When it comes to the security of your ClassicPress website, there are two important things to understand.

The first is that the security industry has been lying about the security of WordPress for at least a decade and security journalists have helped to spread those lies. The security industry make false claims of security issues related to WordPress and often then they claim to offer the solution (possibly because it is easier to protect against security issues that don’t really exist). Unfortunately, and inexplicably, the WordPress team has helped to promote companies like Wordfence that have been involved in that. In reality, the core WordPress software has been quite secure, so ClassicPress starts with a good base, though they can fix the lesser security issues that WordPress has allowed to remain unfixed in the core software.

That brings us to the second thing to understand, which is that the security industry doesn’t actually do a good job when it comes to very real security issues in WordPress plugins. Something which security journalists and the WordPress team fail to warn people about (one of the recent heads of the core WordPress security team worked for a company that owns one of those security companies). To cover that up, the security industry even goes to the length of lying and claiming they provided protection when their customers were actually getting hacked.

This is where our service comes in since we actually provide a service that will help you avoid security issues with plugins when using ClassicPress. We do this by alerting to you vulnerabilities in plugins as they are discovered (many of them ones that we have caught as they are being introduced in to plugins), working with developers to make sure those are fixed, and allowing you to help to select plugins to be more thoroughly reviewed for security issues by us. With ClassicPress’ directory of plugins now taking shape, we have started monitoring the plugins available through that for serious security issues.

With our service for ClassicPress, you get everything we offer for WordPress websites for the same price, but we donate half of the revenue to ClassicPress to support its continued development.