5 Plugins To Increase your WordPress Security from Nothing to Everything.

Posted on 21. Jun, 2012 by Ashish in Wordpress

Without any doubt,WordPress is the best  platform for blogging. Millions of  blog have been created on WordPress platform due to its unique features and utilities. WordPress being popular and open source platform,is more likely to get targeted by hackers.So,WordPress Security is important,although It offers great inbuilt security and reliability but still to ensure maximum security you  have to do something.

In order to minimize these attacks, there are some good WordPress security plugins available which can be a very useful to prevent your  WordPress blog from  hacking.

 5 Plugins to Increase your WordPress Security.

1. WP Security Scan

It is an excellent and  highly popular plugin which scans your whole WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and provides  effective measures to correct them.The corrective actions include Database security,WordPress admin security,hides your WP version,password protection,File protection and much more.It also removes WP Generator META tag from core code.

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2.Antivirus for WordPress

Antivirus for WordPress  is very safe and easy to use security plugin which allows you to scan your theme for malware infections.It scans your template files daily and can notify via email on suspected cases.It also notify about the Virus alert in the admin bar.

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3.Login LockDown

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed WordPress login attempt.If more than certain number  of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.Plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes.

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4.Secure WordPress

It is an excellent plugin which beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version and much more.Secure WordPress also perform many features  like

• Removes plugin-update,theme-update information for non-admins
• Removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
• Removes Really Simple Discovery
• Removes Windows Live Writer
• Adds index.php plugin-directory
• Blocks unwanted queries that could be harmful to your WordPress blog.

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5.BulletProof Security

This plugin protects your WordPress website  from  XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking attempts. One-click .htaccess WordPress security protection.Protects wp-config.php, bb-config.php, php.ini, php5.ini, install.php and readme.html with .htaccess security protection.BulletProof  Security also protects both your Root website folder and wp-admin folder with .htaccess website security protection, as well as providing additional website security protection.The BulletProof Security WordPress Security plugin is  fast, simple and  easy to use.

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Bonus Plugin- Apart from using these 5  WordPress security plugins you  must also backup your database regularly.Use WP-DBManager  plugin to backup your blog.

WP-DBManager

This plugin allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. This plugin is very important in cases like server error or someone hacked your blog.It  can be used to backup the server related information for your account.It also supports automatic scheduling of backing up and  than sending it to your email ID.

Hope you will find this article very useful to increase  your WordPress Security.which plugin you use to secure your WordPress site ?

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Ashish panjwani is a young and passionate blogger from India,who's passion is helping others achieve success.He writes about Blogging, Technology, WordPress and social media etc. Google

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