How To Secure Your Wordpress Blog

It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"do not precede malware threat." There was more but I was too horrified to remember exactly what it said. I was worried on being destroyed plus humiliated that the people on the call had seen me vulnerable that I had spent hours.



The clean hacked wordpress site Codex has an outline of what permissions are acceptable. File and directory permissions can be changed through an FTP client or within the administrative page from the web host.

Safeguard your login credentials - Don't keep your login credentials where they might be found by a hacker. Store them offsite, as well as offline. Roboform is good for protecting them, also. Food for thought!

Maintain control of your online assets - Nothing is worse than having your livelihood in somebody else's hands. Why take chances with learn this here now something as important as your website?

Install the WordPress Firewall Plugin. This plugin investigates web requests with WordPress-specific heuristics that are easy to identify and prevent most obvious attacks.

But realize that online security is. Do go to the website not just be the type, take steps to begin today, protecting yourself. Do not let Joe the Hacker make your life miserable and turn all in creating come crashing down in a matter of moments that you've worked so hard.