Tips to protect your blog
To protect blog from hacking or failure is most important for all bloggers. Here are some tips for that:
1. Username: By default in all WordPress installs the username is ADMIN, create a new account and change the username. Delete default account. Use very strong passwords, It should not include your general information like birth date, phone number or your nick name. Use a complicated password.
2. Hide your WordPress version. Hiding your WordPress version would help you to prevent hackers to hack your blog. Many WordPress themes have Meta Tag which shows your current version of Wordpress. Drop Meta Tag , Which is under header.php file :
<meta content="WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ? />" name="generator" />
3. Directory Structure: Many Wordpress installations allow visitors to see all files in folders which don’t have an Index file. So, hide your directory structure with help of index file. You just need to add index file , that is ,indec.html file in each directory to want to hide.
4. Upgrade: It’s always better to upgrade plugins and WordPress. But before upgrading take backup of all your data, otherwise it might get lost while upgrading .
5. Wp-Admin folder: Hackers generally keep on guessing admin passwords until they reach to correct one. You can use these two methods to prevent hackers to use your passwords:
· Login Lockdown plugin : This note the IP address of every failed login attempt within a specific period of time. If more than certain numbers of attempt is discovered than it disable the login for all request from that specification.
· Limit access by IP address: Find your IP address and put this code in .htaccess file .You can even allow more than one IP address by adding new ALLOW line for each IP address.
< Limit GET POST PUT>
Order deny, allow
Deny from all
allow from ( your IP address)
</Limit>
I hope these points will help to protect your blog. If you are aware of more tips, do share with us.
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I admit I haven’t done one of those. This means my site is vulnerable to hackers. I’ll get into these when I have enough time. These tips are worth to follow.
Glad Marlene that you liked the article.Thanks
Recently wrote a similar kind of post
Good one Ruchi.
I will surely go through your article.
And what about blogspot ???
If you know share the same in simple words with example.
In fact, if the hacker want to hack someone – No ways for protect (DDOS, local, etc….) That’s only a basic protect and hope no more victim of them
Agree with you.
Yes, hacking is serious issue these days.
All very good tips and a few I really need to get instituted right away, I will be sharing this in my Sunday Smash next week. I would be willing to bet there are a tremendous amount of bloggers that never do half of the things above or even consider them.
Permission setup is another thing we should consider..
I have recently installed Login lockdown plugin to help prevent the attacks on my blog. I would also suggest checking all your folder permissions to ensure no one has access to your folders where they can do damage.
I also suggest that you always stay up to date with WordPress version.
Thanks for adding one more Tip.
Nice one Ruchi and specially this is coming at the time when Wordpress is being compromised by hack attempt.
I am going to follow some of these tips right now!
But i think small blogs wont be a target to hackers because they wont really get anything from them. Hackers will target bigger blogs!
Nice tips, especially the one on upgrading. There is a worm going around now attacking older versions of WordPress, but anyone who upgraded is safe from it.
wow I have never thought about this previously. These things would have never come to my mind unless I landed in your website.
Thanks
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