How to secure your WordPress installation
MyTestBox.com shares several important tips to keep your WordPress install secure. Here’s a summary:
- Your “plugins” directory is NOT secured by default!
- Choose a strong password!
- Rename the administrative account!
- Backup your database!
- Log all your $POST variables!
- Plugins that need write access!
- Encrypt all communication within “wp-admin” directory! (if possible)
- Tighten up the file permissions!
- Of course, update your Wordpress!
The last one is the simplest and easiest to follow, especially with the release of WP 2.7. You should at least make sure that you upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.
The blog post also contains links to other articles on hardening WordPress and dealing with hackers, so read it now!
Tips on keeping your WordPress blog secure
Make Tech Easier shares 11 tips on keeping malicious parties from penetrating your WordPress-powered blog. Here’s a snippet:
7) Change your login name
The default username is admin. You can make it more difficult for the hacker to crack your login credential by changing the login name.
You can never be too careful about these things, so be sure to follow the tips mentioned in the article.
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Tip: create a blogging workflow
Chris Brogan writes that keeping up a steady blogging pace is no easy task, so you need to be ready with goals, tasks, tools that can help you out when that “blog drought” comes.
See what makes the front page of Digg.com (or your industry’s most likely haunt) - learning by emulating is an important blogging skill. Don’t be a clone, but if you pick up some tricks from writers you come to admire, all the better.
The article contains lots of excellent tips for those who still haven’t quite kept up with their blogging routines. It’s useful for amateur and professional bloggers alike.
The list to end all lists on How to Blog
Look no further than Skellie’s blog for answers on all your blogging questions. Read The Pocket-sized Guide to Blogging. It’s not too long, not too short. It’s just right.
Take for example her straightforward advice about getting comments:
How to get more comments
- Respond.
Don’t you all agree? Skellie better provide an printer-ready version of the list; I’m sure thousands of bloggers will be asking about it!
