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Hide the Image Paths for Elementor, Divi, Thrive and Other Builders

Hide My WP Ghost works well with all the WordPress builders. Once you save the page, Hide My WP Ghost Plugin will know what to do to hide the on-page paths and change them with the new one.

Hide My WP Elementor
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Security Check Issues

Website Security Check Report

If WPPlugins founds any security issues, it means that your WordPress CMS is easily detectable, which leaves your site exposed to hackers.

If you don’t act NOW, it’s very likely that hacker bots will manage to break into your website sooner or later. If they do, they usually remove the website content entirely and steal your database information.

The loss and recovery costs can be … oh well … you do the math.

Below you will find more details and solutions for each security breach WPPlugins may uncover for your site.

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Hide My WP Codecanyon Alternative

Even if Hide My WP Ghost plugin’s name is similar with the Codecanyon plugin, the features and functionality are not.

Hide My WP Ghost is a plugin built for WordPress directory dedicated for both experts and non-experts.
We’ve tried to minimize interactions with the config files and came with original ideas who were probably copied by the Hide My WP Codecanyon over time.

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What Hide My WP Ghost Can’t Do

We work hard to make Hide My WP Ghost plugin for keeping your website safe using security through obscurity and at the same time to have a fast loading website with good SEO results in Google search engine.

Most hackers are using bots who access the vulnerable plugin paths and inject javascript or SQL to get valuable data from your website. We made sure that Hide My WP Ghost will protect you from these types of attacks.

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Grant and Revoke Permissions to Database Using phpMyAdmin

You can customize the database permission if the server allows this.

For WordPress website, you can leave only the following permissions enabled:

  • SELECT
  • INSERT
  • UPDATE
  • DELETE
  • ALTER (for updates)
  • CREATE TABLE
  • DROP TABLE
  • INDEX

Follow the pictures:

  1. Login to phpMyAdmin and select to see all the databases.

2. In the “Privileges” tab which list your users click the “Edit Privileges” of the user.

Then select the database: 

After that specific the privileges by checking them and then select your table as shown in the picture:

After you select your table, you can define the operations in detailed:

Hide My WP Ghost Compatibility Plugins List

Hide My WP Ghost is compatible with the most popular plugins. We are continuously working on this to further extend the list of plugins that Hide My WP Ghost is compatible with.

We’ve tested Hide My WP Ghost with over 1,000 plugins and themes so far, and we’ll keep at it, but if you DON’T see a plugin you may be using on our list here just yet, it doesn’t mean Hide My WP Ghost won’t work with it or cause issues.

Hide My WP Ghost doesn’t physically change any path or file. Rewrites happen when a browser accesses files and paths.

Software will still be able to access the images from wp-content, for example, so images will still be displayed inside the landing pages you build for the sales funnels.

The latest WordPress plugins we checked and made sure they work with Hide My WP Ghost:

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Hide My WP Ghost Compatible With WP Engine

If you are using WP Engine to host your WordPress website and you want to increase its security by using Hide My WP Ghost, follow the steps below to set up Ghost mode and add the necessary records in WP Engine.

Step 1: Install and activate Hide My WP Ghost on your WordPress website.

Step 2: Open Hide My WP Ghost settings and go to the Safe Mode or Ghost Mode tab.

Step 3: Enable Safe Mode or Ghost Mode by clicking the corespondent button.

Step 4: Configure the paths to your preferences. You can choose which URLs to hide, which ones to redirect, and which ones to replace with custom paths.

Step 5: Save the changes, check the rules you receive in the notification bar and go to the WP Engine User Portal.

Step 6: Select the environment you want to configure a redirect for.

Step 7: If you want to redirect a specific domain, make sure it is also mapped to the same environment.

Step 8: Click on Redirect Rules.

Step 9: To add a new redirect rule, click on the New Redirect Rule button.

