Acunetix WP Security (formerly known as WP Security Scan) scans your whole installation of WordPress for common security vulnerabilities. Install the plugin for your blog and visit its dashboard page. If the plugin detects vulnerabilities in your installation, then the dashboard page may show you any of the following mentioned security alerts:
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If you are using cPanel as your hosting control panel and are running a self hosted installation of WordPress, then let’s check out in this post the easiest way to manually backup and restore your blog and all its content using cPanel’s inbuilt full backup feature?
WordPress plugins are written in PHP, which is a general purpose programming language used for server side scripting in web design and development.
Plugin either enhances the existing features of your blog OR they simply add new features to it. For example, WP Smush.it plugin compresses all the images that you upload to your blog using the default media uploader of WordPress, while W3TC plugin helps you to use a Content Delivery Network with your blog.
Do you know that the images you upload in your blog’s posts and pages can be further optimized by using a simple WordPress plugin? If your answer is NO, then let’s check out in this post how a webmaster can optimize and compress his hosted images, so that bandwidth can be saved and image loading time can be improved.