In order to ensure that your blog is safe from prying eyes, we are running this security check series. We’ve already discussed some of the basic stuff and today we are going to ensure that the file & directory permissions should be right. In this guide we’ll fix the CHMOD of various important files and folders of your blog.
In the world of computers and Internet, things get old pretty fast and that is one of the reason why we see WordPress software getting lot of updates frequently. This makes sure that WordPress not only stays safe from vulnerabilities but also gives you latest features that play major role in your blog’s success. We’ve been regular readers of various blogs about blogging and all these gurus suggest the same, why is that? They all understand the security concerns associated with WordPress and how one can stay peacefully after the upgrade.
After we’ve ensured that Secret Key is at its desired place, we can think about securing the password of the blog too. Strong password is really necessary these days as there are various ways through which hackers, tend to break the password and get unauthorized access to important and sensitive information. Brute-Force, Dictionary attack are some of the few methods of gaining the unauthorized access with the help of automated password attempts. If your password has the following elements, then I’m sure it’ll be considered as a strong password -
It’s always said that if something is a boon, it will also carry some negative points. WordPress is popular; this is a boon to every WordPress user as this popularity ensures that there is active development around it. WordPress is popular; this is a bane to every WordPress user as it gets frequently attacked by hackers and nasty people. In this series, we’ll try to make WordPress as secure as one can. In this post, we’ll define secret key for WordPress and we’ll later move to advanced techniques to achieve more desired results -
While my love for blogging in public is increasing as I don’t have any choice either (I don’t have internet connection in mumbai as I’m a here for few days only), I’m finding small things that can make difference in a blog and can improve the blog too. Because, I don’t get access to the internet at all the times, I’m forced to use Google Reader’s offline feature (by the way, this is one feature that is proving to be a boon to me) and while I was trying to compose a post, I realized that the actual permalink of the post was not shown in the Google Reader and it showed something like this -
Our beloved reader, Human3rror asked a question and I thought that it would be great to write a blog post on the same topic and instead of just letting the question die in comments. The answer to Human3rror’s question is that I use PlanetOZH’s Better Feed plugin and I believe that by far it’s one of the most powerful feed footer plugin available for WordPress.
I’ve always appreciated the efforts of WP Security Scan, however there are few things that need to be updated in that plugin so that it offers a complete security plugin package. There are various threats on the internet when it comes to using a script like WordPress or any other blogging software script. SQL Injection, Cross site scripting are some of the dangers that we can instantly think of as soon as we talk about securing scripts.
