Getting Smart About Wordpress Security

It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"don't precede malware threat." I was horrified to remember exactly what it said although there was more. I was concerned about my site I had spent hours on being destroyed plus humiliated that the people on the call had seen me vulnerable.



I back my blogs frequently using a free plugin WP DB Backup up. I will restore my blog to the settings if anything happens. I use WP Security Scan free plugin to scan my blog frequently and WordPress Firewall to block asks to fix hacked wordpress database.

There are many ways to pull this off, and many of them involve re-establishing more and databases and FTPing files, exporting and copying. Some of these are very complex, so it's important that you select the one that is right. If you are not of the technical persuasion, then you might want to look into using a plugin for WordPress backups.

Luckily, keeping your WordPress site up-to-date is one of the most easy things you can do. For the past couple of versions, WordPress has included the ability to install updates. Not only that, but websites are notified whenever a new update becomes available.

BACK UP your site and keep a visit here copy on your own computer and off-site storage. Back up every day, if you have a very active site. You spend a whole lot of time and money on your site, do not skip this! Is BackupBuddy, no back up your files, widgets, database and plugins. Need to move your site this will do it!

However, I advise that you install the Login LockDown plugin in place of any.htaccess controls. Login requests will stop from being permitted after three failed login attempts from a specific IP address for one hour. You can get into your admin panel while and yet you still have good protection against hackers, if you do so.