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    All in One SEO Forced Update due to Severe Security Issue

    All in One SEO Forced Update due to Severe Security Issue A serious security issue was found in All In One SEO Plugin, affecting all versions between 4.0.0 and 4.1.5.2. The vulnerability is of the Privilege Escalation type, meaning that authenticated users with minimal rights can execute actions that are above their access level. Due to the type of the exploit and its severity, we have decided to forcefully update all affected versions of this plugin hosted on SiteGround servers to 4.1.5.3 which fixes the problem. We do not expect any negative effects on the plugin functionality or your site…

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    How to Change Fonts in WordPress to Make Your Site Unique

    How to Change Fonts in WordPress to Make Your Site Unique Table of Contents How to add new WordPress fonts to your site 1. Pick a font in the right format 2. Add the WordPress font to your site How to change fonts in the Theme Customizer Bonus: How to keep fonts from slowing your site down Important Tip: Wrap Up The days of a web ruled by white pages, black text, and blue links are fading into history. These days, if you want to get noticed your page has to “Pop”. JavaScript, CSS, and images all add to the…

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    2021 Year in Review, Quiz and Giveaway

    2021 Year in Review, Quiz and Giveaway Table of Contents Enhanced Speed & Security Performance New & Improved WordPress Tools Superior Website Management for Everyone 98% Client Satisfaction Rate Take our Recap Quiz & Win Bespoke Speakers It’s time for another roundup of all the awesome new website hosting speed, security, and management enhancements that we launched in 2021! This time, to make it even more fun, we’ll let you guess some of the facts, and enter a giveaway for 5 exclusive portable speakers! Enhanced Speed & Security Performance In the past 12 months we did a lot of work…

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    PublishPress Capabilities Forced Update due to Serious Security Vulnerability

    PublishPress Capabilities Forced Update due to Serious Security Vulnerability A couple of days ago a serious security issue with the PublishPress Capabilities plugin was discovered. Usually, we always try to protect our customers using our powerful WAF (Web Application Firewall) system and build rules to stop hacking attempts while leaving the update itself to the client’s preferences. However, due to the nature of the exploit, we couldn’t protect our clients’ sites with WAF rules so, we decided to perform an emergency update on all our active installations of the plugin. Although, we do not expect any problems associated with this update…

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    All You Need to Know On WordPress User Roles And Capabilities To Manage Them Wisely

    All You Need to Know On WordPress User Roles And Capabilities To Manage Them Wisely Table of Contents What Are WordPress User Roles The Main Types of WordPress User Roles And Their Capabilities How to Assign WordPress User Roles to Your Site Users 1. Manually 2. Automatically How to Manage and Edit WordPress User Roles and Their Capabilities  How to Manage WordPress User Roles With User Role Editor How to Create New WordPress User Roles and Capabilities With User Role Editor WordPress User Roles Security Apply The Principle of Least Privilege Implement Two Factor Authentication (2FA) Wrap Up As WordPress…

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    6 Tips To Build Your Black Friday Email Marketing Campaign

    6 Tips To Build Your Black Friday Email Marketing Campaign Table of Contents 1.Write Black Friday email subject lines that create urgency and show your offer 2. Make your email content clear and distinguishable 3. Create a Black Friday email design that stands out 4. Prepare separate emails for different contact lists Loyal or VIP customers  New customers Potential clients  5. Send three types of Black Friday emails Teaser Announcement Reminder 6. Send your Black Friday emails at the right time Black Friday emails pile up in customers’ inboxes like a heap of fallen autumn leaves. That’s why you need…

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    13 Creative Black Friday Promotion Ideas That Stand Out

    13 Creative Black Friday Promotion Ideas That Stand Out Table of Contents Black Friday promotion ideas that aren’t discounts 1. Sneak Peek for Black Friday 2. Create a Gift Guide 3.  Online Scavenger Hunt for Shoppers 4. Engage Customers with Online Scratch Cards 5. SMS Marketing for Exclusive Offers 6. Introduce a Limited Edition Product 7. Super-Fast, Free Delivery Option 8. Real-Time Live Chat Support 9. Attractive Gift Card or 2-for-1 Deals 10. Boost Sales with Free Samples or Swag 11. Offer Personalized Shopping Experiences 12. Contribute Profits to Charitable Causes 13. Participate in “Buy Nothing Day” Movement Many businesses…

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    The Best WordPress Backup Practices, Solutions and Plugins

