Have you ever asked yourself about your WordPress website’s security? How to keep your WordPress websites away from the bad guys for good? Lots of bloggers and website administrators fail to recognize the importance of securing their site.
From a few months ago, my website has hacked with a trojan, their made a backdoor then change .htaccess file to changed almost information about my website on Google search result to spam information.
After all this, I came to WordPress plugins website and had a look to some security plugins. If they were working fine then it’s can make my blog more secure from these type of attacks.
In this article, I’m going to show you some tweaks and plugins that you can do to block the holes that may occur during or after WordPress installation.
Wordpress Security
Essential WordPress Plugins to Improve Security & Protection
WordPress is getting more and more popular each day, nobody can guarantee that your WordPress installation is 100% secure. Securing your WordPress blog is the most important thing that you must do after you have set it up on your server.
Before you read on, you need to know about Checklist to Improve WordPress Security
- Encrypt your login
- Stop brute force attack
- Use a strong password
- Protect your wp-admin folder
- Remove WordPress version info, WordPress Error-Messages
- Hide your plugins folder
- Change your login name
- Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and plugins
- Do a regular security scan
- Backup your WordPress database
- Define user privilege
There are many WordPress Plugins which help you in securing your Blogs, I will share some tips, tricks and resources which will surely help you to secure and lock down your WordPress site and to fortify it from unwarranted attacks.