How You Can Increase Your WordPress Security

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WordPress is a content management system that’s being used by millions of website owners worldwide to manage their websites. As with any other online system, it can have security issues whereby some malicious fellow could intercept your password and be able to login to your website. This really is a scary prospect for everyone whose livelihood depends online. In this article, we will show you how you can the increase the security of your WordPress website so you can sleep soundly at night.

Any form of security online is really dependent on passwords so, the first thing you need to do is to make a password that is very secure and very hard to guess. When you’re setting up your WordPress blog, you will automatically be notified if you’re password is a strong one as you are typing it.

There are plugins out there that purport to make your website secure. Go to the plugins section of your admin panel and search for “WordPress security.” Before downloading, check the ratings as well as the number of downloads for a particular plugin. A plugin that has an average of four star ratings and 5,000 downloads is really better than a plugin with 5 star ratings and only 100 downloads free wp security plugin.

The next thing you need to do is to secure you website connection by installing anti-virus software on your computer. WordPress itself has its own security measures which prevents malicious login, for example, your access is automatically locked out if you login unsuccessfully three times. However, no amount of security measures from WordPress will work if a virus or some other type of malicious software breaks is able to crack your password from your computer and login from there. In other words, WordPress cannot tell the difference between a bot and a human logging in from your computer.

Also, install a secure web browser that can automatically weed out malicious transmissions. We would recommend browsers like Mozilla Firefox.

Your choice of web hosting service will also affect how secure your website is going to be. Do NOT host your websites on free web hosting account because you always get what you pay for. You do pay for the free service with a less secure connection.

If you’re logged in to your cPanel, make sure to set up file access restrictions. If you don’t know how to do it, just ask your web hosting service for instructions on how to set it up.

Your internet service provider or ISP also plays a role in your WordPress website’s security. Whatever you do, make sure you only use an ISP service that has a secure connection. You can check with your ISP what type of security measures they are implementing in order to secure their connection.

In all, securing your WordPress website really isn’t as difficult as it sounds. You can make your website as secure as it can be by implementing the measures we mentioned above and making sure you have a hard-to-crack password.

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