WordPress Security
As more and more versions of WordPress are released, unfortunately more and more hacks become prevalent, especially in outdated versions. So, the obvious way to keep your WordPress installation secure, is to keep your site upgraded to the latest version. This is the Number One way to keep your safe free of hacks.
However, there are many other things you can do, including the following:
1. Make sure you do not give unnecessary ‘Write’ permissions to directories and files that do not need it [done via FTP].
2. Moderate your registrations for users on your site.
3. Use secure passwords.
All very simplistic and not very hard to implement and yet in doing so, you will make your site so much more secure.
I am constantly amazed at how many sites I work on for people, that have such simple passwords in place. If your name is John, it is probably not the best idea to use ‘john‘ as your password. And yes, this would seem obvious, but as I say, I see this kind of thing all the time. Look at it this way: no amount of secuirty will keep out unwanted visits to your files, if you are silly enough to leave the key on display at the front door.
Of course, one of your best safeguards if you are hacked and you are at risk of losing all of your site content, is to make sure you do regular backups of your database. This will be covered in a more in-depth article to come soon, but for now, let me highly recommend that you do at least a ‘weekly’ backup of your database. It really does give you peace of mind.
A few excellent articles on WordPress security:
You may have already guessed - my name is James. I kind of 'live' on the Net. I fix sites, I build sites, I hack sites [ummm. maybe I should re-word that]. I 'hack' code until it does what I want it to do...
