{"id":534,"date":"2017-11-22T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-02-14T22:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T22:47:37","slug":"tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips on how to protect your WordPress website in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is an Article by Hamed Pour, www.owdt.com on WordPress Security<\/p>\n<p>See the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/owdt.com\/8-tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/owdt.com\/8-tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why WordPress is dominant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WordPress, launched in 2003, has become the most widely used full content management system in the world. It is an open source, community-based system and therefore entirely free.<\/p>\n<p>Ever-improving template options, plug-ins, SEO capability and client portal functionality have been essential to its success, making it competitive with the best proprietary options. Also contributing to its widespread use\u2013bloggers and social media managers are able to host and moderate blogs from a single dashboard using WordPress\u2019s editing tools, permalink structure and integration of HTML.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-slot=\"3379014842\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8934562929349122\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><strong>How to protect your WordPress website against hackers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your WordPress database is the brain of your website, storing ALL of its information. Unfortunately, this makes it a favorite target for hackers who can easily send malicious code using JavaScript injecting SQL targeting your wp_ based tables.<\/p>\n<p>Many users either forget or aren\u2019t aware that they must change the database prefix when installing WordPress. If they don\u2019t, they\u2019re leaving the door wide open for hackers to change their database prefix, giving them access to launch an attack.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent this, take the following several steps to change the WordPress database prefix\u2013<br \/>\n\uf111If you already have a WordPress site, either view your config.php file or go to phpMyAdmin in cPanel to check your tables\u2019 names.<br \/>\n\uf111Make a \/\/ entry in config.php that displays the WordPress table prefix used in the installation<\/p>\n<p>$table_prefix = \u2018wp_\u2019; \/\/. Use only numbers, letters, and underscores!<\/p>\n<p>To make your WordPress site even more secure, change the prefix to something that is difficult to guess. Pick something like a hard-to-crack password, one limited only to numbers, letters, and\/or underscores.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is Philipp Heinze\u2019s plugin \u201cwp prefix changer\u201d that he created for BlogSecurity.net. However, I prefer the manual approach described above, which I\u2019ve successfully applied to two blogs.<\/p>\n<p>If your prefix is simply wp_, I highly recommend taking the next six steps that I recently tested with a WordPress 2.8 installation\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Make a backup<\/p>\n<p>2. Edit your wp-config.php file and make changes, as follows-<\/p>\n<p>3. Change all your WordPress table names<\/p>\n<p>4. Edit wp_options<\/p>\n<p>5. Edit wp_usermeta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/owdt.com\/8-tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/owdt.com\/8-tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Useful Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudwards.net\/how-to-backup-wordpress-blog-website\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.cloudwards.net\/how-to-backup-wordpress-blog-website\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an Article by Hamed Pour, www.owdt.com on WordPress Security See the full article here: https:\/\/owdt.com\/8-tips-on-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-website-in-2017\/ Why WordPress is dominant WordPress, launched in 2003, has become the most widely used full content management system&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}