Hi kyle,

There are a ton of ways you can make sure your WordPress website stays safe from hackers and viruses. Some ideas include:

• Choosing trusted and secure web hosting companies like Siteground, Cloudways, and many others that suit your needs.
• Install SSL certificate. This is a must nowadays.
• Use secondary security measures like CDN. Cloudflare is very popular.
• Install a security plugin like WordFence or WP Cerber which blocks any suspicious or unknown traffic. It also provides other benefits such as keeping a list of logins, blacklisting IPs of people trying to hack your site, and notifying you of suspicious activity. Disable file editing on your core WordPress installation. Change your wp-admin URL.
• Always use a strong and unique password. Don’t use the same password for multiple accounts. Ditch the default “admin” username.
• Don’t use an easy-to-guess password such as “password.”
• Don’t install plugins from unknown sources especially nulled ones.
• Don’t download plugins from sites other than the official plugin repository.
• Don’t use old versions of WordPress.
• Don’t install plugins you don’t plan to use and uninstall plugins you no longer use.
• Keep your core WordPress, themes and plugins updated. You can hire WP website maintenance services for this task like WP Superhero. This will definitely save you so much time and give you peace of mind.

Yes. That can be a solution too. Finding out other services that conflict with Local on the port required. It should be fine if you don’t need the other program. Other way is to remove the conflicting program, install and run local for it to use the port first and install the other program again. Haven’t tried it for local yet but I think it should work. I have used it with both xampp and mamp before conflicting with Skype (and I needed Skype).