{"id":21223,"date":"2023-08-15T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=21223"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T08:34:43","slug":"you-should-remove-inactive-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/you-should-remove-inactive-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"You should remove inactive themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When creating a WordPress website, multiple themes are sometimes experimented with. No problem, of course, but once you have chosen a theme to continue with, it is good practice to remove the remaining <strong>inactive<\/strong> themes.<\/p>\n<h2>Why should I remove themes that are not active?!<\/h2>\n<p>The themes still exist on the server. Any data stored on the server can be used by a hacker or script to gain access to your website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And there are several reasons to remove your inactive themes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Themes you are not using take up space on the server<\/li>\n<li>Themes can serve as hiding places for backdoors created by viruses and hackers<\/li>\n<li>Themes need to be updated. They are recognized by WordPress, leading to update notifications every week\/month, even though you are not using them!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I remove everything I don&#8217;t need, just like in my house.<\/p>\n<h2>Beware of your &#8220;child&#8221; theme!<\/h2>\n<p>Many frameworks have a child theme associated with them. Customizations are made within the child theme, and you wouldn&#8217;t want to lose those. Therefore, make sure your website is not using a child theme before removing any themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When creating a WordPress website, multiple themes are sometimes experimented with. No problem, of course, but once you have chosen a theme to continue with, it is good practice to remove the remaining inactive themes. Why should I remove themes that are not active?! The themes still exist on the server. Any data stored on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}