Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers 0

Methods to Protect (Secure) WordPress Blog From Hackers. There are many ways and methods which will help to protect and secure your wordpress blogs from the hackers, make sure you use all these methods to save your blog.

Here are some of the ways and methods to keep hackers away from your wordpress blog -
Always upgrade your WordPress blog up to date. But the versions of wordpress will come in no time, upgrading from time to time is not possible for all bloggers, but atleast upgrade your blog once in 6 months.
Make use of LockDown wordpress plugin, which will lock out users if they enter password wrong, the number of times you have set in plugin settings (most of them will set as 3)
Changed your blog passwords frequently and don’t set common passwords, make use of numbers, special characters, upper and lower case combination.
Always remove or delete unused themes and plugins as they will make your number of files more.
Always Back up the blog and database, so that if your blog has been hacked you may ask help from your web hosting company. They will remove the hacker and you can restore your blog.
Hide your blog’s wordpress version number. To do this just remove the following line from your theme’s header.php – php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
Before installing new plugins check if the plugins are good and working properly, because weak plugins may have unwanted codes which may damage your site or its page ranking.
By default username will be ‘admin’ during wordpress installation, change your username.
Always login to your blog via SSL if your host has an SSL certificate.
These are some of the simple methods and ways to protect and secure your wordpress blog from hackers and others. If you have more tips please share with us via