A nulled theme is a paid theme cracked and shared for free. Plain-English guide to what these copies hide, how to check a theme you already installed, what to do if you find trouble, and safe free options.
Bringing an old WordPress site back after years: get your logins, back up, check for a hack, then update WordPress, the theme and plugins in the safe order before changing PHP.
A sudden wave from one country is usually bots. Try three gentler steps before a country block, and learn what Too Many Requests means.
Locked out of WordPress? Six ways back in, from easiest to hardest, plus a checklist of the accounts and licences you must own yourself.
If your WordPress site keeps getting hacked after every cleanup, the infection never fully left. Where reinfecting malware hides (mu-plugins, a copy in the database, hidden admins, stolen passwords, cron, neighbouring sites) and the cleanup order that makes it stay gone.
CVE-2026-84383 is a 9.8-rated flaw in libheif, the library most servers use to read HEIC and AVIF. WordPress accepts those uploads by default and opens every one. Three commands to check your server, how to patch it, and what to do while you wait.
WordPress says "Update package not available" and stops. That one line has four different causes, from a lapsed licence to a plugin that was never licensed to your site. Here is how to tell which, and how to check whether what is installed is genuine.
Analytics only counts visitors who run JavaScript. Your access log counts everyone, including AI crawlers on your bandwidth bill and scanners probing for the actively exploited Elementor Pro flaw. How to read the log, and how to check whether you were hit before you patched.
A practical guide to WordPress GDPR compliance: what GDPR, CCPA, and PECR require; comparing Complianz, CookieYes, and Cookiebot; building a compliant cookie banner without ruining UX; using WordPress privacy tools; and the real risks of ignoring data protection law.
Learn how to set up two-factor authentication on WordPress using WP 2FA, Two-Factor, and miniOrange plugins. Covers TOTP setup, forcing 2FA for admin roles, backup codes, WooCommerce customer accounts, and emergency access recovery.
A WordPress redirect hack silently sends your visitors to casino, pharma, or spam sites without you knowing. This guide shows you exactly where redirect malware hides in WordPress — .htaccess, theme functions.php, wp_options, and fake image files — and how to find and remove every instance.
Your WordPress site has been hacked. This step-by-step guide shows you how to identify the hack, isolate and clean the site, remove malicious users and backdoors, restore from a clean backup if needed, and harden WordPress against the next attack — all without losing your content.
A complete 20-point WordPress security audit checklist to run every month. Covers core and plugin updates, user access review, file permissions, login hardening, SSL configuration, HTTP security headers, backup verification, malware scanning, and two-factor authentication enforcement.
WordFence was temporarily removed from the WordPress.org plugin directory. Learn what happened, why it was removed, what to do now, and which alternative security plugins to consider.