WordPress ecommerce websites have a different security profile from many other types of websites. An attack can interrupt transactions, affect customer data, damage trust, and directly interfere with revenue. That makes ecommerce an interesting group from our 2026 WordPress security survey to dive deeper into. Of the 319…
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Every Website Is Valuable to a Hacker: Kathy Zant on WordPress Security for Small Businesses
Click to accept marketing cookies and enable this content In this episode In this episode, we invited Kathy Zant, a longtime WordPress security educator who has worked with Wordfence and Solid Security, to talk about why every website, no matter how small, is a target worth protecting. We…
Corporate WordPress Security Benchmark 2026: Data from 141 Corporate/Brand Site Respondents
Corporate and brand websites are often the public face of a business. This means that, if something goes wrong, an organization’s reputation is on the line. In our 2026 WordPress Security Survey, we got 141 responses from people who work, at least partially, on corporate/brand websites. It’s important…
WordPress security monitoring: How to monitor your website for suspicious activity
A secure WordPress website is not just one that tries to stop hackers. You also need to be able to detect if someone breaks in, and what is happening on the website. Who is logging in? Are there repeated failed login attempts against an existing user? Was a…
WordPress Developer Security Benchmark 2026: What 91 Developers Report
Developers play a major role in WordPress security, and they’re often “close to the action” when an incident occurs. That makes their responses in our 2026 WordPress security survey particularly useful for understanding how people with hands-on technical experience view WordPress security. Their responses give us some interesting…
WordPress Membership Site Security: 2026 Benchmark Report
Membership sites have a security challenge that many simpler WordPress websites don’t. When users are part of the system, you’re often a whole lot more vulnerable than, say, a blog where people just go to read without logging in. Accounts, member data, gated content, and, in some cases, …
WordPress Security Statistics 2026: Melapress Survey Results
The Melapress WordPress Security Survey is back for 2026! We run this survey each year to get more clarity on how WordPress professionals approach security, including how they deal with incidents, how they protect their sites, and where the biggest gaps might lie. This year, we got more…
WordPress Plugin Supply Chain Attacks: Hunting for Backdoors with AI with Austin Ginder
Click to accept marketing cookies and enable this content In This Episode In this episode, we welcome Austin Ginder, developer and owner of Anchor Hosting, a WordPress hosting and management service. Austin manages around 3, 000 WordPress sites largely on his own, and that scale led him to uncover…
