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I have several other posts on how to improve the reliability of email sent via wp_mail and how to troubleshoot your WordPress email settings. Most of these posts focus on sending email. But WordPress email sent to spam is also a common problem.
How can you optimize WordPress email to make messages less likely to end up flagged as spam by the receiver?
How you set up WordPress email matters, and this simple change will fix the problem.
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With a market share of over 60% and 500+ new websites being hosted each day on the WordPress platform, there is no debate on the dominance of WordPress for content management. Yet despite being easy to use and having unparalleled functionality, WordPress comes with security risks.
Did you know WordPress accounted for a whopping 90% of hacked websites in the year 2018? Harmful backdoor files were found in over 65% of all hacked websites, and SEO spam messages in more than 50% of the them!
Poor WordPress security can severely impact your business. Here’s how:
For the WordPress site owner, it is critical to implement security measures and fix common vulnerabilities.
But how do you know what could put your website at risk?
To make your life easier, we’ve put together this list of the 5 most common issues affecting WordPress websites and their security. Let’s take a look.
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As a WordPress power user and developer for more than 15 years, I have seen a lot of changes in the WordPress universe. One thing that has not changed (thank goodness) is that the platform remains free. Additionally, there continues to be many freely available plugins.
The prevalence of free plugins reduces the barrier to entry for someone to launch a business with little or no initial capital. In fact, now with Amazon’s free trial of their AWS products, you can launch an online business with no costs other than the price of your domain. Get a domain at someplace like Cheap Domain Registration and your business could launch for less than $10.
While building and launching a business on free products can be great, there are pitfalls associated with keeping your business on the “free” model. [Read more…]