Ten Easy Steps to Hackproof Your WordPress Install (Blogging While Brown 2013)

10 STEPS TOHACK PROOFWORDPRESS

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1. DON’T INSTALL UNTRUSTED PLUGINS

www.codecanyon.netwww.woothemes.com


www.wordpress.org

1. 2. 3.

2. BE FAMILIAR WITH YOUR ADMIN/FTP/MYSQL


3. USE STRONG PASSWORDS

www.strongpasswordgenerator.com


4. BACKUP YOUR BLOG REGULARLY

1.

www.wpb2d.com

2.

cPanel at your Host

3.

www.vaultpress.com


5. INSTALL SECURITY PLUGINS


wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor-plus/

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

6. UPDATE WORDPRESS AND PLUGINS

1. Notification 2. Update

http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress

7. USE A REPUTABLE HOST


www.godaddy.com

www.bluehost.com

www.hostgator.com

www.mediatemple.net

8. CLEAN YOUR SITE FILES


http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Files

9. REMOVE THE ADMIN LOGIN

Change your username


http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/

10. STAY VIGILANT


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Ten Easy Steps to Hackproof Your WordPress Install (Blogging While Brown 2013)

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Ten Easy Steps to Hackproof Your WordPress Install (Blogging While Brown 2013)