MarieCarm

Ok, I give. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question!

Ok, thanks. Not looking forward to the SSL headaches, but I am responsible to our visitors when they when they type in their names, emails and addresses on our Contact 7 forms… those pages, at least, should be encrypted… I was just wondering, is this the only way to go? Our site is on shared hosting and StartSSL, which issued me a free certificate, needs our site on a dedicated server. What am I missing? I have a WordPress site, with Wordfence and Norton Anti-virus and even Captcha, plus Gmail/TLS for transmitting visitor info from our site to my email box. Yet I still need SSL? Sorry to ask my same question again…

What I really need to know is whether our visitors’ info is vulnerable on our end in any way other than how it is sent to my email which is by Gmail. Thanks!

Thank you so much, Matt! I’ll do that–disable live traffic. Thanks for the tip! So yes (to myself), I’ll keep Wordfence.

Thanks Brian,for your reply and the references. Yeah, I used to have Wordfence, which was great of course, but wondered if I needed all that for my site. Seemed to slow down my page loading or something, so I removed it. But I miss its messages about my needing plugin updates. That was really helpful.