Ways to secure word press website in just 15 minutes
http://bit.ly/2r7U3CO - Make sure your website is backed-up - The first step is taking back-up your website is the most secure way. If your website is damaged or compromised in some way, you can always recover from it.
Make sure yourwebsite is backed-up
The first step is taking back-up your website is the most
secure way
If your website is damaged or compromised in some way, you
can always recover from it
Before making changes take a whole back up, so that we can
recover the website if we lost anything
Check hosting provider, they will provide free backups
If not we have loads of plugin available for WordPress
3.
Delete all non-essentialplugin, extension
or plugin
Go for plugin option and look for plugins that are useless to
you
Also, check plugins that are not maintained by developers
We strongly recommend you that don't install any plugin over
2 years of non-maintenance
How you identify? Check at wordpress.com and see for
updates, there you can find out the last update, then delete it
4.
Install the wordfencefirewall in “extended
protection” mode
Go to Firewall menu and enable the extended protection
This code always inspects the request before it executes the
PHP code includes WordPress core code
It allows word fence to intercept and stop the vulnerability
before it even reaches the PHP applications
Word fence protects other PHP applications that installed off
your WordPress base directory, even many doesn’t aware that
this happens automatically
5.
Enable SSL forData Security
The most crucial step for website security is enabling SSL. This
enables you to encrypt the information from and to your
website. It secures the confidential data of all your viewers
Identifying how is easy step, if your website starts with HTTPS
then is secured web page and if it starts with HTTP then is not
SSL secured web page
6.
Change the Adminusername
Remember that everyone knows the Username is “admin”. So,
change it.
Go to user section in admin panel
Delete or rename the “admin” account or username
7.
Secure your cPaneland Admin
Accounts
Sign in WordPress website
Go to Users -> All Users -> Select “Administrator” at the top of
the screen of all the users
Just make sure you know all the accounts
Suppose if you found any account seems foreign to you, then
your website is hacked
8.
Continued…
Then youmust contact a security expert
Delete all the unnecessary admin accounts
The Admin password should be strong and must be random,
don’t use any specifics in the password
9.
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