WordPress is wonderful, it allows us to create our online business very easily.
As complicated as WordPress may seem to us, can you imagine what it would be like to make your project without WordPress?
I'm telling you, very complicated.
Doing a project without a cms like WordPress would force us to know how to program or hire programmers and this would mean spending a lot of money to do what we now achieve with 2 or 3 clicks.
WordPress is so simple that sometimes we forget how powerful it is behind the scenes.
And this apparent simplicity makes us careless and do not always pay attention to the WordPress Security
One of the things that can happen to us is that our website is vulnerable to attacks and our website gets hacked. 🙁
If your website has ever been hacked, you will know how bad it is and how powerless you are.
It is something that will most likely happen to you at some time, so in this post I am going to explain what to do in the event of being hacked, but first we are going to see how to prevent it and what measures to adopt to minimize the chances of it happening to us.
Prevention better than cure
In this post I will explain what to do once we have been hacked but first we are going to try to make sure it never happens to us.
nice backups
Backups are the typical lazy thing to do and that you don't see the need for until you have a serious problem.
Configuring backups in WordPress is very simple as I explain in this tutorial.
security plugin
Installing a security plugin is the best thing you can do for the health of your website.
Your website is scarce every day and if they detect any security problem they notify you by email.
The most famous security plugins are Sucuri y Wordfence
Both are very good but Wordfence consumes more resources so depending on each website it can slow down your website a bit.
Firewall or Firewall
So much Sucuri such as Wordfence have incredible functionality, the firewall for wordpress
Sucuri has this paid version and Wordfence has a paid version and a free version.
The good thing about the firewall is that it protects you from vulnerabilities from the moment its existence is known and what is more incredible it protects you even before the vulnerability is known.
Also, in the case of sucuri, its firewall speeds up your website so that you are protected and the web is faster.
Every week they send you a report on your website, in addition to being able to see it online:
You can also see the attacks you are suffering in real time:
It gives a bit of yuyu to see the attacks we suffer without being aware 🙂
hosting quality
The quality of our web hosting is crucial, if the hosting itself has any vulnerability, it does not matter what we do on our website, we are sold.
When we are starting out, it is normal to choose the hosting for the price, but if we are serious, we need a guaranteed web hosting.
As in an offline business we have the cost of renting the premises on the internet we have the cost of hosting.
Neighbors in our Hosting
In real life we can have noisy neighbors and in our web hosting too 🙂
If we have shared web hosting, it is possible that if our neighbors are hacked they can spread the virus or malware to us.
Here the only thing we can do is have a high quality accommodation like SiteGround or better yet Kinsta.
In kinsta you are in a container by yourself and no one can spread a virus to you.
Plugins or templates not updated
Every time there is a security issue in a plugin or template it is made public and the bad they study the vulnerabilities to attack it.
If we do not update our plugin or template, it is very likely that we will be attacked.
To be aware of the vulnerabilities you can consult websites such as https://wpvulndb.com/ You can even sign up for their email notifications to be aware of any problems that exist.
What to do if you've already been hacked
To know if we have the web with viruses we can scan it from here:
If you have your website compromised, what we have to do is get it cleaned and be 100% sure that it is well cleaned so that the problem does not recur.
There are many services on the internet that do it, but the one I have tried is Sucuri
The speed with which they clean your website is incredible, they are super fast. When I have needed them I have been surprised how quickly they leave your website like a paten 🙂
Although on the web it says that they clean your website in 12 hours in my experience it has been 20 minutes what they have taken.
At a time when you are nervous and impatient, it is very reassuring to know that they solve the problem so quickly.
Of course, it is not cheap, the service to clean the web costs $199.
The good thing is that the firewall is included in the price, this way you make sure that you don't get hacked again.
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I hope you liked the tutorial 🙂