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Respond to a suspected PHP website compromise with evidence preservation, containment, verified patching, trustworthy recovery and credential revocation.
Remove untrusted PHP object deserialization, define a bounded JSON contract and plan legacy migration without preserving an unsafe parser fallback.
Review PHP session ownership, cookie policy, identifier rotation, expiry and CSRF validation with an original token helper and practical integration checks.
Validate PHP uploads, bound file size, generate server-owned names and plan private storage and authorized downloads. Includes a focused validation helper.
Use PDO value parameters, fixed sorting and tenant authorization together. Review an original query example and a practical SQL security test matrix.
Understand what Composer audit, platform checks and PHP runtime updates each prove, then connect dependency evidence to the artifact actually deployed.
Learn why php -v can differ from your website. Trace the web handler, verify serving workers and document the real PHP build without a public phpinfo dump.
Find Hostinger PHP settings, check the web runtime and ask for exact patch evidence without assuming that selecting a PHP branch proves your site is fixed.
Separate WordPress updates from PHP runtime fixes. Use Site Health, hosting confirmation and a practical regression checklist to verify the security update.
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Explore practical guides on performance and the web. Follow the collection in order, or jump straight to a problem you want to solve.
6 published guides · about 15 minutes
Start reading ↗Tools and downloads
Simple, editable checklists and worksheets. Free to download, with no account needed.
Record each plugin’s purpose, owner, cost and maintenance risk.
Download checklist ↓Map old URLs to their destination and track verification.
Download CSV ↓Compare content editing, accessibility, support and performance.
Download scorecard ↓Describe the expected result, actual result and steps to reproduce.
Download template ↓Quick snippets
Small examples to adapt to your project. Check the platform and test changes before using them on a live site.
# In Apache .htaccess only
Redirect 301 /old-guide /new-guideUse for a permanent move on Apache. Next.js redirects belong in next.config.mjs.
<img src="photo.webp" width="1600"
height="900" alt="A useful description">
img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }Real width and height reserve the correct space before the image loads.
<img src="photo.webp" width="800"
height="600" loading="lazy"
alt="Describe the useful details">Use for offscreen images. Load your main hero image eagerly.
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