Step 10: Configure your redirect by adding the old URL and the new destination URL. Also choose the type of redirect you want to use accordingly with the rules from Hide My WP Ghost.

Step 11: Click on Save or Add another to create the redirect rule.

By following these steps, you should be able to set up Hide My WP Ghost and add the necessary redirect rules in WP Engine to increase the security of your WordPress website

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Hide My WP Ghost Compatible With Inmotion WordPress Hosting

Inmotion Hosting is a good hosting solution for your business and if you start an hosting plan with them you will love their services.

Inmotion is using a Cache Manager base on Nginx and it will automatically cache all static files like: CSS, Javascript and Image files.

To make Hide My WP Ghost work and redirect all the static files you need to follow these  steps:

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Hide WordPress Website From Builtwith

Even if WordPress is one of the safest content management system online, you cannot be completely sure that no one can hack your website if you are using WordPress. There are so many insecure plugins and themes that can be tracked by hackers around the world.

How To Hide WordPress From BuiltWith

Hide My WP Ghost is designed to ensure perfect protection against hackers around the world. Note that BuiltWith is a popular platform that provides hackers information about on which platform a particular website is running so that they can further plan their destructive activities.

Experts reveal that Hide My WP Ghost hides the website from https://builtwith.com if the users are setting the Ghost mode to Hide My WP Ghost plugin.

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The Frontend Theme Style Not Loading while in Ghost Mode

If you followed all the Hide My WP Ghost indications, probably it’s a .htaccess file issue.

Please check the .htaccess file and look for

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
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Hide WordPress Website From Wappalyzer

WordPress is one of the safest content management system online. Developers at this company keep on updating the security parameters to address potential vulnerabilities.

However; we cannot be completely sure that no one can track your data on this platform. There are so many insecure plugins and themes that can be tracked by hackers around the world.

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Setup Hide My WP Ghost on Nginx Server

No nginx.conf file access?

If you have a sharing hosting service, you can follow this tutorial and use only the features that don’t need rewrite rules in nginx.conf file:
https://hidemywpghost.com/how-to-use-hide-my-wp-ghost-with-nginx-hosting-without-editing-config-files/

Please follow this tutorial step by step to set up the Hide My WP Ghost for Nginx server:

  1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Hide My WP > Change Paths
  2. Select the Safe Mode or Ghost Mode,  scroll down and customize the paths as you like
  1. Click the Save button to save the changes.
  2. You will see a message to include the configuration file into nginx.conf file.

If your server is a Linux server, the main path to the nginx.conf file is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf (or /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf if you’re using Arch Linux). If the server is a Windows server your nginx.conf file will be located at C:/nginx/conf/nginx.conf)

If your nginx doesn’t have sites-enabled option activated (check for sites-enabled subdirectory in the same directory with nginx.conf file), you will find the server configuration in nginx.conf file like in the below example:

server {
        server_name [your domain name];
        root [path to the website root];
        index index.php;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

}
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Hide All The WordPress Common Files with Hide My WP Ghost

What Hide My WordPress Ghost can do:

You can set the Ghost mode to hide all the main WordPress paths:

  • wp-content
  • wp-includes
  • wp-content/uploads
  • wp-content/plugins
  • wp-content/themes
  • wp-comments-post.php
  • author
  • wp-json
  • wp-login.php, wp-login, login
  • wp-admin
  • and all the plugins and themes names
  • show forbidden error for all the old paths and let only the new paths
  • custom URLs using the URL Mapping feature
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Set Hide My WP Ghost For Bitnami Servers

#1 Bitnami Setup for Apache Servers

Step1: Install, Setup Hide My WP Ghost Plugin and click the Save button with the new paths.

Step2: Copy the rewrite rules from Hide My WP Ghost into Bitnamy config file

Bitnami uses “htaccess.conf” files by default instead of “.htaccess” files for security and performance reasons. You can find more info at https://docs.bitnami.com/general/apps/redmine/administration/use-htaccess/

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