WordPress Security

I’ll never forget that day. And not just because I thought I was going to throw my computer out of the window… Ah, if only I’d used a plugin like UpdraftPlus to avoid catastrophe. The catastrophe? Let me tell you…

It’s password or bust. This is what the visitor of your WordPress site will experience when he lands on a password-protected page. In short: if he enters a password, he will be able to access your content. However, no password,…

By default, the WordPress administration login page lacks charm. It’s cold, impersonal, and rather austere. Yet it has no shortage of flatterers eager to coax it into opening the doors to your admin interface. On a daily basis, without you…

By default, WordPress is highly logical. When you install it, it assigns the prefix _wp to all the tables in your database. WP as in… WordPress, yes. I mean, it wasn’t going to make the prefix _wix or _shopify. Can…

There are some things we really don’t like to hear. A few examples come to mind: “The price of gas is going up 20 cents.” “Your rent has been raised.” “Your vacation request was not accepted.” Or, “Your WordPress site…

Emporia. Dodge City. Garden City. You’ve probably never heard the names of these three little Kansas towns. What do they have in common, apart from being located in the Sunflower State? They all have about 30,000 inhabitants. Now, imagine that…

Managing a WordPress site means going through different emotions. Sometimes, there is joy, like when you see your content slowly ranking on Google. Sometimes there is anger, when your site crashes after an update. And sometimes, you even feel fear….

A wide open mouth. Sharp fangs ready to fracture a poor little animal. An unending body that must be close to 30 feet long. Type “sucuri” on Google, and you’ll find yourself face to face with images of some pretty…

“What the hell was I thinking doing that?” Looking back, that’s the question I ask myself when I think about my first few updates on WordPress. The way I did it was, shall we say, not recommended. An example? I…

Here’s something that can make you look crazy, visually impaired, or illiterate. Or all three at the same time. This thing is a captcha. It often looks like this: Or like this: Most of the time, to validate it, you…

I’m really not easy to understand: my default code looks like Chinese.  I stand out because of my singular appearance, as my name has no extension.  I also have magical powers. If yotu set me up correctly, I am capable…

Cold sweats, screams, and even murderous urges: WordPress errors make us crazy, while giving us more anxiety than Jack Nicholson in The Shining. “White Screen of Death” (yes, it exists, and it’s not a remake of Jaws), “Database connection error”,…

Knock, knock, knock: a knock at the door. A furtive glance through the peephole: well, a complete stranger. You don’t want to let him in, you never know. In “real life”, you can easily control who comes in and out…

Askimet. Aksimet. A… what are you saying? Its name is not easy to pronounce, and sometimes confusing. But with no slip of the tongue, you should be able to get by without any trouble, trying to articulate this word. Try…

When I first started on WordPress – it’s been a while – I was a young, innocent blogger. Innocent and above all (very) carefree. I was delighted to publish my first posts and I really had no idea that a…