One of the first things you do when you set up a WordPress site is work on the colours, font, design, and look. Then it's time to add text and data. But what about WordPress security? Don't allow the fun of setting a site that is new up distract you you're putting online.
Installing the secure your wordpress website Scan plugin alert you that you might have missed, and will check all this for you. It will also tell you that a user named"admin" exists. Of course, that is your administrative user name. You find instructions if you desire and can follow a link. I think that a strong password is good enough security, and since I followed those steps, there have been no successful attacks on the blogs that I run.
I protect an access to important files on the site's server by my explanation putting an index.html file in the particular directory, which hides the files from public view.
This is quite useful plugin, protecting you against brute-force password-crack attacks. It keeps track of the IP address of every failed login attempt. You can configure the plugin to disable login attempts for a range of IP addresses when a certain number of attempts is reached.
Install the WordPress Firewall Plugin. This plugin investigates web requests with easy WordPress-specific heuristics to recognize and stop attacks.
But realize that online security is something that you must start thinking about. Do not only be the reactive type, take action to begin protecting yourself today. Do not let Joe the Hacker make your life miserable and turn everything in creating come crashing down in a matter of moments that you've worked so hard.