Wordpress Security for Webmasters 2017: How to Stop Hackers Breaking into Your Website

In 2016, it was estimated that only 44% of web traffic was genuine human visitors to a site. The other 56% was made up of bots, hacking tools, scrapers, and spammers. With an estimated 30,000+ websites being hacked every day, website security has to be be a main concern for anyone running a website, no matter how small. Securi (a top internet security service) releases a quarterly report on hacking attempts. Their data from the third quarter of 2016 suggested that Wordpress made up 74% of all infected websites. Hacked sites can be used for a variety of purposes, such as redirecting your traffic, stealing customer details, deleting files, changing your login details to lock you out, sending spam emails to millions of people, SEO for the hackers site, and so on. And don