Entries by Math

Are attacks on WordPress websites a thing of the past?

Every WordPress website is hosted by a web hosting company, a company with several server security specialists. Large web hosts employ IT professionals with 30-50 years of cybersecurity experience. Many people with a WordPress website therefore assume that it is within the capabilities – and even responsibilities – of the web hoster to keep the […]

Shared webhosting

Actually every hosting package is shared, renting a server quickly costs hundreds of euros per month and nobody wants to spend that. So what does the web hoster do? It cuts the server capacity into parts. Important to realize with Shared web hosting The number of websites you share the server with can impact the […]

What is spam

Spam is unwanted email that often has a commercial background, such as advertising products or services. What makes an email spam is that you receive it without having signed up for the advertisement. How does a “spammer” get your email address? They are obtained by computers using scripts (also called BOTS) from websites that can […]

25 reasons to use WordPress for your corporate website

  WordPress is open source, free to use As they themselves have stated on their website for over 10 years, ”WordPress is free and always will be”. 95% of all web hosts support WordPress WordPress runs on PHP and MySql The installation is easy At many web hosts, it takes just a few clicks without […]

Styling your page with CSS

Quickly design some elements with CSS in your page or post, you can do it with this plugin! You download the postpage specific custom css plugin and install it. Then on every page and post you will see a box where you can throw in CSS. How easy is that! The advantages of this method/plugin: […]

Remove unnecessary images from your media library

How do you get rid of all those unused and unnecessary images in your media library? Do you have to delete them 1-by-1? And what if the image was used anyway? With the WPS cleaner plugin for WordPress you can find and remove unused images from your media library for free. The deletion can be […]

Disclosures from the WordFence security whitepaper

WordFence is 1 of the biggest in malware protection, they have an excellent firewall that they use to stop attacks from millions of unwanted IP addresses. Now they have written a white paper (which you can read here) with new revelations in the field of security and also where most problems arise. Websites that are […]

123456 not the most popular password after nine years, which one is?

According to NordPass, a ‘password manager,’ ‘password’ is currently the most used password in the world. However, ‘123456’ remains very popular – Notwithstanding that it has been number one for years, it is still very commonly used, we currently encounter ‘123456’ in second place. NordPass recently released the results of its annual survey of the […]

Do you also need to upgrade from PHP 7.4?

Did you get an email from your hosting company telling you to raise the current PHP version? Or that they are raising the PHP version for you soon? What does this mean for you? Is raising the PHP version really necessary? What now if your website crashes on php 8 and higher? We are going […]

This is how to recognize a virus file!

For me as a WordPress specialist, it’s easy to see which files don’t belong on the server. But there are also several ways you can recognize a virus file or a spam file! This is how you recognize a virus file The file has a different modification date on the server. All files have the […]