How Attackers Gain Access to WordPress Sites By Dan Moen for WordFence. Original here. On this blog we write a lot about different vulnerabilities that could lead to site compromise. In our Learning Center we go deep on a myriad of important topics related to WordPress security. Our handy checklist, for example, includes 42 items…
Yoast SEO plugin tutorials By Marieke Van de Rakt for Yoast SEO. Original here. Do you encounter any difficulties configuring your Yoast SEO plugin? Want to know more about all features and settings of the Yoast SEO plugin? We have great news for you! Joost has made a series of Yoast SEO plugin tutorials for every…
Ask Yoast: Google PageSpeed score By Joost de Valk for Yoast SEO. Original here. In Ask Yoast we handle your SEO question! This time we received a question from Stefan Wohlert from Venlo, just around the corner here in the Netherlands. He asks: “How important is the Google PageSpeed score for SEO?” In this video we explain…
Social Media Strategy: where to begin? By Marieke Van de Rakt for Yoast SEO. Original here. Social media are a necessary part of any marketing strategy, but they should also be a part of your SEO strategy. As social media become more popular, Google and other search engines can’t ignore them any longer. Tweets and…
How to optimize your real estate site By Michiel Heijmans for Yoast SEO. Original here. There is a significant difference between a real estate site and a ‘regular’ website. Real estate sites have temporary content: when an estate is up for sale, there is a page for it online. But when it’s sold, it tends to…
Original post by Dan Moen on Wordfence.com here. During our research into what the WordPress community knows about hacked websites, we discovered that there is very little data available on the subject. We decided to conduct a survey, inviting a portion of our community to participate. We received responses from 1,605 people who reported having a website…
Images for blogs By Marieke Van de Rakt for Yoast SEO. Original here. From a SEO perspective, the text on your blog is most important. However, images for blogs are really important in getting your audience to read your post. A post with a nice photo or illustration will receive lots more attention on social…
Optimize your (WordPress) gallery By Michiel Heijmans for Yoast SEO. Original here. Optimizing your images is one thing, but optimizing a page filled with images really is another. Of course, there is a certain overlap in how to optimize a single image and a gallery. In this post, I will go over the things you need…
Get Rid of Data to Help Secure It By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. Last week I spent some time chatting with Mike Dahn who is the co-founder of the BSides information security conferences globally. He’s also organizer of BSides San Francisco and is well known and respected in information security circles. We had a…
A Backdoored WordPress Plugin and 3 Additional Vulnerabilities By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. We have several plugin vulnerabilities we’d like to bring to your attention this week. First up is a backdoor that was added to the Custom Content Type Manager plugin. The backdoor was added by a malicious coder who gained access…