WORDPRESS SECURITY GUIDE

It’s wise to col­lect good Word­Press secu­rity tips so you know how to pre­vent hack­ers from wreak­ing havoc with your blog.

The more pop­u­lar and suc­cess­ful you are online, the higher the chances that a trou­ble­maker or out-​​​​and-​​​​out crim­i­nal will try to take your blog down.

Two of the eas­i­est things you can do to keep hack­ers out are:

A) Change your Word­Press password often

AND

B) Change your Word­Press admin username often

How often is often? Chang­ing them once every 2–4 weeks is a good minimum.

It’s also impor­tant to change your pass­word and admin user­name if some­one helps you with your […]

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Peo­ple with Inter­net and web expe­ri­ence of all lev­els have worked to make sure that their web­sites, web ser­vice accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from com­puter hack­ers. How­ever, the hack­ers prac­tice an old base­ball say­ing which goes, “If you want to be a suc­cess you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”

The weak­ness that the hack­ers have found is the Word­Press Blog. Many may have never con­sid­ered a blog to be wor­thy of a hacker’s atten­tion, yet with the way that adver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing dol­lar poten­tial have soared, that’s what sets a hacker off on […]

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A lot of atten­tion is quite rightly focused on secur­ing your Word­Press instal­la­tion itself. But, how­ever secure your WP instal­la­tion is, it counts for noth­ing if you’re leav­ing other doors open. If a hacker is absolutely deter­mined to get into your site they’re prob­a­bly going to suc­ceed. But you can pro­tect your WP instal­la­tion from the mass bot hack­ers with a few com­mon sense pre­cau­tions. Here are some steps you can take: Firstly, make sure you keep your ver­sion of Word­Press up to date. In addi­tion to that, I’ve changed my login name from admin to some­thing else (long and […]

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any­one hav­ing a prob­lem sign­ing on? some­thing about their secu­rity certificate?

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You might think that installing a few Word­Press secu­rity plu­g­ins does the entire job of pro­tect­ing your site. Secu­rity plu­g­ins can help make your site safer (i.e. data­base back­ups, login lock­outs). Most peo­ple don’t real­ize that there’s much more involved in order to pro­tect a WordPress blog.

Word­Press is an appli­ca­tion pow­ered by PHP and MySQL. Many high-​​​​traffic web­sites use MySQL and PHP for large-​​​​volume data stor­age. If you are a Word­Press user, any­time you cre­ate a post or page, the infor­ma­tion gets stored on your data­base. Even though there are Word­Press plu­g­ins out there that can help backup […]

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This 90 Page Tuto­r­ial Walks You Step By Step Through The Sim­ple Process Of Pro­tect­ing Your Word­Press Blog From Hack­ers. Per­fict For New­bies Or Advanced Word­Press Users.. Pro­tect Your Word­Press Blog’s Prof­its With Blog Lock Down. Word­Press Secu­rity Sys­tem Blog Lock Down.

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Hack­ers often use brute force attacks to try to gain access to your Word­Press admin­is­tra­tor. They are try­ing thou­sands of com­bi­na­tions of your user­name and pass­word until they get the right one. Word­Press doesn’t allow you to choose the default admin user­name so they already know half of what they need. You can, how­ever, eas­ily add the extra secu­rity you need.

#1: Change the admin username

The first thing to do is change the default admin user­name. First login to your con­trol panel (often cPanel) and go to your data­base edi­tor (nor­mally php­MyAd­min), select your Word­Press data­base, browse the wp_​​users table […]

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Joomla, Word­Press and Dru­pal, which one has bet­ter secu­rity in terms of frame­work, cod­ing struc­ture for pre­vent easy being hacked?

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Every­one hates spam, espe­cially when it’s on your own web­site. Here are a few valu­able WP secu­rity plu­g­ins that help add an extra bar­rier to your Word­Press blog by reduc­ing the amount of unwanted spam.

WP-​​​​SpamFree

WP-​​​​SpamFree is a great WP secu­rity plu­gin to add to your arse­nal to help keep out auto­mated blog com­ment spam from bots, includ­ing track­back and ping­back spam. This plu­gin is very easy to install and can be acti­vated instantly. And best of all, it’s free!

It also allows you to see which spam has been blocked with the new “Blocked Com­ment Log­ging Mode.” In addition, […]

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Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tems or CMS makes it eas­ier to cre­ate and design Web sites. The beauty of using a CMS for your Web site is that even if you do not know how to write a sin­gle line of code or HTML, you can still cre­ate pro­fes­sional look­ing Web pages. With a CMS, you can also eas­ily change the design of your site with­out affect­ing the con­tent too much, mak­ing it far eas­ier to apply changes to the whole site.

Con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems also allow for col­lab­o­ra­tive Web site design and main­te­nance, giv­ing sev­eral users dif­fer­ent lev­els of access […]

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