Security is one of the most important
things to take care about if you are a WordPress blog owner. There are
thousands of WordPress blogs who were got hacked, the reason is simple;
WordPress is open-source so hackers just have to download and learn how to hack
it, so it is extremely important to keep your blog secure from hackers, as you
can’t say when you come to your blog and saw that your blog is hacked. So, if
you want free security for your WordPress blog than you can use a plugin called
Better WP Security, this is good in its place, however I do recommend that you
also use any premium security services
Reasons to use Better WP Security plugin:
Login Page Change:
Yes, you can easily change your blog’s
login page to anywhere else without any problems by using this plugin. The
reason to change the login location is simple, if the hacker who wants to hack
your blog is not much expert and will like to use Brut Force attack than the
hacker must first find out the login page, which you can change by using this
plugin.
And also, it would make your work easy of
login, as you can set any login URL as you want, but remember the address
carefully, if you forgot that than you have to do a lot of works.
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Lockout:
If any people or bot try to access contents
which are not available again and again than that user’s IP address will be
locked out to access your site and also you will get notification about it. As many
hackers try to find security hole on any WordPress blog to hack that so it is
important.
Invalid login data:
This is such a great feature, as if anyone
try to login to your blog with wrong data, it will keep the username which the
one were used, and it will keep till you delete the data. As you will know
which username peoples are trying to access your blog’s Dashboard so you can
keep difference between them.
Backup:
You can send backups of your blog database
to your email address in any time. You can set time to send you in every 24
hours or even 1 hour. I recommend at least set 10 hours. As keeping backup of
your blog is important so it is such a great backup tool. Also, I recommend
that you do backup on Dropbox, for better backup, better security.
Change Admin username:
If you don’t want to create new user and
your admin username than you can use this to change your username of your blog
directly, as it didn’t need to deletion and new user creation so it would be
easy for beginners of WordPress.
Login limitations:
You can also limit logins of your WordPress
login; you can set any number of tries. It can certainly stop brute force
attacks to your blog. This is also important to put if you didn’t forgot your
username password.
Change wp-content folder name:
If you want to change wp-content folder’s
name to any other than you can also do it by using this plugin. As hackers
generally first check, is the blog is on WordPress or not and one of the
easiest way is to check its media files address, so hackers can easily know
that you are using WordPress or not. However if you have a blog which was
already started than I recommend that you didn’t follow this step, better you
should move your wp-content folder to another place.
Changes notifications:
You will also get notifications on changes
taken place on your blog’s installation files, however if you are using W3
Total Cache plugin than you might receive at least one notification every day,
as it take changes on few files to build new cache files.
