MANAGING YOUR WORDPRESS SECURITY TIPS: A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

✍ Scribed by KUMAR, MADHAN

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 63
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

WordPress security is a topic of huge importance for every website owner. Google blacklists around 10,000+ websites every day for malware and around 50,000 for phishing every week.

If you are serious about your website, then you need to pay attention to the WordPress security best practices. In this guide, we will share all the top WordPress security tips to help you protect your website against hackers and malware.

Complete WordPress security guide

While WordPress core software is very secure, and it’s audited regularly by hundreds of developers, there is a lot that can be done to keep your site secure.

At WPBeginner, we believe that security is not just about risk elimination. It’s also about risk reduction. As a website owner, there’s a lot that you can do to improve your WordPress security (even if you’re not tech savvy).

We have a number of actionable steps that you can take to protect your website against security vulnerabilities.

To make it easy, we have created a table of content to help you easily navigate through our ultimate WordPress security guide.

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Why and How to Protect Your
WordPress website
Number 1: An essential measure: The use of a "strong" password
Number 2: Blocking “brute force attacks”
Number 3: Never use the WordPress "admin" account.
Number 4: Limit the number of administrator accounts on your site and force
users to choose strong passwords.
Number 5: Changing the WordPress back office access URLs (wp-admin and
wp-login)
Number 6: Hide the WordPress version you are using
Number 7: Change database prefix
Number 8: Hide the true IP address of your site with CloudFlare
Number 9: Get your site to HTTPS with CloudFlare
Number 10: Disabling the XML-RPC interface
Number 11: Blocking navigation of your WordPress folders
Number 12: Disabling the File Editor
Number 13: Disabling the execution of PHP files in certain WordPress
directories
Number 14: The Role of Hosting Your WordPress website
Number 15: Moving your PhpMyAdmin
Number 16: Be careful with the themes and plugins you install
Number 17: Make backups
Chapter 2: How do you recognize a hacked
WordPress site?How to monitor your site?
How do you know if your site has been hacked?
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
ANNEXES

✦ Subjects

A STEP BY STEP GUIDE MANAGING YOUR WORDPRESS SECURITY TIPS