Ways to Secure WordPress Blog
How to reduce the possiblity of haching your wordpress Blog
WordPress is an excellent piece of blog software and is considered relatively secure wordpress is updated frequently that has been used by millions and most blogs are not hacked. However, you can’t take taht for granted. There arecsome security measures that you have to care of by your self, other wise you are exposing your blog to become a target for hackers. Many webmasters often overlook security when it comes to their WordPress blogs.
If your website or blog get hacked, it is not fun. but it can be a nightmare. If have been through that experince, you know what i mean, and if you haven’t you are lucky that you are reading this articles.
I have been through, read and heard rough stories about sites being hacked. It is not fun at all. The only advantage of that is the experience you get out it. You will learn the importance of web security and how to secure your website or blog, but for some people, this experience it is very costly and time consuming.
Website or blog owners and webmasters should know about the important of using security measures to protect their blogs and websites from getting hacked.
Before it is too late, I suggest that you take the following steps to make your website or more secure
1- upgrade your blog or website as soon as a new version is announced. For WordPress it is announced in the dashboad of your blog. As soon as you log in you will see it. All you have to do is click update automaticlaay and you are done. but before doing that make sure (just in case) to backup you database or the whole website.
2- Have you heard about about a plugin called “Secure wordpress? downlaod it and insltall it.
3- If The user name for your blog is admin, cahnge it? go to dashboard, then users and change the user name to something.
4- Delete Any Unnecessary Plugins.
5- Keep all your plugins up to date.
6- Prevent Unauthorized Access to Your wp-admin Directory by adding the following lines to .htaccess file
<Limit GET POST PUT>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (replaces the x’s your IP address)
</Limit>
7- Hide Your Directory Structure by adding the following line to .htaccess fileOptions -indexes.
8- if your database name starts with wp, change it to another name by editing your wp-config.php file.
9- hide word press version.
10- Change the WordPress Database Table Prefix wp_. to a different name.
11-Create a long and complicated FTP username and password using a mixture of capital letters, small letters, numbers and punctuations to prevent easy access.
12- Change permissions of wp-config.php and .htaccess files into 444 to restrict access to your file in the event that your FTP password is hacked.
The above will not protect your site or blog 100% from hacking, but they are important changes to greatly reduce the chance of being hacked.
If you apply them, you blog today is more secured than yesterday.
Keep in mind that hackers are always one step ahead, so it is a good idea to take all possible precautions, and keep reading about blog and website security.
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