When you install a WordPress site, it is necessary that you take some extra efforts and have security measures that will protect not only for your data’s safety, but also for your visitors’. You worked hard to build your WordPress website and worked even harder to keep your visitors, if you got hacked without any security measures, you can lose everything you have worked hard for. And it will be very frustrating.
Protect your WordPress Website Installation with these 5 security practices. No technical skills needed.
1. Always, always, always update your WordPress and plugins to their latest versions.
Most of the common hacks to WordPress sites happen because of outdated WordPress and outdated plugins. WordPress has a very strong community and as soon as vulnerability is detected, it gets plugged. Updating your WordPress and Plugins is a very, very, very easy security practice. No need for technical skills to do this. No excuses for not updating!
2. Change your Admin Username.
When WordPress is installed, self-installers were asked for admin username and password. Many don’t bother changing their admin username from default “admin”, so what happens is that their sites are hacked easily. This is because most attackers will assume thata WordPress site’s username is “Admin”. So when you install your WordPress, instead of the “admin” username, be creative and use other unique username. If you already have a WordPress site, you can follow the instructions available online on how to change your WordPress username.
3. Create Strong Passwords.
How hard will it be to think of passwords that are hard to guess, hard to crack? Not at all, right? Just a word, any word, and start it with a capital letter and include some number characters - that easy. However, many still failed to make strong passwords resulting for about 8% of hacked WordPress websites. Avoid doing the same, reduce your risks.
4. Hide Your Author name from the archive.
By default WordPress displays your username in the URL of your author archive page. For example, if your username is woodyallenblogs, your author archive page would be something likehttp://yoursite.com/author/ woodyallenblogs. Very bad, as hackers will know your username, so hide your author name and reduce your risks.
5. Limit Login Attempts.
Hackers will try more than once to break into your website so it can be useful to limit the number of failed login attempts from a single IP address. Specify how many retries will be allowed, and how long an IP will be locked out for after too many failed login attempts.
These are just simple, easy, none-code security practices, but even doing one of these practices will make your website a little bit safer from potential hackers. Learn more about website security from the best web hosting in Australia, HostingOz.com.
