Hardening is the process of securing a website or system against known security weaknesses or potential issues to reduce the attack surface. The more functions or features a website has, the more potential points of entry an attacker has to leverage.

For example, a popular method for hardening WordPress installations is to disable the backend theme and plugin editor, which normally allows direct modification to the code in any theme or plugin file.

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