Comments on: Stop Hackers: Protect Your WordPress Blog

By: Seo Diva

Seo Diva — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:20:37 +0000

@Security Gates - thanks for the plugin tip!

By: Security Gates

Security Gates — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:17:42 +0000

Nice post, Wordpress is becoming especially vunerable because of the sheer volume of people who have installed it on their servers. The Scan plugin in particular is really useful for picking up on plugins etc that offer a way in.

Remember you can password protect with htaccess too.

By: Rich Hill

Rich Hill — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:49:26 +0000

Hey Diva,

I subscribed, gets you one closer to your goal.

I’m going to try some of these privacy tools, sounds like just what I’ve been looking for on one of my Blogs.

I’m trying to set up categories for individual subscribers, each to have their own section with login. Got to test some out.

Thanks.
Rich

By: Mark Ramige

Mark Ramige — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:26:35 +0000

I’m not sure if deleting the admin account will affect previous posts or not. But if you know how to edit the database (using phpmyadmin which most shared hosts have). You can go to the wp_users table. Edit the admin account and change the user_login field to whatever new name you want.

By: John M

John M — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:38:03 +0000

I am willing to use “Replace WP Version”, I think there is no need to install anything else if you can deceive a software by version change.

By: SEO Diva

SEO Diva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:50:06 +0000

Dennis - I held my breath and did it, and it worked just fine…I can still access my dashboard!

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:22:49 +0000

Awesome idea, but just the thought scares the non-techie heck outa me

By: SEO Diva

SEO Diva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:53:31 +0000

@devjargon - excellent idea! I didn’t realize you could delete the admin account. That will be my next step. Thanks for the tip!

By: devjargon

devjargon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:06:09 +0000

I would also suggest using a different account than the admin account. Through admin, create another account giving it full privileges and then delete the admin account. This will make hacking the account much harder since most bots / hackers try the admin account.

Just a suggestion though.

By: SEO Diva

SEO Diva — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:19:00 +0000

@Virtual Impax - trying to tweak themes can be so risky sometimes, I always look for a plugin to help me out!
@Drunken Dragon - thanks for your input - I will check it out.

By: Drunken Dragon

Drunken Dragon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:04:56 +0000

Nice articles. But I unrecommended Replace WP version plugin because it can’t be used with other plugin that read your WP blog version. See the plugin faq

By: Virtual Impax

Virtual Impax — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:36:30 +0000

I hadn’t heard of Apache Password Protect. Will definitely be giving that a try as well as the Replace WP version plug in! (I’ve been removing the references in themes by hand. This will be easier!)

By: SEO Diva

SEO Diva — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:24:58 +0000

@db0 - you’re welcome!
@Search Engine - you’re right, and we have to protect ourselves online in many ways…just the way it is.
@Dennis - as far as I can tell they work fin together. Thanks for the tip on the link - I have corrected it.
@Mircea - thanks for your article - you have some great info in it.

By: Mircea

Mircea — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:41:36 +0000

Thanks for posting the link to my website regarding Wordpress security. Hope it helps other people too.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:22:45 +0000

This is fantastic, thanks! So as far as you know, all the above plugins work together and don’t mess with other plugins either?

Btw, the WP Security Scan link goes to the Login Lockdown page, is that right?