To Protect and Secure

At VaultPress, we recently improved our security scanning and notifications feature to alert you to site threats and vulnerabilities and allow you to repair them right away. Log in to your VaultPress dashboard and click on Security to check out the security scanning results for your site and take action to keep your site safe and sound. Note that this feature is in place for Premium and Enterprise Subscribers.

Here’s a sample of what you might see on logging in to your VaultPress dashboard. Threats are listed by category. Under Web Based Shell, the first category listed below, there’s a possible threat called PHP Shell 1 along with a description. You can choose to click on the blue Remove Threat button to remove this threat from your site:

Here’s a sample of what you’ll see if your site has the Tim Thumb vulnerability:

Clicking on the gray question mark reveals three actions you can take. You can:

• repair the threat,
• hide the notice, or
• ask a safe keeper for more information.

In this case, you’d definitely want to click on the Repair Threat button to ensure your site is protected from this vulnerability:

Because we want to be sure that we’re taking every precaution to keep your site safe, you may see some false positives listed under threats. If you have any questions or need guidance, please contact a safekeeper for help.

Learn more about how VaultPress can protect your content, theme, plugin, and site settings and customizations. Or you could make our day, and sign up to protect your site.

If the bad guys hack your site, you might need to do a full restore, and VaultPress customers know we’ve got their back there. But, what if you’ve accidentally modified your theme? What if an updated plugin starts to misbehave and you’d like to revert to the previous version? VaultPress now allows you to choose what you need to restore and nothing more, to help you get your site and your revenue stream back up and running as quickly as possible.

Let’s say you’ve accidentally messed up your theme. It’s so messed up, it would take a room full of themers a lifetime to make right. VaultPress backs up your themes and plugins once a day, so let’s look at how you can use a recent VaultPress backup to restore your theme.

Log in to your VaultPress dashboard and click on the Backups tab to see a list of your site’s most recent backups:

Perfect! The most recent backup was 52 minutes ago, before you accidentally invoked themepocalypse. To see your restore options, click on the gray arrow on the far right-hand side of the screen. You can see that you have the option to download a full site backup, do a full restore, or restore any combination of your database, themes, plugins, and uploads. To restore your theme, uncheck the boxes next to database, plugins, and uploads, and then click on the Restore this backup text:

Next, VaultPress will start to prepare your theme for restore. The time required for this step depends on the size of the files.

Once VaultPress is done preparing the files, you’ll see a confirmation message. Note that VaultPress needs your FTP information on file to be able to access your site and upload the files you’ve chosen to restore. If in this instance, we didn’t have your FTP information on file, you’d see an error message asking you to supply your FTP details to complete the restore process. Since we’re all set, you can click on the blue Restore Now button:

Once we’ve uploaded the backup theme files to your server, you’ll see this success message, confirming that you reversed themepocalypse. We’ll also send you an email confirmation once the files are restored.

Learn more about how VaultPress can protect your content, theme, plugin, and site settings and customizations. Contact us with questions, or you could make our day, and sign up to protect your site.