WordPress Security

WordPress staging site can be viewed as an independent clone of your original website.  You can do modification to your staging site and then load changes to your original website later. A staging site is the exact replica of your live site. It helps you to make your live site risk free.

What is the need of staging?

o   To examine your site- This is the most important feature of staging sites. There are lots of tasks to be performed while creating a website.  Several plugins are used. You also have to specify theme for your website. WP staging allows you to make all the changes you need, in a clone site and test how it will look before publishing them.

o   Make changes- You can edit, update and even manipulate it as per your need. You can also test whether your site is functioning properly or not.

o   Preview your site- You need to first preview your website before publishing it. This is the reason why you need WordPress staging. Without staging, you might have a risk of crashing the live website.

·      How to push staging site to your original production site?

When you have made all the desired changes on the staging site and now you want to push those changes to your live site, you can do this very easily. Just click on push to production (available in the staging drop-down menu) and your staging site will go live. You need to test the staging site vigilantly. If the testing is not done carefully, your production site may not work properly after updating.

·      Troubleshooting the staging environment

After installing the staging plugin, there are a sequence of settings that you should configure before proceeding:-

o   Make sure your domain is correct: View URL of your admin screen. If it is the sub-domain of your website, the new configuration will be displayed.

o   Ensure that the media is successfully placed: Your media should be in a proper place. If it is not placed properly, you have to check whether the ‘uploads’ directory is in the correct place or not.

o   Sitemaps option should be disabled: You have to disable xml sitemaps, so that the search engine doesn’t index your staging site.

o   Restricted site access: You need to install ‘Restricted site Access’ plugin and update it. By doing this, you can restrict users from visiting your staging site.

o   Make sure to update permalinks: ‘Permalink’ is the permanent web address by which your contents are linked. It should never be changed. You have to keep the ‘permalinks’ updated, otherwise errors would generate.  You can do this by Settings-> Permalinks.

CONCLUSION

Hosting is a service which enables your website to get viewed and has its own presence on the internet, for the existence of your website two things are important one is the domain name & other is the host. This is a place owned by you, where anyone can find your website and blogs.

You can perform WordPress hosting in two ways either by using wordpress.com or wordpress.org:

wordpress.com- Your site will be hosted by WordPress.  You will then get a sub-domain website.  You can host your website under wordpress.com without any cost. But, you would come across a drawback, that you will not get access to all the features of WordPress. Ads may be displayed frequently on your blog.

wordpress.org. - First, you have to choose your web hosting service like BlueHost, DreamHost or SiteGround and register your domain name with its server. You can modify your blog as per your needs.

What are the advantages of WP hosting?

o   Resource utilization becomes more efficient.

o   The configuration of server are more precise.

o   The server remains secured.

o   WordPress takes the responsibility of all the issues faced by you and also try to solve it.

o   The installation process is very easy.

o   Easily available at an affordable price.

What all benefits you get by Managed WP hosting?

There are various advantages of managed WP hosting. These are:

Speed: WordPress has a phenomenal speed. Pages are loaded within seconds.

Security: Managed WP hosting is highly secure because of the secure protocols that are used in it.

Server:  The WP hosting team will make sure that you are using the latest server. They will ensure that your site is working efficiently.

Support: WordPress experts shall ensure that you are not facing any kind of problem.

Resource optimization: When your site is sharing few resources with other sites, resource utilization becomes better.

What are the points to be considered while choosing a hosting plan?

o   Monthly budget: Keep in mind what is the monthly budget that you are planning on your site.

o   Technical support & security:  Make sure that your hosting plan provides you with great technical support. It should have the feature of regular malware scans, daily backups, and easy restoration.

o   Migration: It should easily relocate your data and files, even the entire website at any point you wish.

o   Threat detection: It should detect the threats well and take necessary steps for avoiding the threat so that your data remains safe.

o   Daily traffic:  Observe the daily traffic on your site. You will get an idea what is the status of your website.

o   Expected traffic: How much traffic do you expect?  Work accordingly. Try updating your products and services and also the ad that you publish

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS ( Content Management System ) that is used for blogging There is a wide variety of themes and plugins that are provided by WordPress. These themes make the whole designing process so simple that anyone can do.

