Monday, 18 June 2012

14 essential tips for securing your WordPress site

The security of a WordPress site is not to be taken lightly. Hacking of WordPress site can happen to anyone and with these 14 tips will help limit potential damage. This is when everything works correctly we should take action for prevention beforehand.

Backup your site fully and regularly WordPress


Before any work, do a regular backup of your WordPress site. You must save the following items:
  • Your MySQL database;
  • Your FTP account;

It may be that your host has a full backup directly accessible via cPanel for example. Take this opportunity to get a ZIPtips for securing your WordPress site full backup of your site!
The management platform your host may have a backup tool
You can also use the backup system in the cloud proposed by Automattic – the organization behind WordPress, which is named VaultPress. It can downloaded as a full backup or partial (plugins, themes, MySQL) at regular intervals (several daily backups). This is paid option.

Online backup has good free alternative.
Remember to put in place a system of automatic backup of your MySQL database.

Keep your WordPress site updated

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