#wordpress websitemaintenance

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.

WordPress security steps need to follow to secure the WordPress website

Keeping your WordPress website, theme and plugin updated: The WordPress web application has to keep update and maintain on a regular basis. They have an update for automatically from WP admin console and also manually. There are a different plugin and themes which support by third-party web developers and get updated. You can also update the theme and plugin from WP administrative area.

Change your admin user name: Change your default admin username to stop the brute force attack.

Disable your Appearance > file editing: After disable file editing no one can edit your theme files from admin console. For stop edition you can write following code in your “wp-config.php: file. // Disallow file edit define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true );

Strong passwords and user permission: Hacker can easily steal the password. You need to provide some strong password and characteristics must be unique. It must be for the WordPress area, FTP accounts, database, hosting accounts and also the personal email address.

Keep secure WordPress hosting: This is one type of good shared hosting providers. Please read reviews about secure WP hosting companies and select one of them for your website. It keeps with them some extra measures to protect websites from common threats. However, this hosting will provide a more secure platform to the websites.

Install a WordPress backup services or software: For any WordPress attack, backup is the main thing. The backup will help to quickly restore your data if you have lost it. There are some free and paid plugins. For the safer site, you must take backup regularly. Storing can be Amazon, Dropbox, or any private clouds. You can do the backup as per your convenient. Nowadays easily can be done through these plugin like vaultPress or Backupbuddy.

By installation of WordPress s securities plugins: you need to be install some WP security plugin that can keep your business or blog WP website safe and secure.

Protect Your WordPress Admin Area : You can protect your admin section for your IP address only. You can do this using .htacess or take help of apache or web developer.

Limit login attempts : You may use the Login LockDown plugin to limit the login attempts for admin user.

Change WordPress database prefix : The default database WordPress prefix is WP. You may change it your own prefix from the “wpconfig.php”. The code is as below $table_prefix = = ‘wp_r5466_”

Disable directory browsing and indexing : By the directory browsing hackers are able to view known vulnerabilities files on your hosting server. It is also help in other people about your files and images on your website. It is highly recommended for securities to stop indexing and browsing of directory. Again you can put .htacess file. code that is below to stop indexing. Options -Indexes

Logout automatically logged in user after some time : You can use the plugin Idea User logout for sign out of inactive user.

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