Why do you need to improve the security of your WordPress?

samiaseo222 · Post by **samiaseo222** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 8:08 am

It is common to find yourself in the situation of having to explain that a website is not something you build, pay for and then leave it behind . To avoid scares, subsequent and periodic maintenance of both content and security is necessary , although many times threats are not suspected until they actually occur (and believe me, if we are not careful, they do happen, oh yes, they do happen!).

To try to be illustrative, I liked to use this analogy: “Imagine that you are planning to build a wooden house. You will have to design it and build it. Then you can enjoy it but you will have to worry algeria mobile database about maintaining it, since wood needs certain treatments to withstand the passage of time or else it will rot and the house will end up falling down.” Well, the same thing happens with a website, nobody wants it to fall down anymore…

So WordPress isn’t secure? In fact, it is a secure content management system, but like any CMS, it is susceptible to attacks if not properly protected . The problematic part is not the core of WordPress, as its engineers work daily to protect it from vulnerabilities. The “problem” (note the quotation marks) is that since it is open source software, its source code is available to everyone, and this is what makes it so great but, at the same time, so dependent on good security efforts.

Let me explain. Thanks to the code, developers can create compatible themes and plugins on a daily basis, both for our clients and to make them available to everyone. This has greatly contributed to the popularity of WordPress, given that there is a huge amount of material available, both free and paid, with which to configure and customize pages. On the other hand, this code is also available to anyone who wants to look for vulnerabilities, either to correct them or to take advantage of them. And that is where the importance of being aware and actively applying those measures that allow us to improve the security of WordPress comes into play.