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Security of WordPress Website
WordPress is a web software used by most of the people to create website or blogs. People used to write articles and blogs in WordPress and improve the presentation of the website by using plugins and themes. You must know a brief introduction about WordPress before starting your online journey.
We all know that web hosting is required when one decided to make its online presence but many of the hosting service providers like Namecheap, Bluehost etc provide WordPress Hosting for their clients. So if you are deciding to have a WordPress website then you can check the latest plans. If you want to register any new domain then, you can opt to REDSERVERHOST where you will get best services at affordable price.
Now, coming back to the topic WordPress. Having a website is quite simple but managing data and its protection is equally important. We all know that number of website are continuously increasing with the time so competition is increasing because of which we have to manage the website carefully and provide the visitors with better user experience for which you can take some security measures for website security.
Before discussing about the steps to secure the WordPress website, let us know what is site security and website hardening. Both the words are relatable with simple difference. Site Security include procedures that are used to protect the website while website hardening means adding layer of protection to secure WordPress website.
Today, in this article I will discuss some of the steps that are used to secure and harden the WordPress website. Read the whole article to know in detail.
There are several ways to harden WordPress website but here I will discuss some important that are easy and effective.
#Step 1. Strong Password
You need to set strong password to WordPress login. While installing WordPress, username and password generated by default which can be changed at the time of installing or later on. But remember, use special type of username and password that cannot be guessed easily and remember easily.
Passwords must include numbers, letters characters in upper and lowercase and should not related to your name, birth date etc.
#Step 2. Allow Least Privilege Permission
You should limit the access by allowing least privilege. That means you must not add more administrators to do tasks within the website. You can restrict the privileges according to the roles.
*Note: For multi-site owner, super admin has all the privileges while in single site owner, administrator manages the website.
#3. Install SSL
SSL is the first level of security that has been added to the website at the beginning itself. Because of this most of the hosting providers like REDSERVERHOST, BlueHost, NameCheap etc provide free SSL to all the users. If this feature is not enable in your hosting plan then, you can install Free SSL as well.
#4. Change WordPress Login URL
As discussed earlier, at the time of installation WordPress generates default username and password. It also creates default directory WordPress inside cPanel where all the WordPress directories or files are saved. This directory allows user to access WordPress and its files. You can rename the file for securing your WordPress website.
#5. Limit Login Attempts
You can not only limit the access but also limit login attempts. You must have observed in many of the websites, that you cannot try login more than a specific number of times. If you have done so, you will be blocked. So, this can be done with the WordPress website as well.
#6. Two-step Authentication
You can also add two-step authentication to login to your WordPress dashboard. This should be added to all the users who manage website data such as Administrator, Contributor, Editor etc.
You can install plugins like WP 2FA, Jetpack etc for the same.
#7. Install Security Plugins
The above mentioned steps are enough to secure your WordPress website, but if you want to add more security layers to your website, then you can install security plugins as well.
As it can be observed in the article that you have much features to manage website and its data while working with WordPress. These are the few steps to secure WordPress website, you can try any to secure and harden your website.
We will share more articles related to web hosting and WordPress. Till then,
Happy Reading !!
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