The Nauti Nerds guide to Wordpress Maintenance Tips - using the right tools to stay online and safe from brute force attacks.

This episode of the Nauti Nerds marketing podcast features head nerd Tom explaining how to stay up-to-date with wordpress and wordpress plugins! WordPress has been around since 2003 as a blogging platform, but now it is used as a fully fledged Content Management System. In the current market however, Wordpress powers more than 27% of all live websites! That means that Wordpress is facing A LOT of attacks from cybercriminals who want to deface or hack Wordpress sites. And your business website could easily be one of them! A Wordpress site that is hacked or defaced can be very harmful to your brand, but also to your business. The truth is Wordpress hackers are becoming more and more sophisticated in their attacks, so even if you have Wordpress running the latest version of the software, you might still get hacked! So today Nauti Nerds will give you some Wordpress maintenance tips to keep your website protected from these threats, so that you can feel safe in the knowledge that everything is working at its best. Plugins for Wordpress are essential nowadays. They allow you to add new functionalities to your Wordpress site without being a programming genius! But there are thousands of plugins out there, which ones do you need? And if you get them, how can you be sure they'll keep working as you want them to? Tom Jauncey talks you through this very topic, and more, in this latest episode of "Nauti Nerds" from the Nautilus Marketing team. New to the podcast? You can catch all previous episodes here. Please do click whichever button your favourite app uses to keep you updated with new episodes, whether that's subscribe or follow! The Nauti Nerds is a Nautilus Marketing podcast.