99% Fewer Hacker Attacks on WordPress Sites

If you are honest, you probably don’t want to become a “security expert”, just want something very simple:

“I want my WordPress site safe so I can focus on my business, not on hackers and technical stuff.”

You see scary words like firewall, SQL injection, brute force, XSS, XML-RPC, REST API and your eyes glaze over. At the same time, you keep hearing stories about hacked sites, malware, blacklists, and lost traffic.

So let’s talk like normal people, not like security engineers.

Let me show you why most WordPress sites get hacked, what WP Ghost does differently, and how you can protect your site in a few clicks, without understanding all the jargon.

The uncomfortable truth: hackers are not “geniuses”, they are bots

Most people imagine a hacker as a person in a hoodie typing fast. In reality, most attacks on WordPress are made by bots, not humans.

A bot is just a script that:

• Jumps from one website to another
• Tries thousands of known “weak spots” in a few seconds
• Uses public lists of vulnerable plugins, themes and WordPress paths
• The moment it finds something weak, it injects bad code and moves on

Bots don’t care:

• How big your business is
• Whether you are a beginner or an expert
• If you “installed a security plugin once”

If your site uses WordPress and popular plugins or themes, you are automatically on their radar.

Why your site can get hacked even if you “did everything right”

You can:

• Use strong passwords
• Update WordPress
• Install “popular” security plugins

…and still get hacked.

The weak points are usually:

• Popular plugins with security bugs
• Themes that were not built with security in mind
• Updates that accidentally open a new hole

Hackers share lists like:

• “These versions of plugin X are vulnerable”
• “Call this URL and you can upload a file”
• “Use this query and you can read the database”

Then their bots run through the same list on every site.

They try default WordPress paths like: /wp-login.php, /wp-admin, /wp-content/plugins, /wp-content/themes/ /xmlrpc.php, /wp-json

If your site looks “standard” and uses a weak plugin or theme, it is just a matter of time.

That’s why relying only on malware scans is not enough.
By the time a scan finds something, the hack already happened.

What most security plugins actually do (and where they stop)

Many popular security plugins focus on:

• Scanning your files for viruses or malware
• Alerting you when something suspicious is detected
• Blocking some dangerous IPs or obvious attacks

This is useful, but it is mostly reactive:

1. The bot finds a known WordPress path
2. It uses a vulnerable plugin or theme file
3. It uploads malicious code
4. Later, a scanner says “Hey, something is wrong here…”

Meanwhile:

• Most of the time, you lose vital information and users’ data.
• Google might flag your site
• Your hosting might suspend you
• Your visitors might see spam pages or redirects

At that point, you are already in damage-control mode.

You wanted prevention. You got a warning after the fire started.

WP Ghost thinks differently: hide the doors, not just fix the damage

Here is the key idea behind WP Ghost:

If hackers and bots can’t find your WordPress doors and windows, they can’t easily attack your plugins, themes or login page.

Instead of just looking for viruses after the fact, WP Ghost prevents a huge part of the attacks by:

• Hiding and changing the common WordPress paths that bots always target
• Blocking suspicious requests before they reach your plugins and themes
• Protecting your login, comments and e-commerce forms from brute force bots and spammers

Think of a typical WordPress site like a house where:

• The front door is always in the same place
• The windows are in the same position on every house
• Thieves have a map of where everything is

WP Ghost moves and hides those doors and windows from bots.

To a bot, your site stops looking like a “standard WordPress target” and starts looking like something else entirely. Its scripts no longer work the way they expect.

99% fewer attacks and 10 years without a breach

Now the part that really matters to you:

What happens in real life when people install WP Ghost?

Here is what we have seen over the last 10 years, when users:

• Installed WP Ghost
• Activated Ghost Mode, Hide WordPress Common Paths and Files, 8G Firewall
• Kept their hosting security or another popular security plugin

The results:

• Around 99% drop in hacker attacks
• The remaining 1% of attacks moved to visible forms (login, reviews, etc.)
• With WP Ghost’s Brute Force protection turned on, those were blocked too

And the key fact:

In more than 10 years, we have not seen a single breach on sites that correctly used WP Ghost with these protections turned on, and none of our clients reported a successful hack after they installed and configured WP Ghost.

No “we got hacked again”.
No “we lost everything and had to start over”.

Just sites running, selling, publishing, growing.

That is why I strongly believe everyone should at least test WP Ghost as a hack-prevention plugin, not just another scanner.

Does WP Ghost replace my existing security plugin?

No, and that’s a good thing. WP Ghost is built to work together with your hosting security and other popular WordPress security plugins (Wordfence, Solid Security, etc.)

Together, they give you layers of security:

• WP Ghost focuses on preventing hacks
• Other tools help with detecting and cleaning if something ever slips through

That combination is what has kept our users safe for so many years.

What you actually need to do now

You don’t need to read a 50-page security guide.

Here’s what you, as a non-technical site owner, actually need to do:

1. Install and activate WP Ghost on your WordPress site
2. Follow the Best Practice tutorial to activate all the security features.
3. Keep WordPress, themes and plugins updated when possible
4. Keep your hosting security or extra security plugin active if you already use one

That’s it.