Ghost Security Tips for WordPress

OK, so if you have gone beyond the very basics of WordPress and installed more than a site or two, you kinda know the importance of keeping things up to date. That is what updates are for is to fix things like security flaws and holes in the system. Pretty simple right?

Well, yes and no.

There are a couple of problems with that scenario. For starters, WordPress started as a blogging platform. And there are literally MILLIONS of inactive blogs out there that are lying around un updated. This is the joy and curse of open source. The software is FREE so many folks will start to use it. The problem is that they leave their sites around like so much space junk when they are done. Or when they give up. Or when they switch jobs. Or whatever.

So while we want to get beyond the basics of “Keep your WP up to date…” we can only do that if you in fact DO keep ALL of your WP installs up to date.

Nuff said.