Wrapping Words

We all need a software plugin to take care of all our backup data efficiently, keep them safe, helps us with easy installation and restoration. Sometimes installing new plugins, themes or updating them creates conflict which results in website crashing. And there is also a huge chance of getting hacked or attacked. That is why you cannot just go for any backup plugin, therefore finding a good app backup & restore plugin is important.

 Although your hosting company provides you backup and restore services, but depending on them is not advisable as they provide you limited features and they may not take backup of the entire site. A good backup plugin provides you some great features which makes your data secure and safe, allowing you to recover from data loses or crashing of the whole website. These features are data backup, automatic and manual backup services, management of data, data security, maintenance and threat protection.

Having the option of both manual and automatic backup allows you to customize your backup related task on a daily & weekly basis. With the increasing complaints of cyber crimes, some plugins offers the feature of data security and threat protection which helps in preventing your website from indecent software and also helps you to ensure the safety of your data during server crashes, storage issues or from incompatibles themes and plugins.

 Your backup data is stored in an encrypted format so that no one could steal your content or tamper them in any way. Since it is easy to hack a backup file with no protection. They also store your data in multiple destinations, letting you have multiple copies of your backed up data stored in different locations. In this way you can ensure that your data is secured.

Now comes the restoration feature, which is as important as that of creating backups. Restoration can be complete restore or you can restore your files in fragments, by restoring some lost and damaged files or modules of code. The method of restoring in fragments is fast and do not affect your website’s performance, as you are changing only the damaged files instead of complete restoration.

Some points to note, a backup plugin should be capable enough to give you overall backup instead of creating backups of only databases and wp configuration files. Your backup files must include every file which you have ever used in your website i.e. images, texts and videos along with your DB. It should also have an easy and friendly interface. So that you don’t have to search for anything, instead your files and data should be easily managed from single page.

Conclusion:

File Transfer Protocol is a protocol which lets you secure transfer of the files or media from one place to another. With this you can upload and download large files to your server, change the permission of files or directories .Also you will be using FTP while transferring your website or blog to another location. 

Your web host always provides you FTP service, but you need to install a FTP client on your server. To create your FTP account you need to go to your cpanel and under files tab you will find FTP accounts where you can create a FTP account. The account’s login credentials are same as that of your hosting account.

WordPress FTP can be used for,

Uploading and downloading files from your local system or internet to your server.

Deleting files and plugin from your site, if you found that your downloaded files or any plugin is not compatible then you can delete them using FTP.

You can change the permission of files and directory in a very easy and efficient way.

It can be used for migrating your entire website or a particular blog.

For changing permission of a particular file, right click on it and select permission. A window will appear with three options ( read, write and execute) for three roles (owner, groups and other). The abbreviation used are r, w, x and the numeric values assigned to them is 2,4,1 for read, write and execute respectively, with which you can make different sets of permissions likes,

owner(rwx), group(rwx), and public(rw-) = 776

owner(rwx), group(rw-), and public(r--) = 762

owner(rwx), group(r--), and public(r--) = 722

owner(rwx), group(r--), and public(---) = 720 and so on

For uploading files from your system, you can either browse the location or just drag and drop it. Your hosting server will determine the maximum size of file which can be uploaded through the casual medium but with FTP you can upload large files.

You can also create manual backups with FTP, all you have to do is select everything and download it to your local system. But this method is only applicable if you have a small site with less data. Since directly copying everything from your website to your computer might eat up all your space.

FTP also provides you a secure session with which you can transfer your files with SSL certificates. Having a SSL certified sessions for transferring files and media, creates a high security wall and prevent any kind of snooping and hacking activities.

