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Continuous development is done on WordPress since its inception in\n2003 to improve the security features of the platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The WordPress Security\nTeam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wordpress security team is made up of 50 experts including\nlead developers and mainstream security researchers. Any vulnerabilities in the\nsystem is signaled to the security team via the WordPress HackerOne. Any issue\nis acknowledged upon receipt and the team works on the issue to be updated on\nthe next release of WordPress Software. Any immediate security release will be\npublished on the WordPress news site with the details of the update.\nAdministrators of the software will also be notified upon such an event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WordPress Security\nPolicy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A set of functions and APIs available in WordPress helps the\ndevelopers in avoiding any injection of unauthorized code. Administrators can\nalso restrict the file types which can be uploaded by using filters. Also,\nmajority of the security configuration operations are limited to a single\nauthorized administrator. Any themes or plugins is manually reviewed by the\nvolunteers before making them available on the repository. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Role of Hosting Provider\nin WordPress Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The configuration of the operating system and web server\nhosting quality is very important in WordPress site security. Since it can be\ninstalled on a multitude of platforms, one has to be vigilant while choosing\nthe server for hosting WordPress Applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pentagon &amp; WordPress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentame.com\/web-development-company-abu-dhabi\/\">web design company in UAE<\/a>, we develop majority of our CMS websites in WordPress platform. Our developers constantly follow the news and updates from WordPress. Along with great designs, we are heavily focused on the security of the websites we build. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We provide secure servers to host the website as well. Since\nhosting servers are an important part of the WordPress security, websites hosted\nin our servers ensures we are in full control of the site security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a dynamic content management system which is used to power millions of websites. 33% of internet uses WordPress, from hobby blogs to the big news sites online. It\u2019s usability and development community make it a strong choice for website development and is having a 60% market share of sites using CMS. 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