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Protect WordPress Blog from Intruders

By John Hoff
Author of the WordPress Defender eBook

In this article, I want to give you two basic tips as to where to start out and do the--protect WordPress blog thing.

But before we start, it's important for you to first understand how big of a problem WordPress cracking is.

Take a moment and head over to Google and do a few searches on things like "my blog was hacked" or "how to fix a hacked blog". I'm sure you'll see a ton of results come up for searches like that.

You could also head over to the WordPress support forums and do a similar search. Again, you'll find that people are getting their blogs hacked into all the time and as bloggers we really need to do this "protect WordPress blog" thing.

Now that you know people get their WordPress hacked all the time, you can now move on to the security aspects.

So below I'd like to list out a few general ideas to remember when it comes to securing your WordPress blog and keeping your ventures online safe.

Keep Unique Online Passwords

This is a part so many people miss.

It's important to make sure that for every site you're set up with which requires you to create a username and password, that you don't use the same password for every site.

Why?

Well let's say your Facebook account and your WordPress blog both have the same username and password. Now let's say someone hacked into Facebook and obtained a bunch of usernames and passwords (don't mean to pick on Facebook, this is just an example). I'm sure since you're a blogger that you have a link somewhere on your Facebook page linking over to your blog.

And since your login credentials are the same, this person now has the ability to log themselves into your WordPress account.

How To Keep Strong, Unique Passwords

There's a really neat program out there for PC users called, Roboform, which is a password and site manager I use to manage all the membership sites I belong to.

It's free to try, so check it out because this tool will definitely help you stay more secure in your online ventures.

If you're a Mac user, try 1Password instead.

Use Strong Passwords

This one might seem like a no brainer, but I've done some work for clients in the past which require me to know their WordPress blog's username and password.

There's been more times than I'd like to see in which they have had way too simple passwords for their WordPress blog.

Here are some examples of weak to strong passwords:

Again, if you use a password manager like I mentioned above, all your sites you're registered with like Twitter, Facebook, hosting accounts, WordPress, etc. could all have different and unique "Excellent" rating passwords. The program would even take you to the login page and log you in automatically, all with just one click.

Where To Learn More...

Check out my book, WordPress Defender. It'll teach you everything I know about WordPress security.

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