WordPress Security – 10 Tips to Keep Your Website Safe!

 WordPress Security – 10 Tips to Keep Your Website Safe!


1. Update WordPress regularly:


  • WordPress gets improved and its security is improved, when they release any update. By the use of the update, lots of bugs and vulnerabilities are fixed. If any particular malicious bug gets discovered, the WordPress team will work on the issue and release the new update to fix the malicious bugs. Make sure that WordPress has been updated regularly.


  • To update WordPress, check on the top of the page. There is an announcement for a new WordPress version available. Click on the update now button and update the WordPress.


2. Update your themes and plugins:


  • The update is not only for WordPress. The update is available for themes and plugins as well. This will help you avoid vulnerabilities, bugs and other security breaches. 


  • To update the plugins - Go to Plugins --> Installed Plugins, then select the plugins and update the plugins, if any update is available for the plugins.


  • To update the Themes - Go to Appearance --> Themes, then select the themes and update the themes, if any update is available for the themes.


3. Backup your site regularly


  • Backing up your site is about creating a copy of all the site's data and storing it on any G-drive or in local server or local PC storage. If the website crashes, the backup will help and it can be restored from the backup.


  • To backup your site, there are many plugins available in WordPress. Most of the hosting providers, providing the daily backup for WordPress and other files. If any website problem means, they will help to restore the website files and solve the issues.


4. Limit login attempts and change your password on regular basis


  • The hackers can easily succeed when your login form allows unlimited username and password attempts. The hackers eventually discover your login data, if you let them try an infinite number of times. It will be overcome when you limit the available attempts. You can use certain specialized plugins like Login Lockdown and Limit Login Attempts. Also, you can change the passwords on a regular basis to avoid those activities.


5. Install a firewall on your Computer:


  • First you will check the local PC firewall settings and ensure the firewall will be in active status. This way, every strange thing that tries to connect with you will be stopped and keep away the data and files if it’s suspicious.


  • Some tools which help to protect from hackers would be Norton Internet Security, Comodo, or Zone Alarm.


6. Install a firewall on your WordPress website:


  • Apart from installing a firewall on your computer, you can install security tools like Word fence Security and iThemes Security right on your WordPress website too. 


  • This type of firewall will protect your site from viruses, malware, hacker attacks, etc.


7. Rename your login URL:


  • By default, the login URL for admin dashboard will be (domain name/wp-admin or wp-login.php). The hackers can easily guess the url and they can easily access your website. It can be overcome when we change the admin and login URL. 


  • The Ithemes security plugin helps to change the URL as per the user wish. It is a simple method to secure our WordPress site.


8. Enable security scans


  • Security scans which can be specialized like some software/plugins that go through your whole website in search of anything suspicious. If any suspiciousness is found, it will be removed immediately. The above scanners work just like anti-viruses.


  • Some of the security scan plugins are CodeGuard, or Sucuri SiteCheck.


9. Use SSL for your WordPress website:


  • SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a great strategy through which you can encrypt your admin data and your website files. SSL makes the data transfer between the user browser and the server highly secure. 


  • If the WordPress site hosted in cPanel means the AutoSSL helps to protect the website with SSL. There are other SSL like AlphaSSL, WildcardSSL which helps to protect your website.


10. Protect your wp-config.php


  • The wp-config.php file is the core of your WordPress site. It holds the information about the database name, password, other crucial information and data about your whole WordPress installation. If something happens in wp-config.php files, the website will not run normally. One simple thing you can do is simply move the wp-config.php file to one step above your WordPress root directory. The hackers won’t be able to find it anymore. 


These are some of the steps to keep our WordPress website safe.

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