WordPress Security
The Internet is great but unfortunately there are unscrupulous people who, for whatever reasons, will attack, hack, and cause havoc to your WordPress blog if you’re not taking steps to secure it.
The very first thing that you should always do is keep your WordPress blog upgraded to the latest version. Some people say don’t do this because plugins won’t work, etc. But my advice is this: plugins are a dime a dozen. It is far more important that you have the most recent tweaks to WordPress. A lot of time, WordPress upgrades are to fix security vulnerabilities.
Another thing you should do is install this Wordpress plugin: Secure WordPress. What this does is hide the WordPress version number in your blog’s header, installs a blank index.html file in your plugins directory so people can’t snoop, and various other tweaks to prevent hackers from getting in easily.
It goes without saying that your password is another part of the equation when it comes to security. Create a good password that’s at least a 6 in password strength, and don’t write it down anywhere-memorize it! It’s a good idea to change your passwords on a regular basis, as well.
A lot of people make money from their WordPress blogs. Offline you would have security cameras, excellent locks, etc, installed in your business location, wouldn’t you? So it makes sense that you need to take the same precautions online.
The great thing about security online is that a lot of the time you don’t need to spend very much money. There is enough freely-available information and lots and lots of good people who create open source software. A lot of the time the software is superb. Wouldn’t you say WordPress itself is superb? You bet!
So just make sure you are vigilant. Implement the above procedures quickly and then you can spend the rest of your time building your blog with quality content and making money from it without worrying about security issues.
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February 24th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Thanks for your post with basic tipps for users and the hint to my plugin.
February 24th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Hi Frank,
You're most welcome. Your plugin does the job well so we should be thanking you for making it available to the WordPress community.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Nice article. I started using a hosted blog called square something – I don't remember, but I hope it's secure cause I have no access to the server.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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