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How to Secure Your Website With Sucuri for WordPress Hosting
In this article: This article describes how to use the Sucuri plugin for WordPress to secure your website. It also explains some of the benefits of using Sucuri for WordPress. NOTICE: Sucuri for WordPress is just one way to secure your website’s data. Check out the many features WordPress Hosting by InMotion Hosting including supplementing Read More >
Measuring For Keyword Relevance
It’s never been easier to generate long lists of potential keywords for your site. These are the terms people might use to find your website in a search engine. But how do you know if the keywords you’ve selected are relevant for your site? Keyword relevance is an important factor to consider when optimizing your Read More >
Troubleshooting the Localhost Environment for WordPress
Hosting a local development site is the best way to learn more about WordPress and make custom modification to your site. In this article, you’ll learn… Why is my local site slow? Local site cannot be reached in browser Cloud alternatives for WordPress When you’re ready to take your local site online, WordPress hosting is Read More >
Connecting a Stock Image Gallery To Your WordPress Blog
Images work magic for your site. They can instantly communicate a wild array of emotions that inspire your users to act. But they’re really expensive! Serving professional, high-quality images on your WordPress site can easily cost you thousands. This is why image libraries exist. Professional photographers sell (or share) their pictures to image libraries who Read More >
How to Install and Set Up Simple Author Box for WordPress Hosting
In this article you can learn: How to Install How to Set Up Settings Author Information This article describes how to use Simple Author Box to display author information on a post. The instructions will guide you through how to install and set up Simple Author Box for WordPress Hosting. How to Install Simple Author Read More >
How to Install and Set Up Login LockDown for WordPress Hosting
This tutorial explains how to: Install Login LockDown Set Up Login LockDown This article describes how to secure your login page. You can learn how to install and set up Login LockDown to secure your WordPress website. NOTICE: Login LockDown for WordPress is just one way to secure your website. Check out the many features WordPress Hosting Read More >
How to View Softaculous Scripts with Unmet Requirements
VPS Hosting and Dedicated Hosting offers more opportunities to improve security with root access. One of the easiest ways to improve security is to uninstall out-of-date software. The Softaculous auto-installer eases the process of installing over 300 different web applications. Many of them haven’t been updated in months or years. If no one on your Read More >
How To Hide WordPress Version From Hackers
Every moment your website is online, it can be preyed upon by hackers. If you have a WordPress site, you can be certain it will be targeted at some point. The question is not if attempts will be made to compromise your site, it’s when. But there’s hope! If you follow a few basic security Read More >
How To Disable Text Highlighting and Right-click in WordPress
Your content is the most valuable resource on your site. Think about how much energy you put into creating it. What if it gets stolen? Wondering how you can make your WordPress content more secure? You can put up your best WordPress defenses with the easy-to-use, lightweight WP Security Safe plugin and its strong content Read More >
WordPress Pain Points
Despite being the most used software for websites on the internet, WordPress does have some common issues that many users deal with. These problems scare WordPress users (and potential WordPress users) into believing that it is not a good solution. However, this is far from the truth. Like any system, WordPress is not perfect. The Read More >
Defining Managed WordPress Hosting
Users or creators of websites know that a web server is a requirement. Web servers provided by hosting services can vary widely in cost and complexity. They can also range in services and options. Generally, the more options or services that you want with your hosting service, the more expensive it will be. InMotion Managed Read More >
How to Customize Top Softaculous Scripts for cPanel
Date: 09/06/2019 | 2 Minutes to Read In this article: Configure Settings Customize Top Scripts As mentioned in “How to View Outdated Installations in Softaculous,” security is everyone’s responsibility. Not only can you disable outdated scripts in Softaculous and show outdated apps on the homepage, you can also improve cPanel user’s experience by arranging more Read More >
Video Sitemap Plugins For WordPress
Videos are difficult and expensive to produce. But the marketing benefits of high-production-value videos are tempting and measurable. Video can make your site or product go through the roof in terms of traffic and overall visibility. So you need videos. But if your videos aren’t popping up in search results, what can you do? Help Read More >
WordPress Contact Form Not Sending Mail – Basic Troubleshooting
“My form was working before, but now I’m not getting emails from customers.” Or, the issue may be, “I’ve installed a contact form on my site and it’s not working at all. I’m not getting any email from this form.” Troubleshooting a contact form on your website can be a real headache. Below, you’ll find Read More >
How to Install and Set Up Hotjar for WordPress
In this article, you can learn: This article explains what Hotjar is and how you can leverage it to learn more about your users’ experience. You can also learn the steps for how to install and set up the Hotjar plugin for WordPress. Are you ready to unleash the full power of WordPress? Be sure Read More >
How to Setup BBQ: Block Bad Queries on WordPress
BBQ: Block Bad Queries is a small WordPress security plugin that does one thing: block malicious requests. The plug-and-play plugin fights SQL injections, file execution attempts, and more. For example, BBQ scans URL requests for queries searching for executable .exe files, archived .tar compression packages, hidden files with sensitive information, and bash commands such as Read More >
How to View Outdated Installations in Softaculous
Surveys ranking reasons websites get hacked almost always have the same thing listed as the #1 reason: outdated software. Sucuri.net Security, like customer service, is everyone’s responsibility. cPanel users can see the number of Outdated Installations on their Softaculous homepage. Meanwhile, VPS Hosting root users can use Web Host Manager (WHM) to check the entire Read More >
Choosing a Local Development Environment For WordPress
Interested in making a custom modification to your WordPress site? You’ve probably landed on a tutorial or blog post that gives you a snippet of code to add to a header or single post file. If you managed to add this code using the WordPress code editor you may be astonished to find your site Read More >
How to Change the Size of an Image on a WordPress Page/Post
In this article, you can learn: This article describes how to change the size of an image on a page/post using WordPress. It also provides the steps to take to add an image to a page/post using an image block. You can also learn more about additional image block settings that are available. Are you Read More >
