Hacking will be a priority for the website host. It may not affect the
actual site much but it depends what the hack does. The ones I refer to
install a plugin that acts as a mailer. Therefore the hacked site starts
mailing out thousands of junkmails unless its stopped. This has an
impact on the hosting server and they will close the site and maybe ban
you from hosting there again. If you're hosting your own WP site(s) you
must keep the install up to date.
As an aside I know a couple of people using RapidWeaver. It seems like a
good choice but I've not personally used it.
Graham
Tony Crooks <mailto:[email protected]>
10 November 2015 14:34
I'm not sure, Gilly, if you're making s general enquirer or have a
specific need. And if you have a need will only one person be
responsible for the web site during its lifetime?
The advantage of WordPress over Rapidweaver, which I've been using
since version 2, is that it is platform agnostic. If you host with
WordPress then you just need a web browser.
Hacking may be an issue but for a low activity web site it isn't
likely to be a major threat, is it?
I'm just about to build another web site and last year I'd have
automatically turned to Rapidweaver. Now I'll be using WordPress
because I will be handing over the admin of the site to another
person, as yet unamed, and I have no idea whether they will have a
Mac, Windows, Chrome OS, or Linux system. It's expected to be a low
activity site with about 25000 web page accesses a year so hacking
isn't my first priority.
So some context in relation to the query may help to point Gilly in
the best direction?
Regards,
Tony
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Graham Street <mailto:[email protected]>
10 November 2015 12:56
Yes, agreed if the site is hosted at wordpress.com
The failings for WP sites are that are server-hosted are that everyone
knows the admin login page. This therefore has to be protected from
attack. We have to keep all WP installs up to date with the latest
fixes and latest plugin levels. Customers don't do it as they don't
understand the issues involved if they don't. Today's site crept in
under the radar. All clients we host are supposed to tell us if they
plan to use WP so we can put in the protection measures and daily
monitoring to check all the plugins are up to date. This client
didn't, and also didn't update the standard WP '2015' theme - only
installed 2 months ago. It has a vulnerability that was exploited
today, resulting a new unauthorised plugin being installed that then
mailed out 3500 junkmails before it was stopped.
If you had HTML/CSS skills I'd always use Perch CMS. We have around 35
sites developed in it. If I had my way I'd ban WP from being installed
on all servers we host and just have it installed on wordpress.com.
Caught me on a bad day with THAT question (LOL).
Graham
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10 November 2015 12:44
I think Gilly’s thinking of a wordpress-hosted site, which is very
secure with a complex password.
In my experience any website can be hacked, usually only ones that
aren’t properly secured, i.e. out of date plugins, lax file
permissions, insecure or easy to guess passwords, other accounts on a
shared hosting platform being compromised, those sorts of things.
There have been vulnerabilities in every CMS out there, Wordpress has
a great back-end interface and makes it easy to control your content
but yes it’s only as good as the plugins/themes built for it or the
server it’s hosted on.
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Graham Street <mailto:[email protected]>
10 November 2015 12:34
In my opinion, its the worst as a CMS. But (IMO) the best if you want
your site hacked.
Today's voice of experience, with one of the WP sites we host hacked
again. We spend more time protecting servers from the WP sites being
hacked or continuously attacked, then we do anything else. I would
never develop a site in WP, but some people love it.
Depends what you want to do. There are loads of other better
alternatives and it depends on your HTML/CSS skill level.
Graham
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Gillian Snoxall <mailto:[email protected]>
10 November 2015 12:27
According to the internet, WordPress "is an online, open source
website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it's
probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content
management system (or CMS) in existence today.“
Is it still the best and /easiest /(most important!) web-creation tool
available, does anyone know?
Gilly
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