Ways to Create a Secure Word. Press Site. This article is part of a series created in partnership with Site. Ground. Thank you for supporting the partners who make Site. Point possible. Hackers. Vulnerabilities. Brute force. Formidable Forms Docs. Welcome to the Knowledge base. Select a category below to get started. I have two xml variable say res, student in a stored proc in SQL server 2005. res contains ltSubjectEnglishltSubject ltMarks67ltMarks lt. Malware. Denial of service. Man in the middle. Phishing. All scary words. We live in a dangerous online world Has your site been hacked I have, and were not alone. In 2. 01. 2 more than 7. Word. Press sites were vulnerable to attack, and not much has changed since. What have you done to protect ensure you have a secure Word. Press site In this article weve pulled together security tips from previous Site. Point articles, our own experience, and from around the web, and organized them in a way I hope you find useful and understandable. And most importantly, easy to act on. All in one Word. Press security plugins are useful and well be covering them in our next article, but security requires more than just installing a plugin and walking away. It requires a careful strategy and constant vigilance. Be proactive, not reactive. In other words, dont assume your site is safework out a security plan before you are hacked That being said, there is no such thing as 1. What you can achieve is risk reduction, and find the balance for you between security and convenience. Security is not about perfectly secure systems. Such a thing might well be impractical, or impossible to find andor maintain. What security is though is risk reduction, not risk elimination. Its about employing all the appropriate controls available to you, within reason, that allow you to improve your overall posture reducing the odds of making yourself a target, subsequently getting hacked. codex. Where should you focus your attentionIn an article last year, WP White Security reported the following statistics about hacked websites 4. Word. Press Theme they were using. Word. Press Plugins they were using. Thats where the holes are in your defence. Keep that in mind while youre creating your security strategy. OK. With all that in mind, here are 4. Word. Press site secure. Choose the ones that make sense for you and your site. Secure Word. Press. Keep Word. Press Up to Date. The latest of Word. Press is most likely more secure than the last one, and has less vulnerabilities. So keep it up to dateits a one click operation. Make sure you back up your site first Word. Press updates rarely cause problems, but if you like to be careful, update it on a test server first. Or, if youd just like Word. Press to auto update itself, apply the following code to your wp config. Enable all core updates, including minor and major. WPAUTOUPDATECORE, true. If you dont want to manually update your Word. Press, consider a hosting provider like our partner Site. Ground, which has a special auto update tool available on all plans. Back Up Your Site Regularly. Make sure you make regular backups of your Word. Press site. A backup of Word. Press data and files can play a crucial role in an emergency. If all else fails, you wont have to start from scratchSchedule your backups so you wont forget them, and do a test restore from time to time. Further reading 3. Enable SSL for Word. Press Data Security. Enable SSL to secure your Word. Press site. A Secure Sockets Layer encrypts all information sent to and from your site, keeping it private and preventing man in the middle attacks where a third party listens in or modifies the communication between the client and the server. As a bonus it can also boost your Google Page. Rank. The address of an SSL certified site will start with an HTTPS, while a site thats not SSL certified will begin with HTTP. Its best to activate HTTPS before installing Word. Press, but its possible to update your Word. Press settings if you add it later. Hosting providers like Site. Ground offer free SSL certificates. Further reading 4. Secure wp config. Lock down wp config. Only you should have access. To deny access to this file, you should add the code below at the top of the. Move wp config. php. Move the wp config. Word. Press installation. This will make it inaccessible to anyone using a browser, meaning a cracker has less chance of locating it. Further reading 6. Hide the Word. Press Version Number. Some versions of Word. Press have known vulnerabilities. Someone familiar with those vulnerabilities can discover which version youre using because its shown in the HTML head of every page. Remove that information by adding the following line to your themes functions. You should also remove the readme. Word. Press version number. Remove Word. Press References from Your Theme. Someone will only try to hack Word. Press if they know youre using it. So keep it a secret Remove all references to Word. Press from your theme files. Find and delete the references from the header. Word. Press. Disable PHP Error Reporting. Hackers can use error messages to their advantage. For example, an error from a theme or plugin might display your server path. To disable error reporting, add the following code to your wp config. Change the Default Secret Keys. When you install Word. Press, four secret keys are written to your wp config. They improve encryption of information stored in the users cookies and make it harder to crack your password. Use Word. Press Secret Code Generator to get some new keys, and copy them into your wp config. Secure Your Themes and Plugins. Give special consideration to this section Keep Your Themes and Plugins Up to Date. Dont just update Word. Press, make sure your themes and plugins are also up to date. Each one is a potential back door to your site, and each new version is likely to have less vulnerabilities. Choose Themes and Plugins that are Actively Maintained and Regularly Updated. If there are security vulnerabilities found in a theme or plugin, youd like it addressed as quickly as possible. That wont happen with a theme or plugin thats no longer maintained. Whenever possible, make sure the themes and plugins you use are actively maintained. Further reading 1. Delete Themes and Plugins You Dont Use. If every theme and plugin is a potential back door, reduce the risk as much as possible. If youre not using it, remove it. Deactivating plugins isnt enoughclick DeleteRestrict Access to Your Plugins Directory. Restrict access to your Word. Press plugins directory www. Otherwise, someone browsing the folder can see which plugins youre using, explore them for potential vulnerabilities. Deny access by uploading a blank index. Alternatively add the following line at the start in your. Options Indexes. Eliminate the Plugin and Theme Editor. Theres a built in plugin and theme editor on the Word. Press dashboard. This editor can be used to bring down your entire site if one of your user accounts is hacked. If you dont regularly use the editor, its best to disable it. Insert the following into your wp config. Disallow file edit. DISALLOWFILEEDIT, true. Secure Your Logins. Here are some techniques to improve the security of your login procedures. Change the Admin Username. Avoid using the default admin username, or obvious names like administrator, the name of your site, or your own name. Theyre too easy to guess, and a hacked admin account is more dangerous than an author account. Choose an appropriate admin username when youre setting Word. Press. If your site is already using admin, then create a new admin user, then delete the old one, or alternatively use a plugin like Username Changer. Use a Secure Password. Choose a complex password comprised of letters, numbers and characters. Here are some hints Dont choose a password thats similar to your username. Dont choose a password thats similar to your website name. Dont choose a password thats a common word with a few simple changes. Avoid dictionary words. Consider using a random string of characters. Consider using a good password management tool to securely generate, store a complex password. Here are some tools that can generate a secure password for you Finally, make sure you dont use the same password as you use elsewhere. All passwords should be unique. Force All Users to Have Strong Passwords. Its no good if you use a strong password, but the rest of the team arent so diligent. You dont want any weak links in the chain. You can ensure everyone uses a strong password by using a plugin like Force Strong Passwords. Change Your Password Regularly. The longer you use the same password, the more time you give hackers to crack it.
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