It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"don't precede malware threat." There was more but I was horrified to recall exactly what it said. I was worried I had spent hours on being destroyed plus humiliated the people on the telephone had seen me vulnerable.
Installing the secure your wordpress website Scan plugin alert you that you might have missed, and will check all this for you. It will also tell you that a user named"admin" exists. Needless to say, that is the administrative user name. You find instructions if you desire and can follow a link. I personally believe that there is read the article a strong password protection that is good, and there have been no attacks on the several blogs that I run, since I followed those steps.
A simple way would be to use a few tools that are built-in. To begin with, do not allow people run a web host security scan, to list the files in your folders and automatically backup your entire web hosting account.
Exclude pages - This plugin adds a checkbox,"include this page in menus", which can be checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page won't appear in any listings of webpages (which contains, and is ordinarily limited to, your webpage navigation menus).
What's the best way? Out of all of the choices that are available right now, which one is appropriate for you and which path should you choose?
Change your password, often, or admin username and your WordPress password and collect and use fantastic WordPress security tips to keep hackers out!