    The Best WordPress Backup Practices, Solutions and Plugins Table of Contents The Best Solution to Back Up Your WordPress Site Without a Plugin Backing up WordPress via your hosting partner How to Back Up Your Website with a WordPress Plugin What should a WordPress backup plugin back up? What should a WordPress backup plugin do? The Best Backup Plugin for WordPress I’ve Tested UpdraftPlus Wrap Up For as long as there have been WordPress, site owners, managers, and developers have worried about how to backup WordPress. Even in the early days, WordPress was a complex system. It could do a…

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    Service in German Now Available at SiteGround

    Service in German Now Available at SiteGround In this highly globalized economy, we believe that offering services customized for the local markets is the best way to deliver better quality and more convenience for our users. That is why we are proud to announce that besides English, Italian, and Spanish, we now start to offer our hosting services in German as well. In the past few years, we have seen a growing number of customers from Germany, which has led to our decision to provide a data center location in Frankfurt. Now we are happy to attend to another need of…

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    Website Security Trick or Treating

    Website Security Trick or Treating It’s that time of year again – time to put on the costume, carve the pumpkin, and trick or treat down the block to bring candy back home. While it’s all fun and games, website owners around the world should know that hackers also have tricks on their own and are not afraid to use them on Halloween or any other day of the year. Fortunately, here at SiteGround, we take security very seriously and have a lot of tips on how to protect yourself from malicious attacks.  Play our simple game to learn a…

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    SiteGround Optimizer V6

    SiteGround Optimizer V6 Table of Contents Brand New Design and Structure New Page – The Dashboard Recommended Features Tag Improved Image Compression and Image Features Code Refactoring Since the launch of the SiteGround Optimizer plugin, we have been constantly working on adding new features, improving existing ones, and making sure that we use the best technology available to achieve a blazing fast loading speed for all of our users. That being said, we’re happy to introduce a major update to the SiteGround Optimizer plugin – v6.  Brand New Design and Structure One of the biggest changes you’ll notice is our…

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    New and Improved SG Site Scanner Security Service

    New and Improved SG Site Scanner Security Service Our SG Site Scanner service has been one of the most valued tools by our clients since we launched it back in 2017. It has helped tens of thousands of site owners to protect their sites from destructive hacks, data theft and reputation damages via early detection of malicious software. For the last four years sites subscribed to our SG Site Scanner service had their URLs crawled for suspicious code and their domain reputation checked daily. Now our clients using the service will also be able to run a thorough file scan…

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    21 Useful WooCommerce Plugins To Boost Your Woo Store Functionalities Out Of The Box

    21 Useful WooCommerce Plugins To Boost Your Woo Store Functionalities Out Of The Box Table of Contents Choosing a Plugin Paid vs. Free WooCommerce Plugins The Most Useful WooCommerce Plugins A security plugin to keep WooCommerce safe WooCommerce payment plugins WooCommerce shipping plugins WooCommerce plugins to sell different kinds of products  Product and cart plugins to help you sell more stuff WooCommerce coupon plugin to create great deals Wrap Up WooCommerce, built on top of WordPress, is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms on the web. By every metric available, it is the cheapest platform to get started with…

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    WordPress Database Cleanup: Steps and Plugins To Keep Your Site Unpolluted and Fast

    WordPress Database Cleanup: Steps and Plugins To Keep Your Site Unpolluted and Fast Table of Contents Why Clean Your WordPress Database? Steps to Take for an optimal WordPress Database Cleanup Back Up First Leftover tables in the WordPress Database Revisions Draft Posts Empty the Trash Things Not To Worry About Cleaning Transients Optimizing Tables Plugins that do all of this for you Advanced Database Cleaner Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WP-Optimize – Cache, Clean, Compress Speed Optimizer Wrap Up I’ve been managing (and mis-managing) SQL databases for almost 37 years now. SQL was the second programming language I mastered and…

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    Joining Forces with London West Ham United Premier League Club

    Joining Forces with London West Ham United Premier League Club Today is the first day of the official partnership between SiteGround and one of London’s most beloved football clubs, West Ham United, part of the English Premier League. To add to the enthusiasm from their winning streak, here is a bit of background on how this whole partnership started and, most importantly, why. Why Football? True to our European hearts, we actually have a lot of football, or soccer, as it’s known outside of the old continent, fans at SiteGround. We even have our own in-house team, which regularly ranks…

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    Our Client Area and Site Tools Turn Two!

