Top 10 Tips to Secure WordPress Blog from Hackers

You have developed a very good and SEO friendly content, getting handsome traffic, have a multiple social media sharing…But still you are forgetting one thing and it is to secure wordpress blog.

So why your WordPress blog security is essential…? If you know the answer then it is good if not then need not to worry and you have to keep on reading just to understand why you should secure WordPress blog and which tips will help you to do that.

Here are the top 10 tips to secure a WordPress blog, but before proceeding, let’s see first why we are taking WordPress blog security so seriously…?

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Why Secure WordPress Blog?

So why should we panic about our blog security? It is necessary to secure your blog, especially if you are new to blogging or do not have enough knowledge about WordPress, then you are insecure and some hacker may not only damage your content but also your blog on a permanent basis.

Let’s say some more words that nowadays unauthorized login attempts, stealing your content, putting some hidden file in your database, sending a lot of spam comments, and registering spam user registrations. It is hard to overcome these issues, even a professional blogger will take handsome steps to secure a WordPress blog. So, consider the top 10 tips just a checklist, just ensure whether your blog is fully secured or not…?

Top 10 Tips to secure WordPress Blog:

1-Choose Secure Web Hosting:

While choosing a web hosting company, it is not necessary to just think about the price or some bandwidth, but there are other factors too, like its fame, rankings, security, authentication, etc. So that the company can secure your blog from all aspects, especially from hackers, any virus, or any other unethical access. Also, it should be responsive in case of any issues faced by you.

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2-Choose Strong login Credentials:

While accessing your Dashboard, the main thing is your login page and its login details. Just ensure that you are not using “admin” as a login name and any common password that is easy to guess.

Always use a strong password that mixes up alphanumeric and special characters, so that your login page is safe from unethical access.

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You can also do the following things:

• Can hide your login area
• Can fix the computer from where you can only access your login
• Can fix it to a special IP address
• Can hide the error message displayed while entering the wrong Password.

3-Limit Login Attempts:

For example, someone has got your login name and then he tries again and again to put any relevant or famous password, but you can limit his login attempts and after a certain attempts he will be blocked from that page. You can even block him automatically for a specific period of time or maybe permanently.

You can use limit login attempts plugin to do so. This will secure your blog from Brute Force attacks (which are common these days).

4-Keep Your WordPress Plugins and other related things up to date:

Whenever you see a notification to update WordPress version then don’t hesitate to do so, just update it to the latest WordPress version. Also, keep an eye on your WordPress plugin and its compatibility, just keep them up to date and also delete any unused plugins or those that have not been updated for a long period of time.

Also while installing WordPress plugin, just check its popularity and the latest version (should be compatible with the latest WordPress version).

5-Avoid Free WordPress Themes:

Most of the bloggers at their first stage used free WordPress themes; you can use but they should be popular, not modified and developed by some trusted companies like WordPress.

Also, try to avoid child themes, because the owner may leave some loopholes and that may welcome hackers to peek into the security of your WordPress blog; instead, this gives some money and goes live some famous paid themes.

6-Keep a Regular Database Backup:

Although famous web hosting companies keep a database on a regular basis, in order to secure your WordPress blog, you have to do this on your side, because:

• Some Plugins may not be compatible with others one and in some cases, it may become difficult to deactivate or delete them.
• Hosting Server may crash; in that case, you may lose your data.
• There may be some unexpected error in your database, and you have to recover it.

7- Clean Your Site just as to clean your kitchen:

Make it a habit to keep an eye on your Data, for this, as mentioned above, just clean it from unused Plugins, revised and draft posts, Spam Comments, and deleted users, because this information may not necessarily for you, but can give a path to the hacker.

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8- Control Your Sensitive Information:

Some hidden files have no direct role for administrators or users but can be helpful for hackers, and these include .htaccess file, phpinfo.php,wp-config, and others, so you should change their paths and names. Also, try to hide your current version of WordPress because that may also be harmful for your WordPress blog security.

Also your host should also consider these things, and if you find any issue, then inform you asap.

9-Know your File Permission:

It often happens that hackers gain access to your files because you have set their permission by default or don’t know how to set the permission. Unlike how you install WordPress, it is necessary to keep your file permissions secure and prevent anyone from stealing and seeing inside folders and files.

10- Use Security Plugins:

Last but not the least is the use of security plugins. There are lot of wordpress security plugins available (both free and paid), the one that I am using is iTheme wordpress Plugin, it has all those things that are explained above, simply it is the solution of all our security issues.

So above are the major tips to secure a WordPress blog from hackers and unethical access. do comment if you know any other.