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Security blindspots for selfhosted website
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this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
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Unless you require the dynamic features of Wordpress, you could have a look at some of the static site generators out there (such as Hugo). Having a static site would reduce the attack surface considerably. Also due to the shenanigans happening with Wordpress at the moment, I would be weary of using it.
About SSL, what others have already mentioned, SSL certs are available for free these days, thanks to letsencrypt.
There are also static export plugins for wordpress. One needs to get rid of comment boxes and such as they don't work then of course. But if all content is already in WordPress, serving just the static export is a low friction solution.
I’d almost go through the trouble of getting the content out of Wordpress. The nice thing about static site generators is you can completely switch out the framework, runtime, base Docker image and/or OS at any time.