Easy Tips to Improve Security On Wordpress - In the online world, the security system is very important to consider, as well for you as a blog or website owner must also consider the security of your site. If you're a WordPress user, it is important for you to apply. Because in this article I will provide easy tips on improving the security of WordPress, so that your WordPress site remains safe and protected from hack attacks.
5 Tips to Improve WordPress Security
In this post, covering five quick and easy tips that you can apply today to secure your WordPress site.
1. REMOVE USERNAME "ADMIN"
Username "admin" is the default name used by WordPress and also very often used by most beginners WordPress. Username with the name "admin" has been commonly known and used, and that if you do not replace will make it easier for someone to potentially hack into your WordPress site.Here's how to remove the username "admin":
- Please create a new username on the "Users" and create a unique name that is not easily guessed by others. And make your username is different from the user name that will be displayed at the frontend of your WordPress site. Because if you do not make different, then it is of no use, because others can easily see it in the "Author" of each of your posts.
- Create a strong password on the new user with some unique characters and a mix of letters, numbers and small capital letters. And do not forget to set the new user by user role "admin".
- Once you've finished creating your new user, please log out and log in with the username and password that you just created. Then go back into the menu section "Users" and remove your old username with the name "admin".
2. Always Update Wordpress and All Plugins and Themes
Keep always to update the old Wordpress to new WordPress , WordPress Themes and WordPress plugins. Security vulnerabilities are often found and corrected as soon as possible in the new release version. Keeping the core WordPress, plugins and themes are always up to date will help prevent security vulnerabilities on the your site.
When you log into your WordPress dashboard, always see if visible notification or a notification in admin bar at the top of the screen that tells you how many updates you should do for your site. In the example image above shows that there are nine available updates for plugins and themes in this WordPress site. And to do an update on WordPress is easy, you just need to click the update and all will be completed very quickly.
3. Remove Wordpress Plugins and Themes Unnecessary
It is also important for you to do, by removing the plugin and theme of your site are not enabled. You should really check whether any plugins you use are useful to you. And if it finds that are not useful and remove them immediately. Also do not also collect not useful plugins in your WordPress site, because it would be very bad for the smooth running WordPress sites, and this is often done by a novice WordPress users.
When you remove unused WordPress plugin, make sure that it is completely removed, both on the site and your database. Since there are several plugins to leave information that remains in your WordPress database.
4. Update SALT AND KEY Periodically
WordPress uses cookies (or information stored on your browser) to verify the identity of the user login and commentator.
WordPress also enter a security key authentication secret and salt into a file of your WordPress wp-config.php. Salt WordPress is a random string of data hash WordPress, as security locks in place on the wp-config.php file. Basically, these WordPress security lock is an additional password to your site long, random and complicated, making them almost impossible to be guessed.
If you open your wp-config.php file, you'll see Authentication Unique Keys and Salt with seven parts of the security key.
To make Salt and Key, please visit the link here.
And please feel free to copy salt and the key to replace the salt and key which is mounted in the file wp-config.php you.
5. Ensure that uses Strong Password For Every User
A strong password is a password that consists of several unique character that is difficult for someone to guess and make brute force attacks more difficult to solve.
When you make your password, be sure to make it as follows:
- Create a password to include alphabetic and numeric characters, try more than one.
- Create a password by including an unique characters such (! @ # $% ^ & * ())
- Create a long password, at least 10 characters
- Create a password by not including the name, date of birth, a website name or names that are easy to guess.
By having strong passwords is a bit difficult to remember, but it is better to create than you should lose your WordPress site.
ADDITIONAL
Consider using WordPress Security Plugin. By using good security plugin and competent to make the above steps easier. And the security of your WordPress plugin is also more powerful because security was specially created to enhance the security of WordPress as a whole in every important part WordPress a frequent target of hackers. For example plugins that I would suggest is iThemes Security.
You can use the free version of iThemes to try, and the free version alone makes your WordPress site much safer than before. However if you feel less, then you can buy the pro version of iThemes security.
And that's some easy tips to improve the security of your WordPress site. Please apply the simple tips above so your WordPress site remains safe. Good luck.
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