Conclusion:

WordPress security has become one of the topmost priority in today's world. WordPress is one of the popular platforms which comes with so many bangs on features, interesting themes, and powerful plugins. WordPress now is not only limited to blogging, it has become the best place to create websites too. But today it has become the most targeted and the sensitive platform too. With so many brutal hackers around your WordPress definitely need a security that is hard to break.   It is your sole responsibility to keep your hard work safe and secured. No matter whether you are a beginner or an experienced person, you should make sure that your WordPress site has the best security that is unbreakable. You have to save your WordPress site from malicious viruses, brutal hackers, and harmful codes. It is very important to be aware and to keep your WordPress site safe and secured.

Below mentioned are the 3 things that you can do to make your WordPress site more secure and safe.

1.  Shielded entry to your WordPress site

In WordPress every single person’s default login name is admin.  Hackers know this thing very well and that’s where they can easily enter to your site and destroy all your data. Take the following measures on a prior basis and keep the hackers at bay at the very first step only.

Avoid using admin as the username. Select the difficult username which is hard to guess by anyone.

You should always safeguard your WordPress site by keeping strong and unique passwords. Your passwords should be lengthy and should contain both uppercase and lowercase. Your password should be rare and should not include your personal details. Also, you need to keep changing your passwords from time to time.      

Apply the two factor authentication process. It will help to restrict the entry of evil hackers, unknown sources. This step will give you the double layer of security.

Also, restrict the number of failed login attempts. In general, WordPress does not restrict the number  of times you can try logging in when you are not having the password and required details.

2. Make use of SSL for Data Encryption

Upgrading your WordPress site to HTTPS creates a more experienced and professional image and it leaves a positive impact on every visitors who visit your page. A sense of trust and confidence builds when your site do have a secure connection. Also, having SSL certificate ensures secure transfer of data between the browser and server. It helps to keep the hackers at par as they will be unable to break this secure connection.

3. Update Your WordPress site on a regular basis

The major thing that you need to follow to keep your WordPress site safe and secure is to update it on a daily basis.  WordPress from time to time releases new updates. Although the WordPress itself take care of trivial changes but you need to be alert about the major updates that are released by WordPress. You have to manually update it. Also, you need to take the backup of your whole WordPress site including database, content, plugins, themes every single thing. When you have a backup of the site you will be able to restore with ease and you will be safe if in case any data loss situation occurs.

Conclusion 

WordPress backup plugins are the tools which are used to backup your WordPress site as well as perform other important functions like keeping your WordPress secure, migrating your WordPress site, staging, restoration and much more. But as we all are aware of the fact that there are tons of backup plugins available in the market. You need to be very careful and wise while selecting the WP backup plugin. An ideal WP backup plugins will have the following key features and you need to be alert and see whether the following features are present in your selected plugin or not. If not, then it's time for you to look for other plugins.

 Crucial Features that constitutes an ideal WordPress backup plugin-

Easy To use

A perfect backup plugin should be easy to use and should have a simple user interface. You don't have to be a techie or an expert while handling with plugins. The particular backup plugin must have a simple user interface. You must be able to navigate easily and all your work must be able to complete with a single tap.

2. Whole Site Backup

The particular WP backup plugin should be able to take the backup of your entire WordPress site including database, WP core files, themes, plugins, content, contacts, your settings into a particular storage. Many efficient plugins are able to store different versions of your WordPress site and posts. Your selected backup plugin must be capable of storing your data in different locations such as Dropbox, FTP server, cloud, Amazon S3 etc.

3. Smooth Recovery

On one hand where backing up your WordPress site is important, the restoration process is even more crucial. Your backup plugin should be able to take out the restoration process smoothly. You should not face any difficulty in bouncing back to normal after any kind of data loss. Also, an ideal WP backup plugin should not take much time in the restoration process. Fast recovery is important.

