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WordPress website is the most popular Content Management System and powers more than 30% of the world’s websites. It is an open-source platform and so is vulnerable to possible attacks.

If you have an insecure website, you are always vulnerable for a spell, despite the website’s content or character. WordPress is not entirely insecure but is often blamed for its vulnerability for attacks and hacking, not being a safe business platform. Users follow outdated WordPress software, poor quality system administration, weak credentials, nulled plugins, and often lack technical knowledge. So that hackers could easily maintain their cybercrime games.

Some of the general WordPress security vulnerabilities that affect its performance are:

• Backdoors allow hidden passages through abnormal methods
• Pharma Hacks causing search engines to return ads for pharmaceutical products and block the site
• Brute-force Login Attempts utilize weak passwords to gain access to the website
• Malicious Redirects inject redirection codes for web traffic towards malicious sites
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) hacks the cookie or session data or even rewrites the HTML on a page.
• Denial of Service exploiting outdated and bug versions aiming at the memory of the website.

Check out a few simple tips to follow that assures the security of your WordPress website.

Choosing a Secure WordPress Hosting Company

All major web development company provides WordPress hosting and might be a bit costly, for you need utmost security. One of the simple methods to ensure website security is to go for an excellent hosting company. They offer quality services with multiple layer security for a comparatively faster WordPress website. Server hardening is the primary security move to make. It ensures the defending capability against unknown threats and virtual attacks. The website hosting server should be frequently updated with the advanced OS and security software and alternatively tested and scanned for malware.

Change your WP-login URL

You may undergo a brute force attack cracking your credentials if you leave your login URL as default. Also, you get a lot of spam if you accept user registration for subscribing accounts. Either change the admin login URL or add a security question to the login page. Two-factor authentication plugins are available for enhanced security and protection from hackers.

Limit Login Attempts

WordPress, by default, allows multiple logins, which might attract brute force attacks. Limit the login attempts to temporary blocking. So that hackers are locked before they start attacks. You can check the log in limit attempt plugin to enable this feature.

Install SSL Certificate

Install Single Sockets Layer(SSL) for the website to secure data, credentials, etc. Every data between the user and the server would be in plain text without SSL and is highly prone to attack. SSL encrypts these data before transferring, which makes it secure and unreadable to a third party. If you deny accepting any sensitive data, you don’t need to pay for the certification. Google has provided websites with an SSL certificate for its utmost important now.

Using Strong Password

Using strong credentials is another ingenious method to ensure security against hacking. They could break your password if it comprises of explicit texts or numbers without any hassle. Make strong passwords, including numbers, special characters, nonsensical letters, etc.

Disable Dashboard Editing

The dashboard includes an editor function that allows edit in your theme and plugins. After setting up the website, disable this feature so that hackers would have restricted access to the admin panel.

Installing WordPress Security Plugin

Regular malware scanning would be manually hectic, and you need security plugins for that. Install the WordPress security plugin to prevent malwares and continuous monitoring of site security. Plugins like sucuri.net provide various services like blacklist monitoring, significant security hardening, security activity auditing, file integrity monitoring, remote malware scanning, post-hack security actions, security notifications, etc.

Hide wp-config.php and .htaccess files

To improve site security, you can hide the .htaccess and wp-config.php files to prevent malware attacks and unknown access. Developers could implement this to backup the site for caution before an attack or mistake that would lead to the website being inaccessible. The process is easy, ensuring every data is safe even if anything sounds abnormal.

Update your WordPress version

To ensure high security, you should go for updating your WordPress version. Developers would update them with specific changes now and then, improving their security features. Through this, you can prevent identified loopholes and exploits used by hackers to access an account. Also, update the plugins and themes for the same process. Even though there are default minor updates for WordPress, you need to be alert for significant updates, which you can get directly from the dashboard.

Removing Nulled Themes

Premium themes from wordpress look more professional and customizable than free ones. It is highly coded and passed after multiple checkups and offered complete support. Also, they undergo regular updating, unlike nulled or cracked themes. These are illegal and hacked versions of a premium theme, including hidden and malicious codes that may disrupt your website database or credentials.

Other than this, keep in mind some simple points that help your wordpress website with better security and performance.

1. LockDown WordPress Admin
2. Two-Factor Authentication
3. Hardening wp-config.php
4. Disable XML-RPC
5. Hide WordPress Version
6. HTTP Security Headers
7. Database Security
8. Secure Connections
9. File and Server Permissions
10. Prevent Hotlinking
11. Always Take WordPress Backups
12. DDoS Protection
13. Use Latest PHP Version

Last but not least, Artificial Intelligence tools play a vital role in making a WordPress website function efficiently. WordPress now comes with diverse plugins and features, both free and affordable. These plugins add artificial intelligence to the website, which insight improves its performance and security. Neither WordPress Website development nor its maintenance is an easy task. Its constant maintenance ensures a safer and secure website for a longer duration. So that users now go for tips and implementing AI to perform tasks better that would also save time and energy. Other than these methods, WordPress websites should be maintained clean with regular updates and removing unwanted or unused plugins and themes, to prevent security issues.

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This year has brought about a lot of changes for all of us, but specifically us designers.

Luckily and thankfully, we all work jobs that give us the privilege of working from home.

