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

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.<br>

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

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  1. 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.

  2. 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 don’t know where to begin.

  3. 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, you’ll 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.

  4. 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, you’ll 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.

  5. 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, can’t access the your website’s secured areas.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 don’t use a certain plugin, uninstall it at once. And don’t just uninstall it right away — the correct way is to deactivate the plugin and then uninstall it.

  8. 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 don’t 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.

  9. 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: <Files wp-config.php> order allow,deny deny from all </Files>

  10. 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 don’t 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.

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