I believe the hacking they are talking about is the website, not the users computer. Wordpress has security holes which allows someone to take over your site. Now it comes down to what is to gain. What value does someone get from learning that great aunt Helen was born in 1899. Commercial sites are much more likely to get hit. It might be possible to grab people credit card information if the site sells something. Wordpress is primarily designed for blogging sites. Not "websites" such as we normally do. That doesn't mean you can't create a genealogy site but............................... On 07/24/2015 01:02 PM, Ralph Taylor via wrote: > Re: "I do not know php at all which is the language WordPress is written in. > I do not agree with Judy that wp is easily hacked." > > I spent a few months (trying) to learn PHP. Never attained sufficient > proficiency, but remember some basics. > > PHP is a server-side scripting language which works with MySQL databases; > PHP scripts run completely on the remote host computers. PHP takes input > from a user, runs it through a script and delivers output in the form of a > Web page &/or database update. > > That's in contrast to javascript, a client-side scripting language. With > javascript, the script is downloaded to the user, along with any data other > than user input. All processing takes place on the user's system. > > PHP is considered more secure because the scripts and server-stored data > aren't seen by the user system. Only the script results appear on the user > system. > > My most serious criticism is an impression that pages delivered by PHP lack > good styling. WordPress seems to have found a way to overcome most of that. > > As to being hacked, news stories tell us anything accessible by Internet can > be hacked. It's just a question of the hackers' motivation and how easy we > make it. > > The primary defense against hacking is a secure password, closely guarded. > Choose passwords that are hard to guess and NEVER, EVER publicly disclose > them. (For example, don't give out a password on this or any other mailing > list.) > > -rt_/) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._