{"id":186,"date":"2015-05-17T04:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julieashti.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-09-25T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:07:26","slug":"purple-sprouting-broccoli-dreaded-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julieashti.com\/blog\/purple-sprouting-broccoli-dreaded-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple sprouting broccoli planting was underway when I got the dreaded email!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily planting out that delicious and delicate vegetable.\u00a0 The sun was shining and the soil prepared, plenty of horse manure and the plants sturdy in their seedpots..<\/p>\n<p>My husband was preparing to put some netting over the tiny plants. Last year the poor little things were eaten up in days and that was the end of that. I was ready with the hose to give them that great start that would allow us to reap the rewards later on. Preparation and protection all in place.<\/p>\n<h3>What has that to do with my online efforts?<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bgWBKNf_kvc?wmode=opaque&showinfo=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>I went inside for a coffee-break and quickly checked my emails &#8211; there it was &#8220;Malware Detected On Your (Hosting) Account&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh my! A site I hadn&#8217;t done anything with for ages was hacked &#8211; and seconds later another email made that two sites in one day!<\/p>\n<p>Was I troubled? Was I phased?<br \/>\nNot much, &#8217;cause you see, I had Most things in place to recover from disaster on those two websites.<\/p>\n<p>Ok I would have to spend a little time, but I wouldn&#8217;t lose all the content so lovingly added back in the day. I had most of the Preparation and protection in place.<\/p>\n<h3>I bet you&#8217;d like to know what was done &#8211; and what I had neglected to do&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>My backups were up to date and I knew I could just clone them if necessary.<br \/>\nI have a great hosting provider that lets me know if they detect anything suspicious and isolates the offending files immediately. OK that sometimes that breaks the site, but better that than affect or infect my visitors.<\/p>\n<h3>But &#8211; there were some things I had not done&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>WordPress core was out of date and wasn&#8217;t updating automatically.<br \/>\nSome plugins were out of date which can present a security risk.<br \/>\nI hadn&#8217;t installed what I should have in order to stop the sites being hacked in the first place. A security plugin.<\/p>\n<p>So take it from me, any site, however small and invisible can be a target for the baddies.<br \/>\nOne of the things you Must do is to Prepare and Protect your wordpress site &#8211; Right From the Start.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth the effort, and if you have several websites there are solutions to help you both at the start and ongoing.<br \/>\n<strong>These are some minimum methods that can help you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use a webhost that will alert you to problems. I use <strong>Site5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Always keep several backups of your site. One that can clone it at each stage of development &#8211; and a regular database backup will take care of ongoing posts.<\/li>\n<li>Implement your Spam reducing software &#8211; if you have nothing else, at least use Askimet which comes free with your wordpress installaton.<\/li>\n<li>Install a security plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This one is free and easy enough to implement the standard settings:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/better-wp-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">iThemes Security<\/a> (formerly Better WP Security)<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays I always install a security plugin on my websites but those two sites were made before I developed the habit. I completely forgot to install anything like that.<\/p>\n<h3>Keep WordPress, Plugins and Themes Up to Date<\/h3>\n<p>I also have a great software that logs in to my sites and updates them from just one place. It does a whole lot more too but you can read about that on their page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/621d8dnr8o1othf8lh18-j-p82.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=BP11\" target=\"_blank\">WP Pipeline<\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is an affiliate link and I will get a commission if you buy it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As it happens the hacks weren&#8217;t serious and I knew which files to replace. It wasn&#8217;t long before I was back outdoors attending to my vegetable patch.<\/p>\n<p>You might be interested in more tips. If so,<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to my blog, or better still, get updates in your mailbox for Free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily planting out that delicious and delicate vegetable.\u00a0 The sun was shining and the soil prepared, plenty of horse manure and the plants sturdy in their seedpots.. My husband was preparing to put some netting over the tiny plants. 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