WordPress is the best for Content Management System, that’s the reason hackers and spammers try to hack WordPress as it is highly exposed to risk of hacking. According to the recent records WordPress is highly targeted by the hackers if we look back in the records we will find out in the year 2012 around
1, 50,000 WordPress accounts were hacked and the number is increasing day by day.
They mainly target on the vulnerable accounts so try and make your account more secure and protected so that you may not face any trouble from hackers, here are the 5 best ways to protect your WordPress Site:-
- Use Strong Password
According to the recent reports, most of the WordPress site owners use very small and easy passwords like admin1234 or 1234 which is very easy for hackers to hack into your WordPress account. So don’t use the password which can be easily guessed by hackers, use a strong one you can also take help from strong password generator tool which will help suggest a good strong password. - Never Show Your Login Page
you all know the default page of WordPress comes like yourdomain.com/wp-admin which is very easy for hackers to hack into your account, so to avoid this use Hide Login+ plugin to hide admin login page and logout page. - Limited Login Attempts
when hacker try to hack into your account they try many attempts to login into your page, what you need to do is to keep limited attempts on your login page and save your WordPress account from hackers. - Never Use the username as “admin”
The beginner or fresher of WordPress often use their username as “admin” which is very risky as hackers can easily hacked into the account whose username is usually admin, so try another username than admin, the best part of WordPress as per reports is as soon as you install WordPress on your system it will ask you the option to select the username then and there only that will be easy for you and you can think and search for a good username. - Use Good Web Hosting
According to the reports, in WordPress 50% of WordPress is hacked because of the hosting services which you can find are quite vulnerable these days, so choose a good web hosting which should have MySQL and PHP latest version, WordPress optimized Firewall, malware scanning and a good support team which is always ready to give you the maximum security.
