However, not everyone on the web is as friendly as you. Somewhere out there is a list with your blog’s name on it, where it sits, waiting to be targeted by hackers. When they get around to your blog, they’ll try various tactics to gain access to it, perhaps with the aim of selling legal drugs or infecting your visitor’s computers with malware.
Fortunately, there are various ways in which you can protect your WordPress blog from hackers.
Regularly Update WordPress
One of the most powerful but oft-overlooked solutions for keeping WordPress safe from hackers is to make sure it is regularly updated.
Obviously there is a down-side to this – some of your plugins might stop working if WordPress is updated – but at the same time it should be looked upon as an opportunity to refresh your plugins, find replacements that themselves are secure and reliable and basically tighten up your website or blog. Sticking to plugins that are found in the WordPress directory is also a good way to keep things under control.
Updating WordPress is possible from within the Dashboard, but always take a backup of your database before doing so.
Keep Regular Backups
An important procedure for all WordPress blog owners is to ensure that backups are made regularly and that they can easily be restored should the worse happen.
Solutions are plentiful, but Cloudsafe365 is one of the most powerful, combining cloud backup (Dropbox can be used) with various secure protection tools against techniques such as cross site scripting, SQL injection, and even monitors content theft.
Cloudsafe365, available from the WordPress plugins site , comes in three flavors. A free option covers the things listed above, while the paid options offer further features such as protection against code injection and brute force attacks.
Install an Encrypted Login Plugin
Protecting the actual act of logging on to your WordPress-based website is best effected by using an encrypted login plugin, as the website software doesn’t have this facility by default. Probably the best solution for this – perfect for protecting your blog login details from packet sniffers on wireless networks – is Chap Secure Login, which uses the SHA-256 algorithm to protect your username and password.
Meanwhile the Login Lockdown plugin is a useful way of blocking IPs that record repeated failed attempts to access your site.
Other login protection steps you can take includes installing a strong CAPTCHA plugin. RetinaPost is a particularly impressive plugin, requiring users to enter highlighted characters from a phrase rather than try and decipher screwed up text images or do maths challenges. Any attempts to disrupt your blog using the comments system can be markedly reduced using this plugin.
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