Since WordPress is one of the most widely used blogging content management systems, hackers frequently target it. If you run a WordPress website, you will need to take additional precautions to safeguard your website’s data as well as the data of your visitors. A summary of some best practices for WordPress website security can be found in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is extremely important to update your integral WordPress files and all the plugins to their latest versions. Most of the new WordPress versions and the new plugin versions contain improved security patches. Even if the vulnerabilities cannot be exploited easily, it is still important to fix them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is crucial to restrict access to the admin area of your WordPress website. Make sure that only the people who actually need to access the admin area are accessing it and everyone else does not have the admin login credentials. If your website does not consist of features like registration or front-end content creation, any of your website visitors should not get access to the \u2018\/wp-admin\/\u2019 folder or the \u2018wp-login.php\u2019 file of your website. The best thing that can be done is getting your home IP address and add the lines mentioned below to the \u2018.htaccess\u2019 file present in your WordPress admin folder and replace \u2018xx.xxx.xxx.xxx\u2019 with your IP address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<Files wp-login.php><\/p>\n\n\n\n
order deny,allow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deny from all<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Allow from xx.xxx.xxx.xxx<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/Files><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In case you wish to provide access to multiple computers like your home PC, office PC, laptop etc. all you have to do is add another allow command \u2013 \u2018Allow from xx.xxx.xxx.xxx\u2019 on a new line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to access your WordPress website\u2019s admin area from multiple IP addresses, it can be inconvenient to restrict your admin area to a single IP address or to some few IPs. For this situation, it is recommended to restrict the number of incorrect login attempts to your website. This will help in protecting your website from the brute-force attacks and from the people who are trying to crack your website\u2019s password. You can also utilize a plugin called \u2018WP Limit\u2019 for restricting the login attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the hackers and web attackers will assume that \u2018Admin\u2019 is your admin username because many people don\u2019t pay attention at changing this username and work with it for a long time. It is possible to block a lot of web attacks and brute-force attacks by changing the admin username. If you are setting up a new WordPress website, you will be prompted for an admin username during the installation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n