    Our Client Area and Site Tools Turn Two! Table of Contents Revamping Our Technical Setup For a Faster & More Redundant Service UltraFast PHP for Up To 30% Faster Page Loading Faster MySQL Setup, Faster Sites Centralizing the DNS Service Collaboration & Reselling Made Easy On Our Platform Improved Web Accessibility New useful tools and features in Site Tools Multisite SFTP Key for Easy Multiple Site Management Search and Replace Tool for Easy WordPress Management Enhanced Webmail App HTML in Autoresponders Exactly 2 years ago we launched our new Client area and Site Tools. It was a huge moment for…

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    WordPress Security Plugins That Are a MUST to Keep Hackers Away

    WordPress Security Plugins That Are a MUST to Keep Hackers Away Table of Contents Exactly, what is “WordPress Security”? What are the best WordPress security plugins to secure each layer of your WordPress site? Network Firewall Application Firewall Strong Passwords …and the rest Concluding on WordPress Security Making your website secure is not a one-time thing. It’s not a switch you can flip to “SECURE” and then not worry about it again. Web security is built in layers. The point of each layer is to make it a little more difficult for bad actors to get in and do bad…

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    Centralized DNS for Faster, Safer and Easier Hosting

    Centralized DNS for Faster, Safer and Easier Hosting Table of Contents What’s under the hood of our new DNS service  What are the benefits of our new DNS service Faster Domain Resolving, Faster Website Loading Enhanced Redundancy  Seamless Migrations Between Servers  More Convenience & Ease of Use for you When will the new DNS service become available? Looking back 2 years ago at our promise to unleash a series of service enhancements after switching fully to Site Tools, we keep delivering! After launching the Ultrafast PHP, new MySQL setup on shared and cloud, SG Optimizer new features, and more, we…

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    A Critical WooCommerce Vulnerability Promptly Addressed

    A Critical WooCommerce Vulnerability Promptly Addressed Last week, the Woo team announced a critical vulnerability in the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress – WooCommerce. As described in their post, security updates were pushed to all Woo branches for users who have not disabled such updates. This was done in a very fast and efficient way. Furthermore, the Woo team has been extremely cooperative with providing all the needed information that allowed us to proactively add security rules to our WAF (Web Application Firewall) for an additional layer of protection. Read below to learn more about all actions taken and…

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    One Multisite SFTP to Rule Them All

    One Multisite SFTP to Rule Them All This summer has been especially hot at SiteGround because new features come up one after the other. The latest addition to our platform is the option for Multisite SFTP access with a single SSH key. From now on, people that manage multiple sites on our platform will no longer have to use a separate SSH key for each of their sites in order to be able to securely upload files over SFTP. The Multisite SFTP Access can be used for all the sites you own or are added as a collaborator in a…

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    WordPress Security Experts: Most Common Backdoors for Hackers and How to Avoid Them

    WordPress Security Experts: Most Common Backdoors for Hackers and How to Avoid Them Table of Contents Top 5 common ways for WordPress sites to be hacked in 2021 Most hackers don’t care about your site’s popularity according to our security experts How does site security affect SEO? Site security is something you have to constantly work on How can your web host help in keeping sites secure? Having a reliable and secure WordPress website  is critical for both your business and your users. For one thing, not having to worry about someone hacking your website and destroying years of work…

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    What is XMLRPC and How This WordPress’ Vestigial Tail Threatens Your Website Security

    What is XMLRPC and How This WordPress’ Vestigial Tail Threatens Your Website Security Table of Contents What is XMLRPC? How does XMLRPC work? Potential security threats from WordPress’ XMLRPC Brute Force Attacks via XMLRPC DDoS attacks using XMLRPC How to disable XMLRPC in WordPress Through your webserver’s config file  Through your theme’s functions.php file Installing a plugin In the root directory of every WordPress site is a file, xmlrpc.php that actually predates WordPress itself. Back before WordPress, during the b2 days, this file was created to give sites a way to communicate with each other and for other applications to…

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    Enhanced Protection Against WordPress Vulnerabilities with SiteGround Security Plugin Preinstalled

    Enhanced Protection Against WordPress Vulnerabilities with SiteGround Security Plugin Preinstalled Table of Contents Default SiteGround Security Settings Against Common WordPress Vulnerabilities  WordPress Version is Hidden by default Advanced XSS Vulnerability Protection enabled Disabled XML-RPC protocol to prevent many vulnerabilities and attacks NOTE: Option to Disable RSS and ATOM Feeds  Lock and Protect System Folders by default Disabled “Admin” Username  Disabled Themes & Plugins Editor Recommended Vulnerabilities Protection Settings Two-Factor Authentication is a MUST Limit Login Attempts  More Tools Against WordPress Vulnerabilities Coming Up We have recently launched our own WordPress security plugin — SiteGround Security (now named Security Optimizer), which…

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    Data Safety and Disaster Recovery Policies at SiteGround Hosting (that just got better!)

