How to Secure Your WordPress Site

In a word of constant identity theft, hacking, and computer threats it is important to secure your WordPress websites from potential attacks. There are several ways to ramp up the security of your website including: Stronger passwords Limiting login attempts Moving login page Security Plugins / Solutions Add an SSL Creating a Strong Password It is important to protect your website with a strong password. Passwords are, at the end of the day, the final line of defense between your website and the people who would like to do you harm. Choosing a strong password is of extra importance on WordPress because anyone can access your website login page simply by typing yoursitename.com/wp-admin into the search bar. This leaves your site vulnerable to potential attacks. Luckily this can be changed in order to ramp up your website security. What Does a Secure WordPress Password Look Like? Secure passwords should be a random sequence of characters, numbers, and special characters. It should not include any reference to your website's URL as that is the most common thing to guess in a hacking attempt. For example, if your…

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What is WordPress?

WordPress in its simplest terms is a content management system, also called a CMS. It helps to structure and display content creating a website that users can interact with. WordPress was originally only for blogging, but as time has gone on it has become more robust. It is not a functional and flexible platform that allows amateurs and pros to make amazing websites. WordPress is also very useful because it is open source. This means that it is open to the public to create new software, and plugins to further the usability of the CMS. All of these resources make it really easy and convenient to find solutions to common problems. In most situations, there will already be a plugin that will solve the issue you are facing. On top of all of this built-in flexibility, WordPress is also very easy to use. It can be picked up by beginners and used within minutes, however, it does take some time to master. WordPress allows us to create powerful websites without having to dig into computer code or deal with behind-the-scenes technicalities. Designing a website is more…

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