And although working from home is a privilege, that doesn’t mean that remote work won’t come with its fair share of problems.

I’m sure that lots of us have experienced the pros and cons of remote working and have encountered some problems with it.

That’s why today, I want to share with you the best solution that I have to offer for all these problems, and that is renting a modular office space.

But before we get into the solution, let’s talk about the five main problems that remote design workers run into when working from home.

#1. It’s Hard to Stay Focused

When we all first started working from home, it was amazing. You could wake up when you pleased, take your calls in your PJs, and play with your pets as you wanted.

But then you realized you wanted to start cooking lunch at 12, and sneaky in a short episode of that tv show you like on Netflix, and then you needed to clean up your space, take the dogs on a walk, and oh hey, are those the neighbors outside? You should go say hello!

Working from home means it’s a lot more difficult to stay focused because there are a million other things that need to get done around the house and you’re not in your typical office space where you’re separated from that.

Getting or renting a modular office space gives you that separation so that you can stay focused and on top of your tasks.

#2. You Easily Lose Inspiration

Because you’re in the same place every single waking moment of the day, it’s incredibly easy to lose inspiration. You’re in you’re bedroom when you wake up when you work, and when you go to sleep.

You need a change of scenery and some fresh air in order to keep your inspiration levels high.

By renting a modular office, you can have a separate space where you go to, where your brain is trained to know that this is a creative space where I can work well.

As soon as you walk in, your creative wheels are guaranteed to start spinning.

#3. There’s No Start or Finish To The Work Day

When we were all in lockdown, the hours, days, weeks, and months all jumbled into one big blur. Was it February or was it May? Because it all felt the same to me.

When you work, eat, sleep, and breathe all in the same place, it’s hard to differentiate your time and work hours from relaxation hours.

You may wake up incredibly late and work til dawn, or randomly start working at 10 pm because you have no sense of reality anymore.

When you have a designated workplace, like a modular backyard office that you can rent or buy, it’s easy to create a good schedule for yourself.

Like you actually have a reason to wake up early, get dressed, and walk out to the office. Even if it’s just a few feet away from your home, it really does make that big of a difference.

You have a place that feels like a bit of normalcy, a place that inspires you to get ready by 9 and work til 5.

#4. No Separation of Work-Life + Home Life

Riding off of our last point about how it’s hard to keep a good work schedule in order, it’s also important to keep your work-life separate from your home-life.

You need a place where you can just switch off.

And our brains are crazy in the way that they associate things and feelings so quickly to certain places.

When you’re always working from your couch, you’ll no longer be able to just sit down and read a book. Oh no, your brain will tell you and try to fool you into believing you always need to be working when you sit on that couch.

Your mental health should be your top priority and by having a designated backyard office to work from, you’ll be able to switch off after work, go back inside your cozy home and have a relaxing night. No more itching to work when sitting comfortably on the couch.

#5. Difficulty Staying Organized

And one final major problem that we all run into at some point or another while working from home is the ability to stay organized.

It’s hard to keep everything tidy all the time when you’re there all day. And it’s important to have a tidy environment when you’re trying to work and create so that you can be focused and inspired.

The Solution? Renting + Buying a Modular Office

A modular office so sleek and modern, you’ll never want to leave.

And I could never recommend for you to use another modular office provider other than NOOKA.

Nooka is the first company worldwide that offers a home garden office that is smart and connected(smart lighting and smart heat control, high-speed wifi, zero human interactions for accessing it with the mobile app, smart scheduling, mobile in-app payment, air control sensors and smart furniture).

Nooka offers you 3 different styles of Nooks, the main differentiator being the size of each one.

Nooka One is 3×4 meters. Nooka Two is 6x4m and has all the standard features like smart lighting, smart access by a mobile app, wi-fi, UV light for disinfection. It also has two interior design options: single-use, with 1 working desk, or multiple-use, which has up to 6 desks. And finally, Nooka Three is 3x9m, and has extra space for more desks, and also comes with a gorgeous deck terrace.

All you have to do to get your hands on one of these beauties is to visit their website and register for one, then pay the upfront set-up fee of approximately 1,000€.

After the initial payment, they will come and set it up for you and the payment plan will be based on your monthly subscription type.

Another great thing about Nooka is that if you’re looking for a business opportunity and an amazing community, you can set up a Nook in your own town, with an extremely low initial investment, and start subleasing it to other remote workers.

Visit Nooka.com to register for your Nook today to solve all those problems you face and start working from a comfortable, beautiful, modern office space that you love!

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Rachel Andrew introducing the fact that masonry layout is going to be a thing in native CSS via CSS grid layout. The thing with masonry is that we can already do it for the most part, but there is just one thing that makes it hard: doing the vertical-staggering and having a left-to-right source order. So that’s what this new ability will solve in addition to it just being less hacky in general.

You can already test a partial implementation in Firefox Nightly by enabling layout.css.grid-template-masonry-value.enabled.

.container {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
  grid-template-rows: masonry;
}

I like the grid-template-rows: masonry; syntax because I think it clearly communicates: “You aren’t setting these rows. In fact, there aren’t even really rows at all anymore, we’ll take care of that.” Which I guess means there are now rows to inherit in subgrid, which also makes sense.

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