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What are the Free Tools with WordPress Hosting?
Last Updated: September 23, 2025We have a suite of WordPress Tools which make the management of WordPress sites much easier. Rather than having to log in to the WordPress dashboard for each particular site, you can manage themes, plugins and more from within the WebHostsOnline control panel. The toolset is available for all sites hosted on our optimised WordPress platform. This guide...
How do I use the free WebHostsOnline Website Malware Scanner?Â
Last Updated: September 23, 2025Overview One of the major problems with malware is its persistence. This is why WebHostsOnline’s free Website Malware Scanner makes daily scans of all the sites within your hosting account. It uses a combination of commercial and in-house tools and provides reports detailing identified malicious content and its location within your site files. When malware is located on a...
Protecting your password from brute-force attacks
Last Updated: September 23, 2025StackProtect is a security tool from WebHostsOnline that protects website passwords. One of the most common and easy ways to compromise a website is to guess the password for login to its content management system (CMS). For example, /wp-admin for WordPress. Malware will use trial-and-error to try to guess your password. It might start by cycling through variants of...
