Application Security, Technology

Exploring iThemes Security Plugin to Secure WordPress websites – 2

In my previous blog on Ithemes Security, we went through Dashboard, Configuration and Global Settings. In this second part of the blog series,  A detailed understanding of sections 404 Detection, Away Mode, Banned Users will be covered. 404 Detection Hackers are always looking for vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Some...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: wordpress plugin
16-Oct-2015

Application Security

Exploring iThemes Security Plugin to Secure WordPress websites

WordPress websites are mostly an easy target for attacks due to improper file permissions and vulnerable plugins being installed. Different factors that lead to attack on WordPress sites are :- Weak Passwords Vulnerable Plugins Obsolete version of WordPress being used Possible Solution Securing WordPress is a process and it...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: wordpress plugin
23-Sep-2015

Grails

WordPress plugin : workaround to get excerpt of recent posts & only published messages

While integrating the blogs using wordpress plugin in one of the project I am working on. I observed that using current version(0.1) of wordpress plugin, when we request for recent posts, it returns not only published blogs but also blogs with status as draft(which are not yet published). Along with that, we needed to show excerpt of...

by Amit Jain
Tag: wordpress plugin
07-Aug-2009