Wordpress is an open source blogging software. This blogging platform is developed by more than thousands of developers from all over the world. But there are also evil of wordpress available. Although their number is very low, but you may be their next victim. So you should be careful and ensure security for your wordpress site.
How can I protect my wordpress site from hacking?
WordPress hackers use some software to hack wordpress site. But if you follow the following steps, you can protect tour wordpress site.
Keep updates of your wordpress site regularly
Update your wordpress site when new version of wordpress release. The wordpress updating system has becoming easier than previous. Now wordpress inform you when new version of wordpress release and you can automatically update by clicking on “update wordpress” button from wordpress dashboard. You do not need to download and upload the update version of wordpress.
Update Plugins:
WordPress also inform you about which plugins update is available, update those plugin. Some plugin may harm your site and some plugin may hack important information of your site. So before installing any plugin, read reviews and comments of that plugin.
Protect the admin profile :
Admin profile is create automatically, when you install wordoress . Hackers can easily hack wordpress site if they know the password of your site. SO after installing new wordpress site, create new user and give him admin permission. Then delete old admin. Then hackers need both username and password which will really hard and almost impossible to them.
Stop registering option :
If your wordpress site is not a blog for multiple members, stop registering option for the guest. You can do it easily. From the wordpress dashboard right sidebar, click on Settings–> General . You can see membership – anyone can register, unchecked the box.
Strong your password for wordpress admin:
Do not use name, birth date, phone number as password. Use multiple character , capital and small letters in the password. Here is an example of strong password ” #*QeW$deH98″
Backup your wordpress regularly :
Most of he hosting company says, they backup regularly of your site. But do not fulfill depend on them and backup your database regularly.
Delete version of wordpress:
WordPress evils research about the defect of wordpress and hack wordpress site depends on that defect . SO after updating wordpress, delete the version of wordpress. to do that, login to your wordpress dashboard. From the left sidebar, click on Apperance –> editor. Then select header.php
Search for the following code and delete the code.
<pre>[sourcecode language='php'] content="WordPress ” />[/sourcecode]</pre>
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