    Data Safety and Disaster Recovery Policies at SiteGround Hosting (that just got better!) Data storage and safety are key components of our web hosting service. That is why we are extremely conscious of keeping your websites frequently backed up and safeguarding those copies in good status for a potential future usage. Having been in the business for 17 years, we have witnessed different incidents seriously affecting or threatening different hosting providers around the world. There have been hurricanes in close proximity to big data centers, power outages due to a state emergency, and quite recently, we all saw how a…

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    Security Optimizer (formerly SiteGround Security) – our new must-have WordPress plugin

    Security Optimizer (formerly SiteGround Security) – our new must-have WordPress plugin Table of Contents Protect your WordPress against common attacks Strengthen your login security  Monitor your admin area activity log React if you suspect your site might have been compromised. How to get Security Optimizer? The security of our clients’ websites has always been an extremely important part of our web hosting services. Some of the brightest technical minds in our team have been continuously dedicated to crafting unique security solutions and keep the safety level of our hosting infrastructure on an unmatched high level. We have been an industry…

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    Moving to PHP 7.4 and Discontinuing Some Old Versions

    Moving to PHP 7.4 and Discontinuing Some Old Versions A large part of our service involves keeping server-side and client-side software up to date, secure and fast. One of the key elements of our server stack that requires expert maintenance is the PHP programming language, which is a prerequisite for the functioning of the majority of the websites. PHP is an extremely popular and well-supported language and, as any software, its development involves the continuous release of new versions. New versions introduce new features and important performance and security enhancements. As a managed hosting service provider we keep track of…

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    Core Web Vitals: Complete Guide on What They Are and How to Improve Them

    Core Web Vitals: Complete Guide on What They Are and How to Improve Them Table of Contents What are Google’s existing page experience signals? Mobile-friendliness Safe browsing  HTTPS-security No Intrusive interstitials What are Core Web Vitals? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First Input Delay (FID) Google is replacing FID with INP as a Core Web Vitals metric Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) New Labels in Search Results How to measure and test Core Web Vitals? Field tools Lab Tools How to Improve Core Web Vitals Improving LCP and FID Improving CLS The upcoming Core Web Vitals update planned by Google to roll…

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    Geographically Distributed Backups for Enhanced Data Protection

    Geographically Distributed Backups for Enhanced Data Protection We are excited to announce that as of this month, we have deployed a system for geographically distributed backups, which minimizes the risk of data loss and аllows for fast data recovery even in case of a serious incident that may affect a whole data center.  Backups are stored in a different physical data center from the one hosting the live account As of this month, we started backing up accounts in a data center different from the one hosting the live account as follows:  Iowa, US servers are backed up on machines…

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    How Website Speed Affects Your SEO Rankings?

    How Website Speed Affects Your SEO Rankings? Table of Contents Website speed effect on organic searches after the Core Web Vitals update The optimal website loading speed Useful website speed test tools Website Speed Optimization Suggestions Lower Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) under 2.5s  Get First Input Delay (FID) under 100 milliseconds  Get Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) under 0.1  Even though website speed itself has not been an official ranking factor in Google’s SEO algorithm until now, experts have largely proclaimed its importance for good SEO. With the upcoming Core Web Vitals update planned by Google for May 2021, which adds…

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    Green Web Hosting And SiteGround’s Commitment To Sustainability

    Green Web Hosting And SiteGround’s Commitment To Sustainability Table of Contents What is green web hosting and how hosting providers can mitigate their environmental impact? Actions SiteGround is taking as a green web hosting provider: Reducing our carbon footprint by partnering with commited providers Optimizing resources by providing customers with top-notch technologies for better efficiency of your website applications Reducing the environmental impact of our workplace Encouraging a more conscious lifestyle among our team members Data centers play a big role in the Internet industry: they store, process and deliver all the websites’ information on their non-stop running servers. They…

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