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7 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Website And Prevent It From Getting Hacked




Worried that your WordPress website will get hacked? There are many ways to secure your website and prevent hackers from gaining access to it. Here are 7 of them.

1.     Backdoors

Understand how back doors open up to allow a hacker into your website is crucial. This way, you can protect yourself and have a plan to implement to start the process.

2.     WordPress Hosting

Your web hosting plays a crucial part in your WordPress site security. You should how you can use that to your advantage. Some web hosting companies have done an excellent job of protecting their clients' websites.

3.     Protect WP-Admin

One of the many lines of defence is to protect your WordPress admin login page.
The reason why you want to do this is simply that the way people often get into your site is by trying to brute force their way into your login page.

By brute force, I mean computers and or hackers will try and guess what your password is and your username is.

4.     Different Security Plugins

There are hundreds of different WordPress security plug-ins out there. The question is which one of them is going to protect you from various attacks.

I prefer Jetpack to secure my WordPress website because it prevents unwanted intrusions with effective brute force attack protection, malware scanning, and spam filtering. I tried using Wordfence and it did not work as well.

5.     2-Step Authorization Plugins

Another line of defence is to protect your login page from a two-step authorization process. You can set this up with Jetpack also.

6.     Protect Files

Another line of defence is to protect your files such as your images, your other media files by protecting from hotlinking. This is when an outside source or outside website decides to take your data, such as your images and post it on their site.

What ends up happening is it uses your bandwidth. That might not seem like a big deal, but if a hacker decided to send hundreds and thousands of people to that image it could end up costing you a lot of money.

7.     Password Protection
Creating a strong password may seem like common sense, but you'd be surprised to know how many people do not adhere to this process.

Password protection apps like Roboform will not only help you generate stronger passwords but help you remember your passwords so you don’t have to write them down.

In addition, when you create your WordPress username and password, there are certain things you want to avoid using to prevent brute force attacks. Learn what they are in this WordPress SEO guide for bloggers.

I recommend using more than one of these 7 ways to secure your WordPress website or blog so that you can relax knowing your business is protected.

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