In the last two weeks I’ve had two friends who have gotten their [tag]wordpress[/tag] blogs hacked and frankly it started to scare the crap out of me.
I started doing some research and as it happens, there are a few small tips and tweaks that you can do to your blog to make it that little bit safer…
I’m not a techie, and so, to save repeating it here and getting something wrong, I’ll send you to a link instead:
http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/wordpress-security-tips-and-hacks.html
Some notes however…
I only found one technique there not to work which was the apache password protect plugin, which didn’t load right for me because I don’t have an apache server. Hopefully that’ll save you some time.
Unfortunately the threat of hacking is a reality for people doing business on the web and so it’s our job to do whatever we can to prevent it from happening.
I recommend everyone with a wp blog to complete these steps asap.
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Hello Andrew,
Thanx for sharing this tip with us.
One thing which was not mentioned on that site was to change the username from the default admin to something else.
So that if someone is try the dictionary method to try the password, they would then have to try to crack both the user and password.
Ani
Thanks for this Andrew. I’ve bookmarked the site for when I get my blog up and running. Very helpful.
Hi
Thanks for sharing. You opened my eyes concerning security.
Time to think again and keep learning.
J.