Learn more about hardening WordPress at Codex

As part of a security policy for your WordPress installation, you should learn about hardening of the installation. The Hardening WordPress page at the Codex (link) contains a lot of information about how to harden your installation, getting rid of security risks and making your blog more secure. The entire process is geared towards not [...]

Do a backup of your WordPress DB using a plugin

You spend a lot of time on your WordPress Blog, lavish care, love and affection and a good supply of tender articles, and through this hard work, you find that the number of readers of your blog is increasing. This only encourages you to ensure that you are spending the regular time required, as well [...]

WordPress security tips (part 9) – Plugins to secure your blog

In continuation of an earlier series of posts towards making your WordPress installation more secure, here are some more plugins and steps to increase the security of your WordPress installation. An important plugin that can help in ensuring that you are able to detect the security leaks in your WordPress installation is called “WordPress scanner”.

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WordPress security tips (part 8) – Plugins to secure your blog

In continuance of an exploration of a series of articles that explore how to increase the security level of your WordPress blog, I will be presenting information on 2 more plugins in this post. These deal with increasing the security level of the Admin section of your blog (very important) through the use of SSL; [...]