This is the question we asked ourselves as a software company many years ago when we switched our business to WordPress CMS. It’s hard to trust an open-source CMS where our websites will probably be hacked.
As a developer, I wanted to know how to protect my WordPress website and my clients’ websites. I started studying WordPress CMS, its weak points and strengths, and I found out that the main issue is not the WordPress core itself but the installed plugins and themes.

Beginner programmers built many free plugins and themes without any security knowledge, and frankly, they probably didn’t even care about their users. As WordPress CMS can’t work without a plugin or a theme, most probably each production website had installed, at one point, a vulnerable plugin or a theme.
How To Protect My WordPress Website
Luckily, there are many security plugins now that verify plugin integrity and vulnerability, but they can’t keep up with all the latest updates and new plugins on the market.
About 10 years ago, our company came up with the idea of creating a security plugin that would protect all vulnerable plugins and themes by blocking attacks on common WordPress URLs and Paths.
This idea led us to create the WP Ghost plugin, which allows you to replace all the common paths with hidden paths and block hackers’ bots’ access to the known vulnerable paths.

With the WP Ghost plugin, we successfully reduced the number of spamming attacks, SQL, and Script injection attacks by up to 99%. We also significantly reduced the number of Brute Force and XSS Attacks.
The best part is that WP Ghost works with all other security plugins on the market, adding multiple layers of security for each business.
Some of the popular security plugins are Wordfence, Solid Security, Shield Security, etc.
We look forward to keeping WordPress the safest open-source CMS and reducing bot attacks as low as possible.
Secure Hosting Companies
When creating a website for your business, it is also important to choose safe hosting. Many WordPress-dedicated hosting companies offer security and management.

Some of the great WordPress hosting companies are WpEngine, InMotion, CloudWays, etc.
Note! Keep in mind to choose a plan that will keep a daily backup on your website’s data.
Once you have a secure hosting plan and security plugins installed on your server, you won’t have to worry about getting hacked, and you can focus on maximizing your online business.
If you have any question, please contact us