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Is there a way to lock down my WordPress site?
When it comes to WordPress security, there are a lot of things you can do to lock down your site to prevent hackers and vulnerabilities from affecting your ecommerce site or blog. The last thing you want to happen is to wake up one morning to discover your site in shambles.
What’s the best way to harden your WordPress site?
One of the most overlooked ways to harden your WordPress security is to install an SSL certificate and run your site over HTTPS. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) is a mechanism that allows your browser or web application to securely connect with a website.
How are people stealing content from your website?
People may modify your images and display them on their websites, without giving you any attribution. Stealing visual or textual content directly off your website is the most common method of content and image theft.
What’s the best way to protect your WordPress site?
Two-factor authentication, blocking IPs, restricting admin access and preventing unauthorized execution of PHP files easily takes care of common backdoor threats, which we will go into more below. Canton Becker also has a great post on cleaning up the backdoor mess on your WordPress installations.
How can I geoblock a site in WordPress?
Let’s take a look at how you can implement geoblocking on your WordPress using MalCare. Install and activate the plugin. Then go to the MalCare dashboard from the left sidebar on your wp-admin dashboard. Go to the Sites screen, and use the checkbox to select the site you want to modify.
How to restrict access to a wordpress site?
Restricted Site Access. Description. Limit access your site to visitors who are logged in or accessing the site from a set of specified IP addresses. Send restricted visitors to the log in page, redirect them, or display a message or page. A great solution for Extranets, publicly hosted Intranets, or parallel development / staging sites.
Where do I Find my login URL in WordPress?
Usually, these two should directly take you to your WordPress login page. In case this doesn’t happen, there is an additional way to reach your login page: you can add /wp-login.php at the end of the URL, like in this example: www.awesomesite.com/wp-login.php. All of this works for a standard and new WordPress installation.