4. Braced Security

A paradigmatic WP backup plugin should provide you the unbeatable security measures for your WordPress site. It should also provide you the options of blocking the PHP executions, restriction on  number of failed login attempts and locking up the database. WordPress has become the most popular platform and the most sensitive platform too. It has become the major target of the brutal hackers. That is why it is very important to ensure that your WordPress site has the best security that no one can breach.

5. Zero downtime Migration

WordPress Migration is the process of switching your WordPress site from one host to another without influencing its performance. A perfect WordPress backup plugin is also able to take out the process of migrating your WP site on your behalf and that too in zero downtime. Also the plugin must have the capability of simplifying the migration process by taking the automatic backups of the data during the process and ensuring that your website data is safe and secure.

6. Simple and easy Staging

A staging site is the mimic of your live site where you can test changes without being public. The staging site allows you to test new updates, plugins, and themes, do experiments without affecting the functioning of your live site. The best backup plugin will provide you an easy way to set up your staging site with one single click. It should be capable to conduct the Staging process independently on your site, server or web host and it should be able to work on any host. Also, the backup plugin should send the email alerts at the completion of the staging process.

Conclusion

When you have a steady business going on it is very important for you to create backups now and then. But regular backups are not enough when you caught up in some trouble. Hence selecting a best WordPress backup plugin is important.

What if the one you are using now is not compatible or just isn’t working after you updated it. Or you are attacked by some hackers and your data or content is begin misused by the hackers. Because the backup plugin you are using was not providing any security to the backed up files. All this because you failed to judge the best one.

Backup plugins are easy to use and install. They will provide you backup automatically if you want them to, and give security to all your backup data. Some people still rely on their hosting company for creating backups and do not want to use backup plugins

So let’s see what all features a best backup plugin may have. A good backup plugin will involve,

·  They offers you to saves all your data daily including all your staging sites automatically.

·   They provide you the option of incremental backup, which is fast and reliable and does not need much space on your disk.

·   Except all this you can still create manual backups whenever you see it fit.

·   Stores your backup multiple times in multiple places, just to make sure that even if your data is lost from one place you still have your backup safe.

·   Let’s you restore all your data, if you ever happen to lose your data there is an option of auto restore but you can still do it manually.

·   It will make many copies of your data, so that if you deleted one by mistake it won’t create a problem for you. To make your data more secure, the different copies of backup is stored in different location.

·   Auto restoring is a new feature which takes automatic data backup during server failure or crashes and restores the whole project with a single click.

·   They also provide you maintenance, quick data processing and task processing everything in a same place.

·   Threat protection is always been a severe problem with WP sites, if a backup plugin offer you this feature make sure to opt for it.

The backup plugin which can provide you all this feature in a single package will be the best. There are many backup plugins which are available in the market, they may and may not provide you the services which they offer. Getting yourself a backup plugin is an important job and should be done with utmost care.

Got a new domain name? Or Are you moving to a new server? Whatever your reasons maybe, WordPress migration is not a big thing if you follow the procedure stepwise.

If you are going to migrate your server by keeping your URL as it is. You should start with making backups and simply copy your entire data to new server location. Make sure you disable every preconfigured permalinks and enable it when you are done migrating.

And if you are going to migrate your URL from .com to .net or some other domain extension. Start by creating a backup of your entire database with all its files and folders, make two such copies and keep them somewhere safe. After that login to your host and create a new WordPress DB on your new host with your website’s name. Then make a new DB user account and provide it with all the privileges over your site’s database.

Next you need to edit the configuration file named as wp-config.php to change the name of the database, its user name and its password. Now import your database through phpMyAdmin on to your new host. After importing the entire database onto the host next you will upload your WordPress files via FTP. Browse to the location where you saved the backup, select the files and start uploading.

One issue you might encounter if you ever mention a direct link in any of your blogs which points to your previous URL or any image which on clicking brings you to a page which is on the previous server. These links and images will not work once you have migrated to another host. So to avoid this search every occurrence of your old URL and replace it with the new URL. With this you have moved your WordPress website to another host with a new URL.

