How to avoid security breach in your WordPress website?

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How to avoid security breach in your WordPress
website?
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Introduction

• No doubt that today worlds greatest content
  management system is WordPress . More than 75
  million websites built on WordPress till now and
  nearly 6 new posts / blogs are published every
  second.
• WordPress is most popular business website today
  because it is,
• Open source
• Easy to access and manage
• More theme and plugin options
• SEO friendly
• Blog
• Over 29 thousand plugins developed, 98 versions
  and 75 million websites runs on WordPress. There
  are chances of websites are vulnerable to
  security attacks.

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How to avoid security breach

• Protect you login
• Secure wp-config.php
• Secure wp-content directory
• Block search engine spiders in admin
• Protect .htacess file
• Install SSL certificate
• Other Best Practices

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Protect you login

• Strong user name and password 8 of the total
  website is being hacked due to weaker password. I
  recommend having strong password with pattern as
  upper/lower keys, numbers and symbols. Something
  like catchSahara12!_at_. Keep changing it every 60
  days.
• Limit login attempts Limit the number of failed
  login attempts and restrict IP after that. By
  blocking access to wp-login.php we can block
  unauthorized users, for this you need to edit
  .htacess file.
• Delete Inactive User accounts
• Update WordPress version, Themes and Plugins
• Exploits may occur within days, its necessary to
  keep wordpress version, themes and plugins up to
  date.

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Secure wp-config.php

• All the keys and access information will be in
  wp-config.php file. By editing .htacess file in
  the root directory of wordpress we can secure
  wp-config.php. The following code denies everyone
  access to the wp-config.php file,
• protect wp-config.php
• ltfiles wp-config.phpgt
• Order deny,allow
• Deny from all
• lt/filesgt
• You can also add wordpress authentication keys to
  wp-config.php it helps better encryption of user
  data.

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Secure wp-content directory

• Specific users should only able to access
  specific files types within this directory. This
  file type includes .jpeg, .gif, .png, .js, .css,
  .xml. You need to limit the access, below code
  with help to allow access only to pictures,
  Javascripts, CSS and XML files not other data.
  This code should be implemented in .htacess file
  within the wp-content folder.
• Order deny,allow
• Deny from all
• ltFiles .(xmlcssjpe?gpnggifjs)gt
• Allow from all
• lt/Filesgt

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Block search engine spiders in admin

• You should not index the admin section otherwise
  search engine spiders crawl over your entire
  content unless they are told no to do so. To
  prevent wordpress hack from blocking spiders from
  indexing, create a robots.txt file in root
  directory with following code,
• User-agent
• Disallow /cgi-bin
• Disallow /wp-admin
• Disallow /wp-includes
• Disallow /wp-content/plugins/
• Disallow /wp-content/cache/
• Disallow /wp-content/themes/
• Disallow /trackback/
• Disallow /feed/
• Disallow //feed/rss/
• Disallow /category/

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Protect .htacess file

• .htaccess files are used to specify the security
  restrictions for the particular directory.
  Hypertext access allow for decentralized
  management of configuration when placed inside
  the web tree. To avoid .htaccess hacks include
  the below code in domain root .htaccess file.
• STRONG HTACCESS PROTECTIONlt/codegt
• ltFiles .\.(HhTtAa)gt
• order allow,deny
• deny from all
• satisfy all
• lt/Filesgt

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Install SSL certificate

• It allows you to login securely via https. This
  encrypts the data you and users to your site
  transfer via the site, such as when submitting
  contact forms or using login in pages. Otherwise,
  data is transferred like a postcard in the mail,
  meaning anyone whos looking can read it.
• If you want to use HTTPS when logging into your
  WordPress dashboard, then you can use one of the
  codes below and add them to wp-config.php.
• define(FORCE_SSL_LOGIN, true)
• The code above forces WordPress to use SSL when
  logging into your administration panel but only
  when logging in. It does not enforce the use of
  SSL while using your dashboard.
• Instead of doing this manually you can also just
  add a plugin like WordPress HTTPS (SSL)

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Other Best Practices

• Backup your files on regular basis
• Install WP Security Scan
• Change table prefix
• Prevent directory browsing
• Prevent script injection
• Proper server without any virus
• Dont login in public wifi networks
• Use secure hosting
• Hide dashboard login errors
• Install WP firewall
• Use SSH instead of FTP
• Read more about Secure your wordpress website

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