WordPress Security Tips: 3 Most Important Tips For Your WP Blog

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Right AD 01 300*280 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3821721713353589" data-ad-slot="8456927150" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>// <![CDATA[ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ]]></script> Recently, two weeks back after writing a post (guest posting vs article marketing) I published it and every thing was normal after two minutes (approximately) when I opened the same post I saw <b>Page Not Found Error!</b>, then I immediately tried to login to my blog admin panel and to my surprise logins were not accepting I was in a dilemma -”did I got hacked!” (logins automatically changed to old ones not hacked) I went to home page and saw that it is showing two months back old posts, all new posts were deleted.<br /> <br /> <br /> Most sad things was I <b>didn`t had back up for one month posts!</b> thought may be my hosting people will have back up but, after chatting with them I came to know that they can give only two weeks back up that too paid! Everything was blank for me at that time.<br /> <br /> <b>Read more: <a href="http://www.gujugroup.com/2015/11/how-to-get-index-your-new-post-faster.html" target="_blank">How To Get Google Index Your New Post Faster</a></b><br /> <br /> <!-- 01 ibangla 300/90 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3821721713353589" data-ad-slot="3456381953" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 300px;"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /> But suddenly I saw that all my post were back <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120609010331im_/http://capturedbloggingtips.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" /> and with same logins (reason for problem was shifting blog from old hosting to new one, some problem with blog data transfer). Now, I  decided that I need to take backup of every week so <b>to alert my fellow bloggers who are ignoring backup (like I did) am sharing this post</b>.<br /> <h3> 3 Most Important And Basic WordPress Security Tips</h3> <h4> <b>#1 Remove Default Admin Account</b></h4> By default wp blogs take <i>admin </i>as user name for administrator login, it is same for all wordpress blogs. If you will not change your default admin login then you are keeping a window open for hackers. So the first thing you need to do is change admin user.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPY_0fKCxbFHFvtBQEi8bCyqdh-OGvSD_ReheVsmoLaTfgW7eVF9wgDnKyCRQZnCrtuXXunZc98bVOBgYkq56PZogHHGvNKJR_alunryDQ03CliPt96_h4dl2TEAheAWF_CZ6-cEOgawrf/s1600/wordpress-security-tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPY_0fKCxbFHFvtBQEi8bCyqdh-OGvSD_ReheVsmoLaTfgW7eVF9wgDnKyCRQZnCrtuXXunZc98bVOBgYkq56PZogHHGvNKJR_alunryDQ03CliPt96_h4dl2TEAheAWF_CZ6-cEOgawrf/s1600/wordpress-security-tips.jpg" /> </a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b>How Remove Default admin?</b><br /> <br /> Step 1: After logging into wordpress blog dashboard <b>create new user</b> with different name (different email address) and grant this user administrator role (You will find an option when create new user).<br /> Step 2: Logout of dfault <i>admin</i> dashboard and now login with newly created user and delete the default <i>admin. </i>Thats it! you are done.<br /> <h4> <b>#2 Secured Password</b></h4> Getting user name is very simple for hackers, so to save your blog from them user very complex passwords. How to do that? <b>Use combination of alphabets, numbers and special symbols (!@#^&)</b>. Use <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx" target="_blank" title="password security">microsoft password checker</a> to check complexity of your password.<br /> <br /> And change your hosting account passwords also.<br /> <h4> <b>#3 Backup! Backup! Backup!</b></h4> Very important and mostly ignored tip. Backup will save your work for draining out. As in the above para I shared my experience (please read if you skipped it). Things will be bad some times having backup will get you out of those bad situations.<br /> <br /> <b>Read more: <a href="http://www.gujugroup.com/2015/11/what-things-make-your-blog-boring.html" target="_blank">What Things Make Your Blog Boring</a></b><br /> <br /> <!-- 01 ibangla 300/90 --> <br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3821721713353589" data-ad-slot="3456381953" style="display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 300px;"></ins><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /> I would like to give you one more tip (you may call it a bonus tip <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120609010331im_/http://capturedbloggingtips.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" /> )<br /> <br /> Update your wordpress version regularly. Its very simple all you need to do is to click update but take back before doing it.<br /> <br /> In my next posts will still all other wordpress security tips! 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