Migrating multisite is bit complicated though, since multisite holds multiple reference of the folder location and the server. Simply copy pasting will not help you with multisite. You are required to make manual updates at .htaccess and the configuration files.

Even though you have completed moving your entire site to a new host but your domain is pointing to your previous host. To avoid this you need to change your name server in order to prevent

Some points to remember are that,

·  One should always make backups before starting migration.

·  When you are uploading your database and WordPress files make sure to replace your previous URL with the new one.

·  When you are migrating within the domain, you just have to make change to the index file.

·  DNS change might take up to 2 days to reflect your changes and updates, so try not to do anything to your site during this time.

Conclusion:

WordPress Staging is a platform where you can create multiple websites from your domain without disturbing your live site. They are basically subdomains or subdirectories which reflects as a webpage. Generally staging is done for testing any new codes or experimenting with different plugins and themes.

This is a great feature which is normally neglected by many people, when you can actually see how your codes will behave without updating them to your main webpage. When working with stable websites updating each and everything live is not a good idea.

Initially a project is designed and developed by your team, instead of updating the entire project to your live site you create a staging site and test it there and if you like show this to your clients, your client’s approval is also important. And once you are all approved to proceed further, make it live. This is the right method to do the job but most of the people won’t consider this even as an option.

When you make updates online first thing you risk is your own business, you never know the plugin you just installed had some malicious code incorporated within which resulted shutting your business. The moment you start making changes to your live site your site becomes unavailable for some time, which may become a major cause that you have lost your rank.  

Your user might get frustrated due to your unavailable and slow service and you might even lose your potential customer. Now you should have understood how grave this problem is and how much loss it can cause you if you are not careful enough. So to avoid such situations one must use a staging site.

The advantages you get while working with in a staging environment is that you can test your projects, websites and blogs without publishing it. If you have recently updated any of your plugin then you can view them before you update it to the live site. And the most important thing is that you won’t be losing any potential users or risk your rankings in the organic search results.

To make a staging site you just have to create a subdomain. For creating subdomain, go to your cpanel. Under Domains tabs you will find an option Subdomain. When you hit subdomain button you will be directed to a window asking you to enter the name of the Subdomain and its Document root. After filling up the form hit on create and it is done. To view your newly created subdomain visit it via your browser, you will be able to view a blank page. You can also create an FTP account for your subdomain if you want.

Conclusion:

A WordPress Database Plugin uses MYSQL for the database management. This will allow you to do the common updating and deleting tasks, creating and updating tables and deleting them. WP Database often stores your blog or website data like your post, comments, tags, site URLs and much more.

WP uses query to generate HTML files for your sites dynamically, thus you do not have to create a new HTML file for each and every page. For managing your database you might like to use phpMyAdmin, it has a graphical interface which makes accessing database and performing basic task easy.

During WP installation you might have got your credentials for your WP database, after installation there will be 11 predefined tables in your database which are preprogrammed to store different parts of your site wp_ are used as extension for these files, for example wp_comments stores your WP comments, wp_users stores user credentials like mail ID, username, password etc.

You will have a phpMyAdmin page in your Control panel use it for making changes to your database, you can change passwords, create backups, optimize your DB or deactivate plugins which are not used and much more.

Creating backups must be in practice while working with heavy database and big projects. For creating backup go for export option at the top bar of your window. You will be prompted for two methods, quick and custom methods. The quick method will directly export your DB and custom method will provide you with more options and lets you download your backup in compressed format (zip or gzip).

When you are working with your database for some time you might feel that the response time of your system is getting down. This is due to the fragmentation of memory overheads. Thus optimizing tables of your database will release all the garbage memory and makes your WP respond faster and reduce the size of your DB.

