Securing your wordpress blog is a must if you don’t want months of hard labour flushed down the drain by hackers. Using a few plug-ins, you could to an extent frustrate any hack attempt on your wordpress blog.
Note: If your blog has been hacked, you might want to consider having a look at this blog post; How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation.
Here are 6 plug-ins to increase the security around your wordpress installation.
- Limit Log-in Attempts: This plug-in protects your log-in form from hackers using brute force attack. With brute force attack, hackers repeatedly try to log into your account by guessing your username and password. This plug-in has the functionality to alert you via email the very minute someone tries and fails to log into your admin area. It can also shut down your blog’s log-in area after a certain amount of trials @ logging in from a particular IP.
- Wordpress Table Rename: As said on the wordpress site, many published WordPress-specific SQL-injection attacks make the assumption that the table_prefix is "wp_," the default. Changing this probably amounts to security by obscurity, but will block at least some SQL-injection attacks.
- WP Prefix Table Changer: Serves the same function as the above plug-in.
- No Generator: Do not advertise your wordpress version. This is true for cheap hackers cos the big hackers don’t need it. All the big hackers need to do is check the capabilities of your wordpress blog. All the same it’s still worth installing and hiding your wordpress version as a small time hacker might be the one to ruin your blogging business. Better still, you could also use Secure WP plug-in.
- Wordpress Database Backup: Backup database regularly. If your database gets messed up by hackers or your own error, a database backup will save your life! Trust me. The Wordpress Database Backup gets the job done in no time. It even gives you an option to automatically schedule a backup of your database and have it sent to your email everyday. This is the best option as sh*t can happen when you least expect it to. You might want to check out my tutorial @ QuickOnlineTips on How To Backup and Restore Wordpress Database.
- SI Captcha: This plug-in has an option to add a captcha to your log-in page so as to twat the efforts of hackers that use bots to break into sites.
The only thing that I can promise will keep your blog secure today and in the future is upgrading.
For more tips on wordpress plug-ins, be sure to read the following posts:Those @ Wordpress say “Upgrading is a known quantity of work, and one that the WordPress community has tried its darndest to make as easy as possible with one-click upgrades. Fixing a hacked blog, on the other hand, is quite hard. Upgrading is taking your vitamins; fixing a hack is open heart surgery.”
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Truly, it’s better to shed some sweat upgrading than the head that come with being HACKED.
I did know of some of this plugin but have never really try out any, however, I don’t joke with upgrading preventive method.
@Dayo Edunjobi: When I started out I updated frequently but of late I’ve been getting lazy as the upgrade procedure is quite hectic in my opinion. I monitor the reason for each upgrade and if I feel I need to upgrade ASAP I do so, otherwise I let things be till the next update release.
Your right Chuck. Boy, it can be hectic indeed, especially with the plugin compatibility issues. However, most times it worth the pain.
Your right Chucks, especially with the plugins compatibility headache. However, sometimes it can be worth the pain.
I think that first one, limiting the number of log-ins, is probably one I need to check out for sure. I hadn’t even thought about it, and I didn’t know about this particular plugin. Overall, though, I hate captcha’s because I have a hard time reading them. Great finds here.
It’s an amazing plug-in. I typed in the wrong password once upon a time and locked myself out for 20 mins. I had to delete the plug-in via FTP to get access to my admin area again as it was an emergency. LOL.
So far so good, it’s successfully blocked only one attempt. I guess hackers ain’t interested in small time sites like mine
Hope you enjoy the plug-in. Cheers
Much thanks for the great tutorial. I am always on the look-out for great plugins like you mentioned to recommend to my clients. Thanks for taking the time to write this post. Do you know the answer to this question: Will inactive plugins slow down WordPress? I mindful that active plugins will slow things down, but I’m just wondering if inactive plugins will? Does anybody know?
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Some folks say that inactive plug-ins slow done blogs but I’ve never experienced that and I don’t think the wordpress theme has confirmed that either