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Your LRob web host's blog: news, tips, tutorials and security monitoring for the web, WordPress and hosting.
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Translate a WordPress site - In one go with TranslatePress
Translating a WordPress site can be a challenge, especially when machine translation of a page requires visiting it first. As a WordPress-specialized hosting provider and WordPress-specialized webmaster, I regularly work on multilingual sites that use machine translation. To do this, I generally use TranslatePress Developer Edition, along with the DeepL API, to handle the translation. The problem? Translating everything at once isn’t possible natively. So I had to find a solution. Discover this solution and save hours! Problem: Translating the entire site at once isn’t possible. With TranslatePress, translating the content of your… Read more >
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A critical flaw in W3 Total Cache
The team at WordFence (a WordPress security plugin) has reported a security vulnerability, CVE-2024-12365, with a CVSS severity score of 8.5/10. What is W3 Total Cache? W3 Total Cache is a robust, high-performance, and highly customizable caching plugin that we highly recommend. Used by over a million websites, it stands out for its reliability, extensive configuration options, and support for Redis caching. What is the risk posed by this vulnerability? The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that allows unauthorized access to data due to a lack of capability checks in the function… Read more >
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Business review 2024
Although I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2010, it was in September 2023 that I decided to devote myself fully to my web-based business, which focuses on hosting, maintenance, and specialized development exclusively for WordPress. So 2024 marks the first full year for the «LRob» you know today. So, how did it go? Spoiler: The results are very encouraging! New Features and Improvements in 2024 2024 brought many service improvements at LRob. Here are a few highlights: And much more. Web Hosting Business in 2024 The WordPress hosting business is taking off! You’ve been… Read more >
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Black Friday 2024 at LRob!
From November 29 to December 6, 2024—7 days to enjoy a lifetime discount of -50% on select hosting plans! -50% for life on select annual web hosting plans. Power your website faster than ever, with the maximum security and expert support you’ve always dreamed of. All with exemplary eco-responsibility! If you’re just discovering these incredible offers, find all the details on the dedicated page. -60% on website migrations. Entrust your migration to a professional hosting sysadmin for an exact copy of your content, with zero downtime. -45% on repairs and security updates for… Read more >
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Symfony: 8 new security vulnerabilities discovered - Analysis and recommendations
After a year without incident, Symfony disclosed eight vulnerabilities at once on its blog on November 6, 2024. They affect various versions of the Symfony framework. Here is a summary of these critical vulnerabilities, their potential impacts, and the solutions implemented by Symfony. This will help you understand the implications of these vulnerabilities so you can secure your applications. Introduction Even the most reputable frameworks, such as Symfony, are never completely immune to security vulnerabilities. Regardless of the application solution you choose, vigilance is essential. Security measures such as the ModSecurity application firewall and the automatic blocking of… Read more >
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Plesk and NGINX Reverse Proxy: Impact on performance
By default, Plesk uses NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. But is this default configuration optimal? What is the impact on performance? To answer these questions as a web host using Plesk, I ran load tests on a Hetzner VPS (8-core AMD Epyc) to measure the impact of enabling NGINX as a reverse proxy on overall performance. Background and Configuration As part of this benchmark, I compared the server’s performance with NGINX enabled and disabled. I also tested enabling the NGINX cache (and that makes all the difference!). The load tests… Read more >
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WordPress automatic updates: What are the risks and benefits for your website?
WordPress updates—whether manual or automatic—always raise questions, and sometimes even concerns, among webmasters. These updates are necessary for your site’s security and scalability, but they also carry risks. So, should you enable automatic WordPress updates? Let’s explore the issues. Manual Updates Regardless of how you update (manually or automatically), risks exist. Overall, whether the update is automatic or manual, you’ll sometimes encounter issues that need to be addressed, sooner or later. What are the risks of… Read more >
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WPMasterToolKit: the all-in-one plugin for WordPress
Discover WPMasterToolKit: the must-have plugin to make your life easier and streamline your WordPress sites. This French-made plugin, developed by the talented Ludwig YOU of Webdeclic, brings together a wide range of essential WordPress features, each of which you can enable with a single click. All in a single plugin: it simplifies management while speeding up your site! 🚀 A truly unique plugin: WPMasterToolKit is simple and flexible. With over 83 free features already available, this plugin lets you replace countless extensions with just one. What makes WPMasterToolKit unique, aside from the fact that it’s… Read more >
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Comparison of the 8 popular free caching plugins for WordPress: which one performs best?