While creating tables on WP database people use to create custom tables for their database because you can choose data structure which suites your table’s schema, you can control field types and their limits, your data will be separated from other WP flies, and execution of complex queries is easier. For creating, updating and deleting tables some SQL keywords must be remembered like Create Table, Update or Delete, these are the common SQL commands. The syntax of SQL query follows the same syntax as that of the usual MYSQL database.

Taking complete backup of your entire website on a daily basis is not a good idea, because it might slow down your server since huge server resources and storage will be dedicated for backing up, making your sites slow. Duplicate data will also decrease the storage space. Incremental backup on the other hand is a smart approach which takes the backup of the entire website once and then backup only the new changes, this way saving time, server resources and your site won’t get effected by this. This creates a huge difference and advantage for you.

How the process of taking backups incrementally works? Initially a complete backup of the whole website is taken on the day 1 then this backup plugin will compare and scans if there is any new changes or updates made by the user, if yes then copy those changes and create backup. This method of taking backup is great because,

·       It is time efficient

·       Does not takes up much space and resource of server

·       Do not disturbs your customers and users

·       None of the process of backing up will affect your business.

·       And helps you restore even faster.

Even if the backup are done only for the changes made or in fragments restoring the entire site won’t be a problem. You can recreate your project the same way as that of complete backup. There is also an option for incremental restore which will restore only those portion of your project which got lost or damaged by comparing the current backup to the previous backup, which is again a fast way of restoring irrespective of the size of your websites. There are many websites that may provide you this service. You can install this plugin from BlogVault and can get a free trail of 7 days without registering yourself, there are also other reason for choosing the service from BlogVault, installing their plugin is all you have to and everything starts on its own. They will provide you multiple backups and these backups are stored in different storage locations in different servers, so that even though one of the backup at a particular server fails you still have many other backups to retrieve your data. Everything is encrypted that means reducing the chance of getting your data misused by some third person, now your backup is also secured. And all this will be done automatically, the moment your installation is complete so you no need to worry if your data is backed up and is secured or not. Now you might have got the idea why backing up data incrementally is better.

File Transfer Protocol is a Protocol or a set of rules which should be followed while transferring any media or documents through internet, it is the simplest way to do so. WordPress FTP will allow you to upload, download, modify and delete files as you like in your WordPress website. What all can you do with FTP:

·Upload files, media files, themes, Plugins from your system to your server.

·Download document files, media files, themes, Plugins for your website from internet.

·Transfer or Migrate your blog with FTP

·Change and modify permissions of your directories.

 Deleting files which are creating errors.

To access your WordPress FTP account you just need to go to your cpanel of your hosting account, and click on FTP account. You will be prompted to enter your login credentials. Your hosting service provider might have mailed you your FTP credentials when you have applied for their service along with other details. For creating and setting up your FTP account first you need to, choose a suitable FTP client and install it to your computer. After installing you will have to enter your IP address along with user ID and password of your server. Many hosting service providers often provide you with an FTP account and but there is always a limit that how much data can be uploaded or downloaded. Limit is generally mentioned at corners or at side of your cpanel. Do look for SSL certificates while working with FTP because they provide you with a secure session making you less prone to hacking. It will be great if you use FTPS which is a secure FTP that will not expose your credential details to a third person.

If you want to change your directory permission, just right click on it and select permissions. You will be prompted three options Read(r), Write(w) and Execute(x) for Owner, Group and Others/Public. There can be a set of different combinations of permissions like for others/public --- (no permission), r—(read only), r-x (read and execute), for groups rw- or r-x, for owner rwx (overall access) likewise. Others/Public are always given either Read only permission so that they can view the contents but cannot modify it or they will have no permissions at all. Groups are awarded with similar permission set as that of the Owner with some restrictions, and the Owner has all overall access to everything.

To upload files you can either use simple drag and drop can also be used for uploading files or select them manually, uploading files in bulk can be done through FTP easily.

Woocommerce Store is an online store where you can create your own online store with all the features that you want without the headache of writing codes for each of them!

