Guidelines from IDS Logic to Secure Your WordPress Website in 2018

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Secure Your WordPress Website

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Guidelines from IDS Logic to Secure Your WordPress Website in 2018 Security has always been the prime concern when it is about running a WordPress website. If you are the owner of a WordPress ecommerce website, then it is your sole responsibility to protect your website from the hackers. Since WordPress development is a powerful CMS platform that offers a wide range of plugins, themes and also out of the box capabilities. It is used by most people and is also the most hacked platform across the web. So, whether you are a beginner or an experienced webmaster, ensure that you adopt some of the best practices to prevent the site against any hackers.

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Choose a Quality Web Host Service Provider A quality hosting service provider will be able to provide you with the latest software, tools and services that are needed to constantly respond to the latest threats and remove any potential security breaches.

They often offer targeted security features like SSL/ TLS and DDoS protection. Not only this, they will also offer you a way to back up your website so that in case it is hacked, you can easily revert to the previous version. ============================================= www.idslogic.com


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Changing the Default Credentials

WordPress offers the users a default login name which is “admin� and this is used by mostly everyone. The first thing that you should consider in order to maintain the security of your website is to change the login details and ensure that the name or the password is very strong and is not easily guessable. To create a strong password and name, you can use tools that can generate it.

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Use Two Step Verification for the Login Screen This two-step verification will always help you to add another layer of security to the passwords. Instead of using the password only, you can enter a verification code that is generated by Google Authenticated app. This will restrict the access to people who are able to guess your WordPress password easily.

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Upgrade to HTTPS Another most important thing that WordPress experts should always consider to protect your website from the hackers is to switch your site to HTTPS. This helps to encrypt the connection between your web server and your web browser and will also keep the attackers away while you transfer any important data from one server to the other.

It will also help you to protect your site from any hidden script that is present on your computer and a script that is used to steal any data from the login forms. WordPress development has made it compulsory to have HTTPS in the websites.

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Keep Themes and Plugins Updated

WordPress development comes up with a wide range of themes and plugins that might break your site at times which is very rare. The reason may be that some plugins on your site has stopped supporting the code. So, it is very important that with every new release, you update your themes and plugins so that your site remains safe from any attackers looking for a chance to break your site.

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Change Your Wordpress Database Table Prefix

Though this may be a difficult task to change the prefix of the WordPress database table, it will keep your site well secured from the hackers. By default WordPress employs a “wp_� table prefix to all the database tables and this makes it easy for the attackers to steal data from your database by SQL injections. Changing it will make it difficult for them to guess and thereby protect the site from getting hacked.

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“With some of the best tips and tricks at your end, it will surely help to protect your WordPress website from being hacked and attacked. Following these tips will secure your site without having to spend a lot of money�.

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