With every update, WordPress improves its security capabilities and fix the vulnerabilities. As you know that the default configuration is always risky. To secure a site you always need to customize your security settings, which means apply the best security practices for your blogging platform. If you are a new WordPress user, you might go through a steep learning curve before you become concern about security. We humans do not try to learn things unless you need it or love it -everybody thinks about user experience. However, nobody trusts a site that get hacked frequently. This post you will illustrate you how to apply the WordPress security settings and practices to make your site secured. You can easily implement the following instructions from your cPanel, Plesk or any other control panels.
- Always create an administrative account for blog management, and another editing account (with posting privilege only) to add post in your blog
- By default WordPress use the path www.yourwebiste.com/wp-admin.php to login to your blog. Since the attackers are aware of this you can rename this path by using a plug-in called stealth login. This is an excellent way to prevent automated attack against your blog. Though there are plugins in place to modify the login page, but it is better and more effective if you can change your login page with htaccess. Remember that Modification of htaccess file is not advisable for the beginners. [Read more…] about WordPress Security Best Practices
