WordPress is ever-growing into a fully fledged Content Management System with some great functionality. According to the founder of WordPress, almost 12% of all websites on the internet are powered by WordPress.
Given that WordPress is so easy and intuitive to use, a number of users just starting out are not focusing on ensuring their WordPress installation is completely up to date and secure. Recently we’ve seen an increase in users having their WordPress hacked as a result of not upgrading to the latest version, or having out of date WordPress themes or plugins.
Upgrading is just the first step to running a secure WordPress website or blog. We’ve got three plugins that we’d like to recommend to you install on your blog to enhance your WordPress security.
1. WP-DB-Backup
WordPress Database Backup allows you to quickly and easily backup your WordPress database at will, or per schedule. We strongly advise you to install the plugin, take a backup today and set a schedule to back up your database at least once a week. If you update your blog regularly, then backing up the database once a day would be a really good idea.
2. Login Lockdown
This plugin helps protect your blog against malicious attempts to log in to your blog. If it detects someone trying to log in by guessing, it’ll ban their IP and stop them accessing the site for a set period of time.
3. WP Security Scan
WordPress Security Scan will take a look at your WordPress installation and make suggestions as to how you can further secure your WordPress
4. Admin Username and Password
This isn’t a plugin, but rather some good old RX Host advice. Please please please make sure your admin area username is not just “admin” or “administrator”. Use something unique, not your name, or something others can guess easily.
After that it’s usually a good idea to make sure your password is strong. Aim for at least 6 characters and include at least one capital letter, one lowercase letter, one numerical character, one special character (@’#!. etc)
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