071 – 8 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Site
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8 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Site
- Remove the admin user
- Use a strong password
- Always update WordPress ASAP
- Remove WordPress version number
- Change file permissions
- Backup your database
- Hide your WordPress plugins
- Have a plan in place to restore from backup
Code to remove WordPress Version Number:
remove_action(wp_head, wp_generator);
Great podcast, found you from podcastanswerman very nice!!! I really want to ask a question, but for the life of me I can’t find out how to submit one here. I will keep looking. Thanks!
Apr 11, 2012Ooops, found it on your Contact Form. Duh
Apr 11, 2012I thought I checked all of your pages and didn’t see it on your contact form. Sorry!
I really am not a novice! Lol
@Bryan_Knowlton Glad you found it 🙂
Apr 12, 2012In the sea of podcasts, yours is a beacon of light helping those of us with WordPress sites and guiding us through!! God bless you!! Love the show!!
Apr 13, 2012@thepmpodcast Thanks! Glad you find the show helpful 🙂 If you ever have a specific question, please let me know!
Apr 14, 2012This podcast came just in just after one of the servers got hacked that a customers site is hosted on. All the index.php files were replaced and the users removed from the database. I am now going through each site i have done adding these security ideas as it was a pain to get it back. Great show again Dustin!
Apr 17, 2012@stefangr Crazy how this podcast was released right after you got hacked. It’s always worth a little extra time to set up a secure site then to fix it when it gets hacked. In my experience, I’ve never been hacked on a day that I have nothing going on. It’s usually the day that I am completely booked and don’t have time to mess with my (or a customer’s) site.
Apr 17, 2012I was searching online and found this code
function wpbeginner_remove_version() {
return ”;
}
add_filter(‘the_generator’, ‘wpbeginner_remove_version’);
that seems to be an updated version of what you have above. How can I tell if the code has successfully worked?
May 8, 2015