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Keep Your WordPress Website Safe from Hackers

WordPress Security is a vital concern for any site owner. We talk frequently about security, among other things, in warnings about themes and plugins and how to protect our sites from attacks. But security is quite from a simple point of view, and the steps you take to protect your assets have no bounds.

Have you sometimes walked out of your office, carelessly leaving your door open? Maybe more than once, right? This is natural, we are not often worried about managing potential jeopardizes until it goes out of hand. This is also very much applicable to your WordPress website. Continue reading

Replace arbitrary URL’s with custom ones

This functionality is available for PRO version.

The WP Hide plugin provides many modules through which a site owner can rewrite all default URL’s, making WordPress indistinguishable. This is a perfect strategy to keep intruders outside, as any WordPress or plugin vulnerability that gets in a hacker’s hand, will be exploited to get full access to the site. Closing all default entry points and re-writing paths to specific assets will make a penetration close to impossible.

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Replace arbitrary words from page HTML through a visual interface module

This functionality is available for PRO version.

This module helps with final touches on hiding WordPress for a website. While other plugin components take care of all urls and paths replacements, there may still be specific words and texts inside the code which are required to be changed. Using the free plugin, there was a code approach through the filter wp-hide/ob_start_callback however not everyone is comfortable doing programming. Continue reading

Set-up Wp Hide PRO for WordPress MultiSite

This functionality is available for PRO version.

Creating a network of sites with WordPress is a powerful functionality, the simplicity of set-up makes it the best option to consider. Mainly a MultiSite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. This sounds simple to manage but it become a complex problem when it come to rewrite and block specific urls while preserving compatibility. The free WP Hide & Security Enhancer plugin can handle single site WordPress install, however can’t run correctly under MultiSite environment. Continue reading

Revert the media files urls to default format

Note! This is addressed for user who used early staging versions of WP Hide. At the moment, none of urls are being saved on database, everything is processed when being outputted.

Per Documentation at Rewrite – Uploads when using the “Block uploads URL” option, it will block any access to old/default URL’s format, which otherwise are still available. If this feature is turned on, all new images inserted within posts (or any custom post type) will use the new URL format. Continue reading

XSS and CSRF security issues within AVADA Theme

The Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme is the best sold theme ever on Themeforest, so far it counted over 320k of customers. That being said, imagine the huge number of WordPress sites running on this theme.

As being widely used, is notorious thing for the Avada code to be checked by hackers to find vulnerabilities. Recently there’s been reported 2 huge impact security issues. Remember, there are automated boots which search for such theme, using a particular version which is known for being insecure.
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