Have You Upgraded WordPress Today?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Website security is every bit as important as search engine optimization. After all, if your website is unsecure and gets hacked then you’ll likely have much bigger problems on your hands than low rankings. If your site is built using a CMS, or WordPress blogging software, then upgrading is very important. You could very well find your website hacked and taken off line.

Mashable sent out a stern warning before the weekend to everyone using WordPress to upgrade to 2.8.4 as soon as possible. That’s actually a good warning. I know someone who was on WordPress 2.7.1, which isn’t all that old of a version, and their site was hacked. Just as the blog post says, the hacker set up an invisible Admin account and kept inserting a malicious malware javascript in his theme files. He ended up having to delete all of his Subscriber accounts.

If you do find your WordPress hacked before you can upgrade to the latest version, be sure you clean out all of your files before you upgrade. That means deleting all your files and uploading new, fresh files. And delete your Subscriber accounts. The hackers are getting malicious. You’ve got to get serious about security.