Finding the best caching plugin isn't easy. You have to test it, measure its performance, and assess its long-term support… So which cache is the fastest? Which is the best caching plugin? Which ones are user-friendly and feature-rich, and which ones deliver high performance? Do you have to pay for a good caching plugin? Today, we’ll try to answer these questions using independent measurements that are as objective as possible. The test is a bit «meta» because it’s based on lrob.fr, a showcase/blog built with FSE (full site editing). A standard website… Read more >
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What's new in Nextcloud 30?
As it does every six months, Nextcloud has just released its latest major version. The official release notes are fairly brief, and no one really wants to read the full changelog… With a total of 2,363 changes across Nextcloud 30.0.0 and 30.0.1. Bug fixes, new features, improvements, dependency updates, and more. All of this is quite complex to analyze and summarize. Fortunately, ChatGPT can summarize and organize it all for us (over 2,400 lines of text and 172,879 characters). So to save you hours of your time, here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the key takeaways from the Nextcloud 30 changelogs… Read more >
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WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: ACF becomes Secure Custom Fields
The conflict between Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, and WP Engine continues to rock the WordPress community. The latest development in this matter involves a major plugin in the ecosystem: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). As of October 12, 2024, ACF has been completely replaced in the official WordPress.org repository by Secure Custom Fields (SCF), a fork created by the WordPress security team. The official announcement was made via a blog post on WordPress.org. Here’s what you need to know. A change officially driven by security In a post published on October 12, 2024, Matt Mullenweg… Read more >
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For the first time, an LRob IP has been blacklisted
Seeing a blacklisted IP address is part of life as a web host—a daily occurrence for the biggest or most permissive providers. Nevertheless, this is a first for LRob in its 10 years of existence! The more optimistic among you might say this is the price of fame… Naturally, as traffic increases, so does the risk of unauthorized activity on a site. The more critical among you will make a big fuss. In any case, at LRob, we’ve chosen transparency. So we’re answering all your questions. What happened, and what solutions are we implementing? Here are the answers. Read on… Read more >
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LRob Documentation: Migrating from MediaWiki to WordPress
Replacing a Wiki with WordPress: A Simpler Solution for Documentation At LRob, documentation management is essential, but until recently it was handled by MediaWiki. Although this tool is effective for collaborative projects, it becomes cumbersome and complicated to manage when you’re the only one writing and maintaining the documentation. It was while working on a WordPress site with numerous pages organized as categories that the idea struck me: why not use WordPress to manage the documentation, without any additional plugins? Why switch to WordPress? WordPress, which powers portail.lrob.fr/, offers… Read more >
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LRob now contributes to malicious IP reporting with AbuseIPDB
For a long time, I’ve been looking for a way to effectively utilize the hacking data blocked by my servers. And as a WordPress-specialized hosting provider, believe me when I say I thwart hundreds, if not thousands, of hacking attempts every day (and I regularly repair hacked WordPress sites that come from other hosting providers). Intrusion attempts are constant, but thanks to security systems like Fail2ban, attacks are automatically stopped before they can cause any damage. However, beyond simply protecting my systems and clients, I wanted to go a step further: to share this information and make the internet a safer place… Read more >
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Blacklists (RBL): SPFBL.net's outrageous practices
Not all blacklists are created equal. And SPFBL is an example of what not to do. Do not use this blacklist, and do not give in to its pressure. Read more >
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WordPress vs WP Engine conflict: analysis of the drama
The WordPress world, which powers more than 40 % of websites worldwide, is in turmoil. At the center of the conflict are two major players in the ecosystem: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, and WP Engine, one of the leading WordPress hosting companies. This clash, which has taken on legal dimensions, raises crucial questions about control of the WordPress brand, open source, and the governance of one of the web’s most influential projects. Here is a detailed analysis of this case and the issues at stake. Background: WordPress and WP… Read more >
