A phrase that’s stopped meaning much on its own “AI-powered security” has been attached to enough products, in enough contexts, that hearing it attached to one more doesn’t tell you anything useful…
Most “free vs paid” articles are written backwards, starting from the product and working back to justify the upgrade. This one starts from your site instead — run the checklist, see where you land.
Most attacks on small WordPress sites aren’t a skilled attacker picking your site specifically. They’re a script trying common passwords against your login page thousands of times a day, fully automated, no human involved until it works.
WordPress itself has a pretty good track record It’s easy to assume “WordPress got hacked” means WordPress — the core software — had a flaw that let someone in. In practice, that’s…
WordPress runs roughly 4 in 10 websites on the internet — which is exactly why it’s the most targeted platform, and why “my site’s too small to matter” is the wrong way to think about risk.