How to keep your WordPress site secure?

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Deleting unused themes and plugins
Keeping your site up to date will be easier if you remove any themes or plugins that are inactive. Every theme or plugin you have installed on your site is an additional source of potential incompatibility or insecurity, so it makes sense to only have the themes and plugins you are using installed.

So if you install a theme or plugin to test it out, and then deactivate it in favor of another, be sure to delete it as soon as possible.

To prevent hacks and other security breaches, it is essential to keep your WordPress site secure.

With Kinsta hosting, you can rest assured that security is taken very seriously. So much so that Kinsta offers a malware security pledge with every plan, and should anything go wrong, security specialists will fix belgium phone number data your site.

It's also worth taking steps to make your site safe for yourself. Always use strong passwords, keep your plugins and themes up to date, don't download free themes or plugins from sources other than the official plugin or theme directories, and make sure other user accounts on your site are managed properly too (more on which shortly).

If you’re not with Kinsta hosting, a security plugin will help you monitor security risks or breaches and identify what you need to do to fix them. Make sure to harden your WordPress site and make it less vulnerable to attacks.

How to improve the performance of your WordPress site?
If your site is secure, up-to-date, and backed up, you can rest easy knowing that the basic steps have been taken. But it's also worth working to improve your site's performance and page speed .