How To Fix “Error Establishing Database Connection” in WordPress
So, your website is down, and is just showing this error message “Error Establishing a Database Connection” Don’t panic! In most cases, your website content isn’t gone or missing, it’s just a configuration issue that can usually be resolved quickly. Follow the steps...
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How To Make Your WordPress Website PCI-Compliant
PCI compliance rules were established by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) to help improve data security and reduce fraud. Although these guidelines are not technically mandatory, card-accepting businesses may be subject to fines, litigation or termination of their...
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How to Secure Your WordPress Website From Hackers
WordPress website security is a topic of huge importance. By not taking the security of your website seriously, you are leaving yourself vulnerable to hacks which can compromise the personal data of yourself and your website's user base. To learn how to secure your...
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How to Protect WordPress From Brute Force Attacks
With thousands of attacks reported every minute, brute force attacks are a very real threat to your website and can disrupt your business making you lose valuable data. Knowing how they occur is key to protecting yourself. There are two ways brute force attacks are...
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WordPress SEO: How to Grow Your Website Traffic
You’ve built the beautiful and functioning website you’ve always wanted. Great! Now it's time to focus your SEO efforts and begin building your brand exposure. This will attract visitors to your website who could, ideally, become customers. In this post we will...
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What is an SSL Certificate, and Why Does My WordPress Website Need One?
Over the last couple of years, you might have noticed people starting to talk more about SSL Certificates and HTTPS. Here at Hog the Web, one of our top priorities is website security, so we’ve been keeping a close eye on this conversation, but for those...
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The Secret Recipe to Make Any WordPress Website BOMB-PROOF
WordPress is not built "out-of-the-box" to run smoothly and securely. It takes a special blend of strategies to make a WordPress website reliable. Read on to find out what those strategies are. [spacer height="30px"]Here at Hog The Web, we have been building new...
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The (Potentially) Fatal Flaw of WordPress
WordPress has become one of the MOST used website platforms ever, in use by over 25% of the worlds websites. (1) But there is a potentially fatal flaw that plagues most of these websites if left unchecked. You may be wondering how we know this. Here at Hog The Web, we...
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Is Your WordPress Website Silently Sending Malicious Code to Your Customers?
Are you unintentionally helping cyber criminals distribute malicious code to your customers, friends and family through your website? Read on to find out, and how to prevent it. As scary as the thought may be, more and more WordPress websites are being found silently...
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