WordPress Security: Tips to make your website healthy, wealthy and wise

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WordPress Security Tips to make your website
healthy, wealthy and wise

• Protect your WordPress website from harmful cyber
  attacks. Follow these tips to keep hackers at bay
  and secure your SEO performance.

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Introduction

• As a professional wordpress development agency,
  we develop hundreds of WordPress websites every
  year. Which is why we have to take special
  measures to address the problem of WordPress
  security and equip you with workable solutions
  that will prevent hackers from peeking and
  tweaking in your website.
• WordPress is one of the solutions that have
  gotten better with age and has become the primary
  choice of marketers, bloggers, entrepreneurs who
  have something to sell online but dont know
  where to begin.

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Start with WordPress login page

• Avoid using admin as your username
• Regardless of the level of hacker the first
  loophole is the admin username. Even a toddler
  knows that admin username is the primary user
  with all the access of the website. By default,
  youll be assigned, the admin username but
  instead of presenting the hacker with an easy
  breach you can change the default username by
  using an SQL query in PHPMyAdmin. Just ask your
  website developer and he will understand and
  rename the username to something else.

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• 2. A Strong Password can save million
• Regardless of the level of hacker the first
  loophole is the admin username. Even a toddler
  knows that admin username is the primary user
  with all the access of the website. By default,
  youll be assigned, the admin username but
  instead of presenting the hacker with an easy
  breach you can change the default username by
  using an SQL query in PHPMyAdmin. Just ask your
  website developer and he will understand and
  rename the username to something else.

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• 3. Utilize Two-factor Authentication
• If you use two-factor authentication it will be
  difficult for the hacker to break the password
  without first notifying you. The most basic form
  of two-factor authentication is in order to
  access the admin page you require the combination
  of mobile code along with the password. Unless
  the hackers has access to both, cant access the
  your websites secured areas.

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• 3. Shift to HTTPS
• It is a common practice of experienced wordpress
  development agency USA to switch their WordPress
  website to HTTPS in order to give an extra layer
  of security to their website. This will help your
  website to gain access from unreliable hidden
  scrips that are used to steal data from the login
  forum.
• Even if you are not willing to switch to HTTPS,
  WordPress made it compulsory so that you can rank
  better in Google search results.

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Increase your security on WordPress Plugin

• Remove unnecessary Plugins
• The worst mistake that website owners or excited
  entrepreneurs make is that they install too many
  plugins to make the website seamless and fast.
  But, sadly, they forget to uninstall the extra,
  unused plugins. What this does is open a gateway
  that hackers can use to breach security. If you
  dont use a certain plugin, uninstall it at once.
  And dont just uninstall it right away the
  correct way is to deactivate the plugin and then
  uninstall it.

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2. Avoid Using Premium Plugins for FREE

• There are tons of websites out there who claim to
  give Premium WordPress plugins for FREE. Avoid
  downloading plugins from those websites. Always,
  use WordPress official website to download the
  premium version of the plugin.
• Mostly, when you get a plugin from an unknown
  plugin developers, hackers send a Trojan along
  with that plugin and you really dont want to
  hear what can happen next with your website.
• So, make sure that you avoid downloads from
  illegal websites, torrents or taking it from
  unverified developers.

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3. Safeguard the wp-config.php file

• It is important to understand that the
  wp-config.php file contains all the necessary
  confidential information that a hacker needs in
  order to sweep off your website from the
  internet. To add a layer of protection on your
  wp-config.php file, just include this code in
  your .htaccess file
• ltFiles wp-config.phpgt
• order allow,deny
• deny from all
• lt/Filesgt

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Conclusion

• By following these steps, you can help to secure
  your WordPress website and protect your data.
  While no system is 100 secure, these steps will
  make it much harder for hackers to gain access to
  your site.
• You need security measures on your WordPress
  website development company USA. There are always
  going to be people seeking to inflict your
  business by hacking your websites. The best thing
  you can do is dont become a victim of a
  cyberattack and proactively prepare for the
  worst, so you know what to do if a hacker manages
  to make it past all of your defenses.