notifications? In order for us to understand this, we will need to look at what happens after somebody clicks on that “YES” button you see in that popup. Here is an image of a sample notification. Just so that I brush up your memory, you would also have seen these notifications from Facebook, popping up at the bottom left corner of your computer. This is even if you do not have Facebook open on your computer. Now, that would have given you a fair idea of what these push notifications do and why is Facebook and a lot of the bloggers using them on their sites. Push Notifications for WordPress and Email Marketing These push notifications are a good way to stay in touch with your readers and blog visitors. In fact you can send all kind of information to your subscribers as a notification. And because of their unobtrusive nature and the fact that it cannot go unnoticed, it is a perfect replacement for Email Marketing for obvious reasons. In this episode of the DKSPeaks Podcast we will be looking at push notifications for WordPress and an in depth analysis of their benefits. Here are some of the things that we will be discussing in this episode – * How does Push Notifications work? * What are the advantages and disadvantages of Push Notifications? * What are its advantages over Email marketing and is it going to replace email marketing? * Is this the death of Email marketing? * What are the best push notification services? Resources Mentioned in this Episode We spoke about some of the best push notification service providers and their pricing structures in this episode. The below are these service providers – * Push Crew * Push Engage * Let Reach * Almost all of these services come with Free trials and you can take them for a trial before deciding on the one that is right for you. Thank You for Joining I hope you liked this week’s episode and want to thank you all for joining me. If you liked this episode you can help me build the buzz around this show by – * Taking a couple of minutes out and posting a genuine review for the show on iTunes * Rating us on iTunes as that would help in the rankings for the show. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to download an exclusive guide on “How to find Content ideas for your next blog post” and an exclusive episode of the show that is not available elsewhere. You can subscribe to the podcast using any of the below links: Click here to Subscribe via iTunes Click here to Subscribe via RSS (no...