6 safety tips for your Wordpress blog

In this article I realize 6 safety tips for your Wordpress installation to avoid unauthorized access of strangers and especially the injection of malicious scripts to your blog.
Many thousands of bloggers currently use the blogging platform Wordpress, the platform that used to be so world becomes a target for hackers trying to pierce the security in order to have access to confidential data.

The following tips are in my opinion the key to maintaining a blog minimally secure.

1.
Search for deals install the plugin WP Security Scan. This plugin does a scan to your Wordpress installation in order to find vulnerabilities in passwords, file permissions, database, hiding the version of WP, safety / security of the administration section, where it all together with a hint of security.

2.
Try to remove the version of your Wordpress installation of your template. To do this go to the administration section of your blog and click Presentation> Theme Editor> header.php and search for bloginfo ( 'version'), remove it and save the file.
When removing the bloginfo ( 'version') will make life more difficult for a hacker to look for security flaws of a specific version of Wordpress.

3.
Create an empty index.html file in the plugins directory of your Wordpress installation. To do this, open Notepad and then save a blank file named index.html (note that the extension has to stay on. Html). Then upload the file to your plugins directory of your Wordpress installation.
This method is used to hide the plugins being used by your blog. It is used for the same purpose of the tip above, ie, to hide possible clues to an attacker.

4.
Upload a copy of. Htaccess (present in the root of your wordpress installation) to your wp-admin directory. Using your FTP application (eg FileZilla) or the file manager of your accommodation package. This will prevent the files in your directory wp-admin is accessed by hackers.

5.
Try to change the default administrator name in any Wordpress installation, or change the username "admin" to any other name of your choice. This method can be made through the database using phpMyAdmin. There is nothing out of this world is always risky for an error and can throw his blog for "water down" of course that is easily recoverable if you backup before. To make it through the PhpMyAdmin follow these steps:

1. Open PhpMyAdmin
2. Select Databases
3. Open the database of your Wordpress blog
4. Locate and select the table wp_users (prefixo_users or) and click "browse"
5. Find the admin user and click "edit"
6. Find the parameter user_login and edit the field for the admin administrator name that you
7. Click Go! That's it.

For those who want to change the default administrator name without accessing the database and take risks, you can always use this plugin that allows you to do everything at a more secure manner.

6.
If you want to increase their security through. Htaccess download the plugin site AskApache, this plugin allows you to create a. Htaccess which ensures total safety even when not in use-current version of Wordpress. I leave here 2 sites with very interesting articles about the. Htaccess files, the AskApache Tutorials and the Perishable Press. There is also a good article in Portuguese about the plugin issue in Wordpress-love.com.

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