how to Secure your WordPress Blog from Hackers

#1 : Install Security Plugins

WordPress offers plugins can help you to secure your wordpress blog. There are a lot of good security WordPress plugins available. Here i listed of some plugins that i personaly prefer

1. Wordfence Security
2. BulletProof Security
3. iThemes Security
4. Acunetix WP Security

We suggest these plugins due to their good practices but you must also check and install each plugin to know that which pluginis best for you. 

#2 : Delete the  “admin” username

“admin” is the default username alloted to you when you created your wordpress blog. Most of the users either forget to change it or did not feel important to change it. so this give an easy option to hackers to guest the username. So, Delete the user account with the name “admin” , If your blog didn’t have one, you should change your username with  a difficult one to secure your wordpress blog

#3 : Use Strong Passwords

Password is the thing which hackers can guess easily. Hackers uses  many softwares to test your password easily.  i suggest you to don’t use your real name or any other words in any language as your password. another thing that you your should not forgot that a strong password uses  Upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers and symbols .

Every one will think that, Hackers can’t hack your blog by making their pet’s or relatives name  as password. But, this make easy for Hackers to hack your blog easily. i suggest you to use a Password Generator to make strong and secure passwords.

#4 :: Keep all WordPress Stuffs up-to-date

Every one say that WordPress is a secure platform. But, why hackers can easily hack wordpress blog easily. It is due to one reason. WordPress is not secure if you didn’t update wordpress in time. Hackers can  find loop holes in your site through outdated files, themes and plugins.

#5 So, one should regularly  update WordPress version, All plugins, themes in time. Use Secured Hosting

cheap quality of your Web hosting provider is a major reason for wordpress hacking. so please avoid using a FREE hosting provider or a cheap quality hosting provider that didn’t have SSL certificates.

Your WordPress hosting provider should have these things,

• Support for the latest PHP and MySQL versions
• Account isolation
• Web Application Firewall
• Intrusion detecting system

#6: Install Limit Login Attempts Plugin

Limit Login Attempts is the plugin i installed from the first day on my blogs. It is very important to secure your wordpress blog. This plugin will limit the number of login attempts.  ist make very difficult task for hacker to hack your blog.

#7: Don’t use Nulled WordPress themes or plugins

This is another mistake every newbies do. They search for “premium theme free download” on Google and download nulled copies from some sites. Nulled theme or plugins contains scripts that contain malware. this will make your blog in danger. So, i recommend you to never ever use any nulled themes and plugins.

Conclusion

I hope this article has already help you to secure your wordpress blog . You should follow these tips to make your wordpress blog secure. and dont forget to take backups every day.