This store was made like any other website was made on WordPress which supports different plugin options. You can sell anything from physical products to digital downloads.

With online stores at boom, a lot of traders are opting for selling their products online. This plugin helps you in building your own online store hassle free. Plus it is completely customizable, you can add or subtract any feature you want. 

The main purpose of an online store are the orders. Suppose you are in the middle of a transaction and the site crashes due to a scheduled backup or due to a malware attack or what if someone hacks in to your website, then all your hard work goes for a toss.

These hackers demand ransom for giving access to your own website! Plus you lose your clients too. Not only the popular websites but these hackers usually target less popular or small websites due less degree of security. These are the easiest to hack, but the popular sites are equally prone to hackers. But these sites use security and backup plugin to help secure their website and content from these hackers and the malware.  

So how to save your website from malware attacks, hacking, breakdowns from the scheduled Backups and reduce the run time?! One simple solution to all your questions, “Woocommerce Store plugins”.

 Now these are the plugins used by a lot of people to increase the security of their website as well as creating backups and migrating their data.

These plugins provide a lot of features and can be used to make your website work more efficiently and effectively, let’s discuss some of the features that these plugins provide.

    Easy Migration, you can migrate your data easily with these plugins. With zero downtime, you can migrate data without worrying about the size of the file, with live tracking and email notification you can track the progress of your file transfer.

  Test Restore, with this feature you can test run a specific backup version of your site and see if that works or not, this helps while developing your site. You can also create multiple sites and test run different versions at the same time and decide which one to upload.

  Incremental Backup, for a woocommerce site, an incremental or real time backup works really well. Since a lot of transactions take place on these sites, backup should be made immediately so that the data can be updated on the website.

 Staging, you can test run a specific update or plugin with this feature before publishing live on the website. This helps to check if that particular update goes well with the backup or not before making any changes directly on the site.

These were some of the major features that will help you to keep your online safe and secure. So, while choosing a Backup and Restore Plugin for your Woocommerce Store make sure you check these points to run your website without any hiccups!

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management System (CMS) available. It helps you to manage all your website’s content be it theme, content, update or backups. It also support plugins to make your website look more tailored and give you that extra edge with competition.

But with popularity comes threat, being popular it is the target of most of the hackers as a lot of people use WordPress for their websites. The concern of WordPress Security is a major issue that every user face. Although WordPress provides you with internal security for your files and website but still you need to be double sure when it comes to security as a freshly installed WordPress with nothing uploaded and kept up to date is at risk of being hacked.

In this article you will find ways by which you can optimize the security of your WordPress.

So, let’s get started.

Why you need to secure your WordPress?

Before getting started, you should know why you need to secure your WordPress, when it is already a secured site. Being a popular site, it is prone to hackers and malware attacks more than any other site, though it provides security to your website but with advancement in technology any content that has been updated online is not safe.

Hackers target small websites because they are easy target with less advanced security thus easy to hack and ask for money to give you access of your own website. These hackers can also misuse the information provided by you on your website and then blackmail you for money. All your hard work to make that website will go to waste. More popular sites are always at the target of these hackers but they use security that can’t be easily hacked.

So, how to protect your site from malware attacks and hackers?

You should always keep your Wordpress updated to keep it away from malwares that are released every day. No technology can help you if your core Wordpress file is not updated. This small step makes a lot of difference. What else you can do is download a plugin that provides you with features like:

 §  Block untrusted folders

§  Limit the number of logins

§  Secure files/folders

§  Block plugin installation

§  Reset all passwords

§  Change security keys

§  One click Malware removal

§  Daily automatic Scans 

What’s best about these plugins is that it provides you with not only the WordPress Security but it also comes with a lot of features such as -

§  Unlimited Storage Space

§  Easy Backup and Restore

§  One click Migration

§  Staging feature

§  Easy recovery option

§  Install updates/themes or plugins

§  Zero/Reduced downtime

§  Site Restoration

§  Daily Backups