{"id":44803,"date":"2020-12-19T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T08:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/?p=44803"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:26:12","slug":"7-ways-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/7-ways-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways to Protect your WordPress site this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of will be trying to watch what we eat so that we don’t need to tighten our belts come the New Year. In this article, I want to talk about how we can ‘tighten the belts<\/em>‘ of our WordPress sites in terms of security so that we don’t have any nasty surprises on December the 25th.<\/p>\n Below are seven steps that may you want to consider. Some items are more technical than others and ideally, you will have some access to technical support who can assist you with these (if you don’t have access to such support, then why not look at our pay as you go WordPress support service?<\/a>).<\/p>\n If you are not confident with any steps below, please don’t attempt them until you are satisfied that you have adequate technical support in place.<\/p>\n If you aren\u2019t familiar with hosting and servers, then ideally your WordPress website will be hosted on WordPress specialist hosting environments such as FlyWheel<\/a>, Pagely<\/a>, or WPengine<\/a>. Because such hosting is specifically WordPress only, <\/em>and as their network & infrastructure are tuned to the specific needs of WordPress, you’ll more than likely automatically be in a more secure environment just by using them.<\/p>\nHosting<\/h2>\n