Thursday, November 25, 2010

wordpress blog security


Nowadays, the trend is emerging swiftly for self hosted blogs. Certainly, WordPress is the best tool to have your own open source blog. But one of the important stumper which need proper attention is to check weather your wordpress blog is secure or not. So you must take serious steps toward your blog security, as your blog. There are several wordpress plugins that can provide you better secruity for your blog. I have collected the most popular and useful one, that can really secure your wordpress blog.


Following are some tips and plugins to make your wordpress blog secure:


1. WP security Scan plugin to diminish chances that hacker add malicious code to your blog and provide you corrective measures based on security scan findings.


2. WP Firewall is an important plugin for your blog. It will protect your blog from most noticeable attacks like SQL injection or directory traversal. As hackers are getting smarter day by day, so it is very important plugin for your to secure your blog from hackers attacks.


3. WP-Malwatch plugin provide you help to find source of infectivity to your blog site. It actually, doesn’t block any anti secure actions of hackers but alarms you with possible malware on your blog.


4. WP Secure plugin provides secure worpress installation by hiding your worpress plugin directory and version from non-admin users or visitors. Hacker normally use these information to hack a blog, so by adding this plugin you can maximize your blog security.


5. WP Guard plugin server as an additional layer of security for your blog by protecting any susceptible area of site from visitors’ easy access.


6. WP Anti spam plugin helps you to find out vicious or spam content from visitors from anywhere of blog site.


7. WP Email Protect is one of the best plugin which protects email address using javascript from spam crawlers. Generally, spam emails received from span spiders contains non-secure links which download malware to computer, if it is visited by any visitor.


8. WP DBManager is useful to protect your blog site database and provide you optimal use of your database. It provides you access for restore, repair or back up of database.


9. WP File Monitor provides you protection from unauthorized change or modification in your blog files. It sends out an email to specified email address when any alteration done your blog file directory.


As wordpress is very popular open source blog CMS, and it by default secured, however still you need to do a few tweaks to make it more secure. The above plugins are important for every wordpress blog. Try these and don’t forget to share your comments.

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